Foothill Water Coalition - Public Records

Contact the Foothill Water Coalition: contact@foothillwatercoalition.org

The information gathered here comes from a number of Public Record Act requests and other sources.

• READ DOCUMENT - False Narrative Transcript - Transcript of a statement by South Feather's Legal Counsel at South Feather Water and Power Board Agency meeting on 9/24/24. South Feather's Legal Counsel is with the law firm Minasian Law.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Net Revenue $6,705,130 payout - This documents the $6.7 million payout to North Yuba Water District realized through increased hydropower production, short term water transfer, internal budget management and controls.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Regional Water System Map - This map shows the routes water takes to reach the irrigation customers in Oregon House.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - A Brief History of the North Yuba Water District - A Brief History of the North Yuba Water District as of September 7, 2024
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter written by Peter Jansen to Marieke Furnee - Letter demanding that Marieke Furnee cease making misrepresenting statements about Mr. Sharp.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Settlement Letter to NYWD from FPPC - This settlement letter from the FPPC to the North Yuba Water District offers the District to settle complaints circa 2020 about how the District used their publicist Crystal Martin to promote incumbent Directors for re-election and offering to settle for $22,000. At its 7/25/24 board meeting, the District voted to pay the $22,000.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - North Yuba Water District Domestic Water Lines - This map shows the domestic water lines for the North Yuba Water District. The highest available fire flow pressure is in the north near Forbestown, where the treatment plant is. The western most point is near Rackerby. The southern most point is in the vicinity of New York House Rd.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Forfeited water rights letter from South Feather - This is a letter from South Feather's legal counsel Minasian Law which says that North Yuba has forfeited its rights to the Block 3 water and Resolution 24-778 should be amended to reflect that NYWD's conservation projects have not resulted in conserved water.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Gannet Fleming Consulting Services Cost Breakdown - This report covers the cost breakdown for improvements to the Forbestown Ditch.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - 2024 Forbestown Ditch Walkdown summary - This report, produced on March 13, 2024, by the engineering firm Gannett Fleming who the North Yuba Water District has hired to provide recommendations on how to improve the Forbestown Ditch. This report was not included in the North Yuba Water District's March 28th meeting. However, it was provided to the Yuba Water Agency Directors for their April 2nd meeting. At this meeting, the North Yuba Water District was requesting a grant for $865,410 to address "critical need" improvements to the Forbestown Ditch. Transparency this is not.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - North Yuba Water District Draft Irrigation Policy - The North Yuba Water District Draft Irrigation Policy was intended to have been voted on at the February meeting but was delayed until March. There are some substantial changes. This policy would require water to proportionally run with the land for any parcel subdivision. The District has never required this before. Can the District mandate this? This policy would allow the District to curtail water to ponds if the District deemed there was a "water shortage". The term water shortage is ambiguous and could be whatever the District deemed it to be. This policy states that water is not for fire protection. However, Permit 1270 for water from Dry Creek contradicts this policy by expressly allowing water "for the purpose of irrigation and fire protection use."
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Rich Johansen, NID: Unimpaired flow proposal concerns - Nevada Irrigation District Board President Rich Johansen penned this op-ed regarding the 55 percent unimpaired flow criteria being considered by State Resources Water Resources Control Board as part of the Bay-Delta water supply system. Nevada Irrigation District system is similar to South Feather Water and Power Agency's system and the same water delivery principles and concerns apply to both systems.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - FPPC Complaint Filed against Crystal Martin on 4/24/23 - Formal Complaint Against Crystal Martin dba Smart Marketing & Public Affairs and Gary Hawthorne in Connection With Their Work for North Yuba Water District.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather CEQA Comment Letter Unipaired Flows - South Feather's letter to the State Water Resources Control Board outlining why the 55% unimpaired flow would not work. Regarding Nevada Irrigation District (NID), South Feather and NID share common characteristics, including treated and agricultural deliveries, hydroelectric power projects, reservoirs and recreational facilities. Under a 2005 Agreement with neighboring North Yuba Water District, South Feather facilities store and deliver water to North Yuba for its treated water and irrigation systems.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Hydroelectric Power Producers Comment Re Bay Delta 55% unimpaired flow - Comment made to State Water Resources Control Board regarding 55% unimpaired flow requirements by Hydroelectric Power Producers including SMUD, PCWA, Nevada Irrigation District, South Feather Water & Power, Yuba Water Agency, South Sutter Water District, and California Municipal Utilities.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Rulik Perla Letter to Editor in support of Charlie Mathews - Dr. Rulik Perla writes a Letter to the Editor of the Appeal-Democrat in support of re-electing Charlie Mathews as the Director for the northern area of the Yuba Water Agency. He ends with, "He [Mathews] is what all Yuba County people need right now, and for as long as he is willing to serve. There are also some comments about challenger Randy Fletcher.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather 1/23/24 Board Packet Excerpt - An excerpt from South Feather's 1/23/24 Meeting Board Packet showing a previous meeting comment made by Alton Wright to South Feather regarding an October 16, 2023, letter sent to CALAFCo. Included is a transcript from Tod Hickman of his comment to CALAFCo provided to South Feather's General Manager.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter to California LAFCO (Addendum) - Addendum to the letter of October 16, 2023, to The California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions regarding the North Yuba Water District regarding use of un-permitted water should the SWRCB curtail water permits for the North Yuba Water District restricting water to 2,700 acre-feet.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter to California LAFCO - Letter of October 16, 2023, to The California Association of Local Agency Formation Commissions regarding the North Yuba Water District.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - How the Forbestown Ditch could achieve 50 CFS - South Feather General Manager outlines approach to improving the Forbestown Ditch that could achieve 50 CFS for a cost (as of Fall 2020) of $2.8 million.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - 2005 agreement does not benefit either district - In this May 2022 correspondence, South Feather General Manager writes to the Yuba Water Agency General Manager that, "we have a 2005 agreement that does not seem to benefit either district".
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD December 21, 2023 Board Meeting Video - Link to the December 21, 2023 Board Meeting Video. At the 34 minute mark, the Board recesses for a closed session and some audience discussion can be heard in the background. 12-21-23 Board Meeting Video
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD Response to Butte County LAFCO - Letter from North Yuba Water District to Butte County LAFCO regarding their December 7, 2023, meeting and presentation to dissolve North Yuba Water District.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Crystal Martin Deposition - Crystal Martin Deposition taken on January 18, 2023.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - SWRCB Petition Time Extension - The most recent copy of the response to NYWD's request for a permit extension (Exhibit E) shows that SWRCB is readying to convert Permit 11518 to a license and restricting use to 2,700 AF while granting one last extension for Permit 11516.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Division 1 Director Application Letter from Michael Mayo - Letter to the North Yuba Water District Board from Michael Mayo regarding applying for the Division 1 open seat.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Permit 1270 - Dry Creek
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Permit 11516 - Slate Creek
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Permit 11518 - South Fork Feather River, Lost Creek, Feather River.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Water Rights Summary - GM Tully - Summary of the report produced on August 23, 2023, by GM Tully, the attorney the NYWD hired to research the District's Water Rights.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Needs Assessment for A Foothill Food-Source - This report presents the findings of a Needs Assessment for a Foothill food-system, sponsored by Yuba County.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Notice of Exemption for Stout Flume Replacement - The justification for a Categorial Exemption is 15302(c) Replacement and Reconstruction. This is not a replacement or reconstruction of the existing wood flume. The NYWD is making a false statement of fact. It is a deconstruction of the wooden flume and installing a completely new 42" concrete siphon pipe. Curious that the statement was filed by the Interim General Manager one day before the board voted on the exemption.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Hell 4 Flume Pipeline Replacement - The project drawings and engieerning report from Gannett Fleming.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Agenda item from North Yuba Water District for $200K more to build a 30 CFS siphon to replace Hell 4 Stout flume - Yuba Water Agency September 19, 2023 agenda item to consider increasing the grant funding request from the North Yuba Water District for the Hell 4 Stout wooden flume replacement with a siphon to increase the grant from $400,000 to $ 600,000.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Grant application made to the Yuba Water Agency for $400K to build a 30 CFS siphon to replace Hell 4 Stout flume - This is the grant application made to the Yuba Water Agency by the North Yuba Water District for $400 000 to build a siphon to replace the aging Hell 4 Stout wooden flume. It states "The 100yr old wooden flume (126’long 6’wide and 40’ tall) will be analyzed to determine the feasibility performance characteristics and costs of replacing the existing flume with a Syphon."
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Summary of the site visit to the Hell 4 Stout flume on July 31 - This email was sent to Leona Harris (North Yuba Water District interim General Manager) from Michelle Karlen at Gannett Fleming. It summarizes the site visit to the Hell 4 Stout flume on July 31 2023. It says: "...we recommend that NYWD forego the formal alternatives analysis and move towards engineering design and construction of a buried inverted siphon to replace the existing timber flume."
   
• READ DOCUMENT - PRA Response to GM Tully request - This is the NYWD's response to a Public Records Act request for any documents from the District's water attorney GM Tully. He was in attendance to a Special Meeting on August 10 2023
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Resolution 23-776 - Code of Conduct Resolution passed in February 2023 regarding Director's behavior consequences for violating said rules.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Summary of NYWD Water Permits Understanding - In early 2019 soon after being elected to the NYWD Board Dr. Gretchen Flohr visited the State Water Resources Control Board in Sacramento to better understand the NYWDS's permits. This the summary of what she found out.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Curt Aikens Slate Creek Correspondence - In February 2014 Yuba Water Agency (then Yuba County Water Agency) General Manager sent an email to South Feather's General Manager Mike Glaze requesting the Slate Creek Power Tunnel be closed due to severe drought at the time. This would stop water from Slate Creek from being diverted through this tunnel.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Water Tanks Location Diagram - This map shows where water tanks for better fire protection might be placed in Oregon House and Dobbins so that they can be gravity fed by water from the irrigation canal system. These tanks would be full year round.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Crystal Martin FPPC Complaint - This complaint was filed against Crytal Martin and former North Yuba Water District Director Gary Hawthorne for the illegal mass mailing newsletter inclumbent Hawthorne instructed Crytal to send out to discredit opponents and get himself relected to the North Yuba Water District and to the Dobbins/Oregon House Fire Protection District. His bid to be re-elected failed by a large margin in both cases.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - FSC Fuels Reduction Project Right of Entry Form - The Fire Safe Council wants property owners in the fuels reduction project area, which includes a number of major roads in the Oregon House and Dobbins area to sign this RIGHT TO ENTRY FORM. By signing this form a landowner would be giving the foresters and contractors the right to come onto your property at will and start cutting trees and applying a herbicide 150 feet from the centerline of the road. See Yuba Roadside Fuel Treatment Project
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Fire Safe Council Project Map - Map showing the roads in Oregon House and Dobbins to be cleared 150 feet on either side as part of the fuel reduction project funded by the Yuba Water Agency.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Fire Safe Council Application to YWA. The application document the Fire Safe Council made to the Yuba Water Agency to procure grant funding from the fuels reduction project in Oregon House and Dobbins.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter from Donna Corson - A letter to the Dobbins/Oregon House Fire Protection District from Donna Corson regarding Gary Hawthorne
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter from South Feather's Legal Counsel Dustin Cooper - Letter from South Feather's Legal Counsel Dustin Cooper explaining in great detail how the Directors of the North Yuba Water District violated the Brown Act in their zeal to provide General Manager Jeff Maupin and outrageous severance package. In the likely event, these resolutions are challenged, they will not stand.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter from Wanger Jones Helsley PC - Letter from Wanger Jones Helsley PC regarding Demand to Correct Brown Act Violations Related Actions Concerning Maupin Employment; and Demand to Declare NYWD Division 3 Vacancy.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter of resignation from Michael Vergara - Letter of resignation from Michael Vergara (now former Legal Counsel for the North Yuba Water District) when he realizes his time is up. No Directors are members of the Fellowship of Friends as Mr. Vergara erroneously believes.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD Fall 2022 Newsletter - North Yuba Water District Fall 2022 newsletter which was mass-mailed at public expense to the NYWD voters and customers. California law forbids public officials to use public resources to enhance their visibility and name identification with potential voters. The newsletter a) names candidates opposing NYWD's President/Chair Gary Hawthorne and b) puts them in an unfavorable light by listing how much they have cost the District in PRA requests.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Irrigation and Hydro-Electric Potentialities 1953 - This report details how the Foothills of Yuba County could be served by irrigation water.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Westlands Water District PRA - Westlands Water District Public Record Act response - copies of all communication and correspondence with NYWD regarding the proposed water transfer/sale in 2022. From Jan 2022 until present...Please include any correspondence on NYWD's behalf, written by Michael Vergara, or Crystal Martin.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Brueggeman 460 Report 7-1-22 - 460 Report for the Protect our water rights! Committee to support Gary Hawthorne; Ginger Hughes; Doug Neilson; and Chris Cross for North Yuba Water District Directors 2022
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Brueggeman 460 Report 7-1-22 - 460 Report for the Protect our water rights! Committee to support Gary Hawthorne; Ginger Hughes; Doug Neilson; and Chris Cross for North Yuba Water District Directors 2022 - In this report Randy Fletcher donates $500
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Marieke Furnee Guest View Appeal-Democrat - Guest View: NYWD’s denial of irrigation delivery was based on false premises by Marieke Furnee
   
• READ DOCUMENT - 2022 Diversion Dam Flow Rate Data - Flow rate measurments provided by the North Yuba Water District supporting Marieke Furnee's conclusion, Now that we have seen the numbers on paper, it sure looks like the lack of water delivery, while harming people's livelihoods, was not due to a lack of water.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Supervisor elect Jon Messick endorses candidates - Supervisor elect Jon Messick endorses Ronneberg & Furnee & Wright & Plumb or Napierski as Directors for the North Yuba Water District
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD seeks water transfer sales - by Robert Summa, Appeal Democrat. - North Yuba Water District and its general manager sent a request to another regional water agency to help facilitate the transfer of as much as 15,000 acre-feet of water following a previous denial of water to its irrigation customers for the year.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter to the Editor: Re: North Yuba Water District - Steven Dambeck's letter to the editor about voting
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Manager Maupin's letter to Wade Crowfoot on 7/28/22 - On July 28 North Yuba Water District General Manager Jeff Maupin sent a letter to the California Natural Resources Agencyd Director Wade Crowfoot requesting an exemption from CEQA reporting requirements for piping the Forbestown Ditch. This letter was sent in secret and was only found by accident during a search on Google.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD Petition to the State for water sales.

  North Yuba Water District Petition to the Division of Water Rights to change Permit 11518 so the District can sell water to other water agencies.

  North Yuba Water District (NYWD) proposes to transfer up to 15,000 acre-feet (AF) of water pursuant to Water Code section 1725 et seq., under water right Permit 11518. NYWD proposes to transfer water from the date of approval of this petition through November 2022. This 15,000 acre-feet (AF) of water is currently stored in South Feather Water & Power Agency's (SFWPA) Little Grass Valley Reservoir and Sly Creek Reservoir.

  Of this 15,000 AF, NYWD proposes to transfer 10,000 AF to (1) Westlands Water District, (2) Eagle Fields Water District, (3) Mercy Springs Water District, (4) Panache Water District, (5) Pacheco Water District, and (6) San Luis Water District. It further proposes to transfer 5,000 AF to Byron-Bethany Irrigation District.

• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD Division Map - North Yuba Water District Division Map filed on July 20, 2021.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Summary of NYWD Permits and License Applications
   

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• READ DOCUMENT - Response to September 2 - In response to NYWD's September 2 letter
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Requests - South Feather Requests responses
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Requests - Did not request preliminary monthly accounting
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Requests - Provide remaining requests by August 1
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Requests - $37500 check payable to General Fund
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Requests - $37500 check to JFOA not General Fund
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Requests - Check addressed to General Fund
   

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• READ DOCUMENT - County Elections 2022 Election Statement - Email from Yuba County Elections Officer Donna Hillegass stating who is up for elections on the North Yuba Water District Board for November 2022 which includes Doug Neilson, Fred Mitchell now replaced by Chris Cross, Ginger Hughes, and Donald Forguson.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Requests - Did not request preliminary monthly accounting
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD irrigation customers left dry: South Feather offers to supply water as NYWD stalls In a continued pattern of apparent mismanagement and what critics call a complete disregard for its customers, North Yuba Water District was presented with a plan by other water agencies to help supply water to its irrigation customers but is holding off on the deal until its demands are met. - by Appeal Democrat Editor Robert Summa, July 2, 2022
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD GM cancels meeting about irrigation customers - Following a decision by North Yuba Water District General Manager Jeff Maupin and the district's board to not have a 2022 irrigation season for its customers in the foothills, a meeting to discuss possible solutions was dismissed recently by Maupin due to advice by legal counsel - by Appeal Democrat Editor Robert Summa, June 9, 2022
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Forbestown Ditch has conveyed 40-50 CFS - Rath Moseley, the General Manager of South Feather says it is his undertanding that in the 40's and 50's, the Forbestown Ditch conveyed 40 to 50 CFS.
   
• SEE VIDEO - Water Crisis In Yuba County Has Farmers Crying Foul Over Water District - Sacramento Channel 13 aired a video on the plight of farmers due to water withheld by the North Yuba Water District.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Inquiry by Foothill Water Coalition to South Feather. - South Feather's March 16, 2022, reply regarding the Foothill Water Coalition's inquiry into purchasing raw water from South Feather.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Group seeks help getting water - NYWD customers ask South Feather to directly sell irrigation waterby Appeal Democrat Editor Robert Summa, May 10, 2022.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Water customers demand answers - Protestors unhappy with direction of NYWD by Appeal Democrat Editor Robert Summa, April 22, 2022.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - NYWD: No 2022 irrigation season by Appeal Democrat Editor Robert Summa, April 15, 2022.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - "It's willful neglect", A look at the North Yuba Water District and alleged mismanagement by Appeal Democrat Editor Robert Summa, April 1, 2022.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Document chain regarding water sale offer.
  This is a consolidation of the correspondence between South Feather and the Foothill Water Coalition culminating in the offer from South Feather to sell raw water to the FWC for $39 an acre-foot.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter from South Feather to NYWD
  Letter from South Feather Water and Power Agency General Manager on March 3 to North Yuba Water's General Manager regarding South Feather's needing 7.0 - 7.5 cfs for South Feather.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter from NYWD to South Feather
  Letter from NYWD General Manager on March 24 to South Feather regarding 7 cfs flow for South Feather.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Bookman-Edmonston report prepared for the Yuba Water Agency
  The Bookman-Edmonston report prepared for the Yuba Water Agency (then the Yuba County Water Agency) circa 2000 regarding Water Demands and Conveyance Requirements Yuba County Water District (now the North Yuba Water District).
   
• READ DOCUMENT - 2022 Statement of water availability to the North Yuba Water District by South Feather Water & Power Agency
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Irrigation policy revisions for 2022 making the following revisions to the old policy:
  1. Gives General Manager unilateral authority to deny any customer irrigation water based on his opinion of their water use.
  2. Will allow denying water to the largest water users, starting the Fellowship of Friends, forming a "line" where NYWD puts the smallest water users at the front.
  3. Will label ponds a waste of water and a means to denial of service.
  4. Will allow the General Manager uninvited access onto irrigation customer's private property.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Water System Improvements Preliminary Engineering Report, March 28, 2018.
   
READ DOCUMENT - Third amendment to the 2005 water sharing agreement with South Feather
Summary - The third admendment, signed by Donnie Forguson, says that "Advance consent of SFWPA's board of directors is required for any sale of water..."
 
• READ DOCUMENT - Public comment to Yuba Water Agency by Marieke Furnee
  Summary - Marieke Furnee made this comment to the Yuba Water Agency Directors at the January 18, 2022, Board meeting.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter From NYWD General Manager about water service
  Summary - In letter dated 9/12/2013, General Manager Maupin responds to question about water service in which in says that "The District does not provide water to any customers under contract..."
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Correspondence General Manager Kurt Aikens to South Feather.
  Summary - This email exchange with Yuba Water Agency General Manager Kurt Aikens to South Feather Water & Power Authority details Slate Creek water diversions and how the Yuba Water Agency gets Slate Creek water when it is less than 800 acre-feet and the North Yuba Water District is entitled to the Slate Creek water above 800 acre-feet. The Slate Creek water over 800 acre-feet is the water the NYWD wants to sell.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Correspondence From Dan Flory of Provost & Pritchard cc'ing YWA GM Whittlesey.
  In April of 2021, Dan Flory from Provost & Pritchar, the consutlants the NYWD hired to help the District find water markets outside of the county, sent serveral emails and cc'd Yuba Water Agency General Manager Willie Whittlesey, NYWD General Manager Jeff Maupin and Crystal Martin.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Letter from the State Water Resources Control Board regarding the 4,500 acre foot sale to Yuba City.
  Summary - This letter from the State Water Resources Control Board is regarding the 2005 agreement between NYWD/SFWPA and how the 4,500 acre-foot sale to Yuba City originated.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - North Yuba Water District Tax Revenue Documents
  Summary - An October 2002 analysis of the tax reveunes for the North Yuba Water Distrct (then the Yuba County Water District).
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Document forming the Yuba County Water District on July 22, 1952.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - In 1953, a report titled IRRIGATION AND HYDRO-ELECTRIC POTENTALITIES OF UPPER YUBA AND BUTE COUNTIES was prepared for the Directors of the Yuba County Water District, now known as the North Yuba Water District. This 114 page document begins by saying, This report presents the results of a preliminary investigation and study of the feasibility of constructing a combined irrigation and power development project in the Upper Yuba and Butte Counties for the benefit of both Yuba and Butte Counties and the people residing therein.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - State Land Classification
  Summary - State Land Classification of Irrigable Areas - Feather-Yuba Foothill Area.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Slate Creek Water Supply Alernative
  Summary - Report prepared for the Yuba County Water Agency in 1993 regarging adding a reservoir on Slate Creek to supply the future needs of the Yuba County Water District (North Yuba Water District)and recommendations for improving the flow of water throught the Forbestown Ditch.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Board Minutes of May 25, 2017, Selling Water to So. California suggestion by Supervisor Randy Fletcher.
  Summary - At this meeting President Forguson said that Yuba County Supervisor Randy Fletcher had suggested that the General Manager attend meetings of the Association of California Water Agencies in Southern California so the Manager could, "meet agencies interested in possbile purchase of water...".
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Marieke's Statement
  Summary - Marieke Furnee made this statement at the 9/15/21 Special Meeting to appoint a director for the vacant Division 4 Seat.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Peter Pillsbury applies for the Division 4 Seat
  Summary - Peter Pillsbury has made an application for the recently vacated Division 4 seat as of 9/7/21.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Marieke applies for the Division 4 Seat
  Marieke Furnee has made an application for the recently vacated Division 4 seat. Ms. Furnee opposes selling the district's water, see Link. She wants the general manager to turn on the valves and provide water that is available now. Ms. Furnee is against the general manager's restrictive pipe and wants to see all of the district's water delivered to the community as a resource for sustainable agriculture, groundwater recharge, and enhanced fire protection.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Provost & Pritchard contract
  This contract between the North Yuba Water District and the Fresno consulting firm Provost & Pritchar stipulates that this consulting firm will develop a Water Marketing Feasibility Study and recommendations ...on how to facilitate the potential sale of this water supply within and/or outside of the District service area....
   
• READ DOCUMENT - Crystal Martin - Litigation Consultant
  Letter from NYWD Legal Council Daniel S. Stouder of the Sacramento law firm Boutin Jones, Inc., regarding the retention of Crystal Martin as a "Litigation Consultant" and, therefore, shielded from Public Record Act requests due to attorney client privilege.
   
• READ DOCUMENT - South Feather Press Release
  On June 28 South Feather Water and Power Posted a Press Release on their Webiste regarding the NYWD's lawsuit against South Feather characterizing the water district as gone rogue. 
   
• READ DOCUMENT - A Timeline