Archives by Tag 'Santa Clara Valley'

Update on Adaptive Management for the Guadalupe River Flood Control Project

The Guadalupe River Flood Control Project has a prior history of collaboration, which culminated in its redesign from a trapezoidal channel bypass tunnel and successful construction of the project, along with a suite of early implementation items to mitigate remaining impacts on the river corridor. Its 2001 Dispute Resolution Memorandum, facilitated by CONCUR, created an [...]

New CONCUR Fact Sheet on Watershed Planning

CONCUR has prepared a new fact sheet focused on our watershed planning experience and expertise (download PDF). Watershed planning touches on a broad range of issues including local land use policies, stream protection concerns, restoration goals, flood control, and water quality. The planning framework can be transboundary and address implications for climate change adaptation, or [...]

Guadalupe River Flood Control Project: Adaptive Management Team update (April 2009)

As part of the agreement mediated for the Guadalupe River Flood Control Project, parties formed an Adaptive Management Team, which commits to meet annually to review the results and effectiveness of mitigation measures implemented to date. This year, on April 29th and 30th CONCUR Associate Rebecca Bryson facilitated the meeting. Parties included the SCVWD, the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Santa Clara Valley Water District Stream Maintenance Program (1999)

CONCUR designed and facilitated a 30-stakeholder advisory committee through a four meeting process to assist the District in preparing a District-wide effort to assess and mitigate the impacts of its stream maintenance program. The District’s effort is one of the first ever to tackle stream maintenance comprehensively. Throughout the project, CONCUR lead discussions focused on [...]

Training for Santa Clara Valley Water District (July & September 1997)

CONCUR delivered a one-day training course in Negotiating Effective Environmental Agreements to technical, planning and managerial staff at the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Due to the success of that course, CONCUR was asked to return to the District to deliver a second environmental negotiation course to additional staff, as well as senior administrators and [...]

Reducing Copper Pollution in the South San Francisco Bay (1993-1994)

In late 1993 and early 1994, CONCUR facilitated the South Bay Copper Reduction Dialogue. The negotiation was convened to meet the terms of permits imposed by the Regional Water Quality Control Board to reduce the combined discharge of copper from the cities of Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley Nonpoint Source [...]