2015 extreme drought, no delivery for 3 rd year in a row
2015 Forsgren rate study proposes to pay the pipe project on the customers’ dime. The idea is that irrigation water will cost 10 times more than it does now.
2015 at a YWA regional water management meeting Maupin asks for financial support for a 36” pipe.
2016, partial delivery
2016 contract with NorthStar for 36" pipe, with 24 CFS. With grants. Looking to utilize only 3700 AF of free water.
2016 Fletcher gets elected on a platform of dealing with illegal marijuana grows, wants to run the growers out of town. Weckman supports him all the way.
November 2016, Hawthorne, Neilson elected
2017 full delivery, El Nino year. Deluge.
May 2017 Fletcher suggested to Forguson to send Maupin to the ACWA conference so he can meet potential customers that want to buy water from us.
2017 Board receives power revenue, spends $2 million on loan payments, trucks and tractors.
In September of 2017, NYWD was awarded a $500,000 planning grant for the Forbestown Ditch Pipeline project from the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB).
2018 no irrigation water for no discernible reason.
November of 2018, the voters of Division 4 elected Gretchen Flohr for Division 3. January 2019 Gretchen asks to see the pipeline plans. March 2019, Gretchen Flohr sues the NYWD.
2019 partial delivery
2019 SWRCB concludes investigation, "no intentional misinformation" on grant application. No repercussions.
April 11, 2019, NYWD Chair Eric Hansard sent a letter to the Yuba Water Agency (YWA) Planning and Development Committee (POD committee) requesting a 50/50 grant/loan so that construction of the FTD Pipeline Project could begin.
May 24, 2019, YWA responded requesting that NYWD prepare a complete project description, provide a construction schedule and a project budget estimate.
May 29, 2019, South Feather Water and Power General Manager Rath Mosely sent an invitation to the Directors of the water district inviting them to form an advisory committee to "enhance communication on the current 2005 agreement/partnership..."
June of 2019, the $500,000 SWRCB grant expired and there could be no further billing for the project. At that point, NYWD still had $165,725 remaining in the grant budget, which could have been billed but wasn't.
July 11, 2019, a meeting was held at YWA offices in Marysville California. Participating, or associated with this meeting, were Jeff Maupin, the NYWD GM, YWA, NorthStar Engineering, US Department of Agriculture Rural Development (USDA), and Water Boards representatives. At this meeting, a plan was discussed to designate the USDA as the Lead Agency for the FTD Pipeline project.
August 2, 2019, YWA published an agenda for their next POD meeting that listed an agenda item to grant NYWD $225,725. NYWD had requested $225,725 because they could not access the remaining grant monies from SWRCB. This agenda item raised some concerns with YWA and, by Friday evening, the agenda item had been removed. August 13, 2019, Manager Maupin called a special NYWD Board meeting for a single agenda item: Resolution 19-733 - re General Manager Authority to Execute Grant Applications.
2019 August pipeline plans for the Forbestown Ditch piping project are published.v The agenda for February 27, 2020, regular NYWD Board was a notice: Public Hearing: Consideration to revise the Director's Divisions as provided under Elections Code section 2200 base on the revised District boundary line.
February 27, 2020, meeting, two large maps were propped against the Board table showing the new division boundaries.
On March 11, 2020, a special NYWD Board meeting was called at 8 am to adopt: Resolution 20-743: Establish Director Boundaries and Identification Number of Each Division. The motion passed with Directors Hansard, Neilson, Hawthorne, and Brown voting for and Director Flohr voting against. On March 26, 2020, the NYWD submitted an application to LAFCO to detach the 400-odd parcels that overlapped with BVID's service area.
On April 28, 2020, a lawsuit was filed by attorney Paul Boylan on behalf of Charles Sharp with eight causes of action sections.
2020 partial delivery
On May 6, LAFCO convened a regular meeting. On the agenda was: LAFCO File No. 2020-0002-North Yuba Water District Detachment.
On Friday, May 29, 2020, at a special LAFCO meeting, Chaired by Andy Vasquez, he and all the commissioners present, voted to accept the detachment. LAFCO then scheduled a "Protest Hearing" for June 29, 2021. On June 30, the NYWD presented to the Yuba County Elections Department the division map that had been used in the previous election.
November 2020, Andy Hill wins Division 1 seat.
January 2021 Andy Hill attends one meeting and quits. Doug Neilson is appointed to the Division 1 seat. March 2021 no delivery announced because of reasons and drier than 2018.
April 2021 Marieke et al sue.
May 2021 temporary injunction denied.
Summer 2021 Provost and Pritchard will study the feasibility to sell water out of the District.
August 27, 2021, Gretchen Flohr resigns from Division 4.
September 15, 2021, Donnie Forguson gets appointed to Division 4.
September 24, 2021, A Board meeting there is talk of irrigation as a "waste of money and water” and "we are not obliged to deliver” and " bring back the rate hike” and "we will vote after we see the cost-benefit analysis. General Manager has given instructions to prepare a report on the cost of providing irrigation water.
October 22, 2021, It was decided not to have meetings in November or December. The general manager gets a raise. Doug Neilson again talks about how the district is not an irrigation district. The decision not to have in-person meetings for the foreseeable future. The General Manager said he had not had time to formulate a report on the cost of service to the irrigation customers.
November 2, 2021, North Yuba Water District applies for Grant from the Yuba Water Agency for $104,000 to pay for consultants Provost & Pritchard to research water markets to sell water outside of the District's boundaries. Item is on the YWA November 2, 2021, Board agenda.
list of items posted on North Yuba Water District public record documents