ADVISORY/Resources Agency Salton Sea Committee Inaugural Meeting Set for January 20.News Editors/Assignment Desks/Environment Writers ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Jan. 20) SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2004 Secretary for Resources Mike Chrisman today announced the inaugural meeting of the Resources Agency Salton Sea Salton Sea (sôl`tən), saline lake, 370 sq mi (958 sq km), northern part of the Imperial Valley, SE Calif.; 232 ft (71 m) below sea level. Advisory Committee, bringing together representatives of federal, state and local agencies, and non-governmental groups to cooperate on efforts to restore the Salton Sea ecosystem.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 20, 2004
10:00 a.m.
WHERE: Golden State Museum
Large Classroom
1020 O Street
Sacramento, CA
The January 20 meeting will include a review of the 2003 legislation on Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. Quantification Settlement Agreement/Salton Sea restoration and an overview of Salton Sea fish and wildlife resources and issues. State legislation enacted in 2003 established a State policy for restoring the Salton Sea as part of California's effort to live within its interstate apportionment The process by which legislative seats are distributed among units entitled to representation; determination of the number of representatives that a state, county, or other subdivision may send to a legislative body. The U.S. of Colorado River water. The Resources Agency's Salton Sea Advisory Committee is an important public advisory body in advancing that effort. The Salton Sea, a terminal desert lake in Riverside and Imperial counties, is sustained chiefly by agricultural runoff Runoff The procedure of printing the end-of-day prices for every stock on an exchange onto ticker tape. Notes: If the "tape is late" then it can take a long time to print off all the closing prices. from surrounding farmland and has no drainage. The Salton Sea supports a highly productive fishery and more than 400 species of resident and nonresident non·res·i·dent adj. 1. Not living in a particular place: nonresident students who commute to classes. 2. birds in a key wintering area of the Pacific Flyway flyway: see migration of animals. , but through concentration and evaporation evaporation, change of a liquid into vapor at any temperature below its boiling point. For example, water, when placed in a shallow open container exposed to air, gradually disappears, evaporating at a rate that depends on the amount of surface exposed, the humidity of salts is becoming too saline to support its present fish and bird population. The Resources Agency's Salton Sea Advisory Committee meeting is scheduled a day before a special Salton Sea Conference, co-sponsored by the Water Education Foundation and the State Department of Water Resources, on January 21 at the Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza at 300 J Street in Sacramento. Information on that day long event can be obtained by contacting the Water Education Foundation at 916-444-6240 or on the Web at www.watereducation.org |
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