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3rd Quadrennial CCC Creek and Watershed Symposium

The 3rd Quadrennial Contra Costa County Creek and Watershed Symposium, Contra Costa County Watersheds: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, will be held on November 15, 2007 in Walnut Creek. The purpose of the event is to provide a venue where interested individuals representing a wide variety of organizations and perspectives can assemble and learn about timely and significant issues regarding the health of creeks and watersheds. Noteworthy aspects of the event include an emphasis on understanding past conditions and events, a comprehensive overview of current activities and who is behind them, inspirational initiatives from inside and outside the region, trends, challenges and opportunities over the long term, and a discussion on the crisis in the Delta and renewed calls for construction of a peripheral canal. You are cordially invited to attend.

What Symposium CCWF Meeting Historical Ecology
When November 15, 2007
from 08:30 to 16:30
Where Shadelands Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Contact Name Abby Fateman
Contact Email
Contact Phone (925) 335-1272
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Meeting Materials are linked to the presentation item below.  Complete Symposium materials can be downloaded here(13,000 KB pdf document) -- It is recommended that you right click and save this document to your computer).

Follow this link to download the event brochure .

The publication: The Historical Ecology of Contra Costa County: An Illustrated Preview and Guide that was distributed at the Symposium, can be downloaded here (9,000 KB) .

Agenda

8:30      Registration Begins.  Poster Session.

9:00      Convene 2007 Symposium - Don Freitas, Master of Ceremonies and Manager, Contra Costa 
                           Clean Water Program

9:10      Welcoming remarks - Honorable Sue Rainey, Mayor, City of Walnut Creek 
              Welcoming remarks - Honorable Susan Bonilla, Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors, District IV
              Introductory remarks - Honorable George Miller, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th District (invited)

 Lessons From the Past

9:30      Why the Past Matters: Understanding our Watersheds through Historical Analysis
              Mitch Avalon, Deputy Chief Engineer, Contra Costa County Flood Control and Water Conservation District

9:40      Historical Ecological Assessment of Contra Costa Watersheds: An Introduction 
              Robin Grossinger, Historical Ecology Program Manager, San Francisco Estuary Institute

10:05    Cultural and Human History of Contra Costa Watersheds: How Native Peoples Shaped the Environment 
               Mark Hylkema, Archaeologist, California State Parks

10:30    Break

10:45    The 30th Anniversary of the Mount Diablo Fire of 1977: A First Hand Account of an Event that 
              Continues to Influence How We Manage Our Watersheds 
              Bob Doyle, Assistant General Manager, East Bay Regional Park District 

 

 What is Happening Today in Contra Costa

11:10    Contra Costa Watershed Forum Overview 
              Kae Ono and Abby Fateman, Contra Costa County Community Development Department

11:15    Who Is Doing What Where? A Whirlwind Tour of What Is Being Done Now By A Wide Array 
               of Organizations To Improve the Health of Creeks and Watersheds in the County

11:45    Remembering a Forefather of Clean Water Policies: Dr. Teng-Chung Wu
              David Contreras, General Manager, Mountain View Sanitary District

11:50    Presentation of the 2007 Contra Costa Watershed Forum Awards

12:05    Lunch  (Courtesy of Contra Costa County Fish and Wildlife Committee Chefs)

 

 Major decisions for the detla

1:00      Overview Presentation: Worsening Crisis in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
              Robert Twiss, Professor Emeritus, University of California at Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

1:15      Panel Discussion: 25 Years After Rejecting the Peripheral Canal Should Contra Costa Residents Give This Issue a Fresh Look?

            Moderator:      Sunne Wright McPeak, President and CEO of California Emerging
                                                Technology Fund and Member of the Governor’s Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force

            Panelists:         Byron Buck, Principal, Byron Buck and Associates
                                    Greg Gartrell, Assistant General Manager, Contra Costa Water District 
                                    Tom Graff, Senior Attorney, Environmental Defense
                                    Jerry Meral, former Executive Director, Planning and Conservation League
                                    Dante Nomellini, General Manager and Co-Counsel, Central Delta Water Agency

 

What the Future May Hold

2:10      Learning From Pioneers: The City of San Luis Obispo’s Efforts to Incorporate the Health of Creeks and Watersheds in Their Visions for the City
            Dr. Neil Havlik, Natural Resources Manager, City of San Luis Obispo

2:45      Break

3:00      Pinole Creek Watershed Restoration: From Vision to Reality
              Drew Goetting, Restoration Design Group

3:25      General Comments From the Audience

3:40      The World Shrinks, the World Expands:  Watersheds and Relocalization
               Rob Thayer, Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture, University of California at Davis and Visiting 
                            Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and  Environmental Planning, University
                            of California at Berkeley

4:10      Concluding Remarks - Don Freitas

4:15      Adjourn