Archives by Tag 'joint fact-finding'

Water Resource Protection Collaborative Garners Awards (2002-2006)

The Santa Clara County Water Resources Protection Collaborative
CONCUR worked with a broad cross-section of interests in California’s Santa Clara County (“Silicon Valley”) over a four-year period (2002-2006) to develop and ratify a series of landmark agreements for protecting water resources, and particularly stream resources, in this large and complex County. The Santa Clara Valley Water [...]

Guest Lecture at Cal State University Monterey Bay, Graduate Seminar in Coastal Watershed Science and Policy (2006)

In October 2006, CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary presented a guest lecture on his facilitation of the Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Central Coast Project at a graduate seminar at California State University Monterey Bay. His talk examined key process choices made and their relationships to outcomes achieved in the Central Coast study area, which culminated [...]

CALFED: Using Joint Fact-Finding to Resolve Long-Standing Disputes (1998-2005)

From 1998-2005, CONCUR organized, structured and facilitated several high-profile and technically complex independent review processes intended to help resolve several aspects of California’s long-standing water wars.  These independent review panels – undertaken as part of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, a state-federal initiative intended to resolve the state’s intertwined water supply reliability, water quality, levee system [...]

National Environmental and Public Policy Case Database (2004)

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary served on a Steering Committee for a project funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that examined the feasibility of creating a national data base of environmental and public policy mediated cases. This project had several intended products. They were: (1) to characterize and assess ways to overcome the barriers [...]

Headwaters Forest Water Quality Issues: Conflict Assessment and Independent Scientific Review, and Facilitated Watershed Working Group (2002-2003)

In 2002 and 2003, CONCUR carried out a series of assignments for the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (NCRWQCB) in support of resolving longstanding issues related to sediment impairment of water quality in five Humboldt County watersheds that are subject to logging by Pacific Lumber Company (PALCO).
CONCUR served as convenor and facilitator of [...]

2006 Northern California ADR Faculty Conference at Stanford Law School On March 25, 2006

CONCUR Principal Scott McCreary gave a presentation on Teaching Environmental Policy Mediation to The 2006 Northern California ADR Faculty Conference at Stanford Law School. Scott outlined a set of organizing questions for teachers of public policy mediation to consider, and shared his first-hand experience in mediating two complex environmental policy cases and potential implications for [...]

Restoration Concepts for the Tigris-Euphrates Marshlands (2003)

CONCUR worked on this innovative initiative, sponsored by the Iraq Foundation, the U.S. State Department and other funders. The aim of the project, known as “Eden Again”, is to outline scientifically sound concepts that can be used to facilitate the restoration of the Mesopotamian Marshlands-including the Hammar, Haweizeh, and central marsh– which are located within [...]

Lower Owens River Project (LORP) (2003-2004)

CONCUR designed and completed a Stakeholder Assessment for U.S. EPA, examining the potential to use a facilitation/mediation process to resolve a long-running 30 year dispute over water and wildlife resources between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP), Inyo County, local and national environmental groups, the State of California, and Native American tribes.
The [...]

Guadalupe River Flood Control Project Collaborative, San Jose, California (1997-2002)

CONCUR facilitated the Guadalupe River Flood Control Project Collaborative, which produced a landmark agreement to resolve remaining mitigation issues for the lower Guadalupe River in downtown San Jose. The River, which has flooded twice in the past decade, is habitat for both chinook salmon and steelhead trout. The Collaborative included over a dozen members of [...]

Guadalupe Oil Field Cleanup, San Luis Obispo County, California (1997-2002)

CONCUR designed and mediated a dispute resolution process leading to clean-up of the Guadalupe Oil Field for the State of California and Union Oil of California (UNOCAL). The site is located in central California’s San Luis Obispo County. Over the 40-year life of the oil field, more than 15 million gallons of petroleum products gradually [...]