Salton Sea Summit 2019

1. 1. Salton Sea & the Colorado River

1.1. Colorado River Overview and Current Status

1.2. Arizona and the threat of shortage

1.3. SDCWA & the QSA

1.4. IID & the need for storage, Agricultural-to-Urban Water Conservation Transfers

2. 2. Hydrology

2.1. Recent & projected inflows

2.2. Modeling inflows

2.3. Water Quality

3. 3. Ecology

3.1. Salton Sea Fish

3.2. Shoreline Habitats & bird species richness

3.3. General avian use trends

3.4. Avian mortality

4. 4. Air Quality & Health

4.1. Regional air quality & dust sources

4.2. Current & potential playa emissions

4.3. Toxics/chemical composition in playa dust

4.4. Public Health Impacts

5. 5. Dust Control Projects & Planning

5.1. Owens Lake dust mitigation program

5.2. Imperial County APCD rules 7 regulations

5.3. QSA JPA/IID dust control projects

5.4. SSMP dust control projects

6. 6. State & local activities

6.1. Salton Sea Management Program

6.2. Red Hill Bay Project

6.3. North Lake project

6.4. SSMP Science Oversight, Monitoring and adaptive management

7. 7. Politics, Policy, and Purse-strings

7.1. Imperial County

7.2. IID

7.3. Salton Sea Authority

7.4. NGO-Comite

7.5. California Natural Resources Agency

7.6. US Bureau of Reclamation

8. Closing Remarks