Top DWR Sites
Taking Care of Business
- Director¹s Office
- Office of the Chief Counsel
- Public Affairs Office
- Legislative Affairs Office
- Office of Workforce Equality
- Delta and Statewide Water Management
- Regional Water Planning and Management
- Public Safety and Security
- State Water Project
- California Energy Resources Scheduling
- Business Operations
The California State Water Project is a water storage and delivery system of reservoirs, aqueducts, powerplants and pumping plants. Its main purpose is to store water and distribute it to 29 urban and agricultural water suppliers in Northern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, the Central Coast, and Southern California. Of the contracted water supply, 70 percent goes to urban users and 30 percent goes to agricultural users.
Engineering
Provide timely, cost-effective, and quality engineering, geology, construction, real estate,
geodetic, and administrative services to our clients in concert with Department of Water
Resources' strategic goals and objectives.
State Water Project Analysis Office
This office administers policies and procedures to ensure that the State Water Project delivers water to the approximately 25 million Californians depending on it for at least a portion of their water needs. SWPAO is staffed with engineers, analysts, writers, and support staff. Our office has three main areas of management: Project Costs, Project Power, and Project Water. Within these areas we calculate contractor cost allocations, track the buying and selling of power, negotiate and administer water contracts, track water schedules and actual delivery amounts, prepare Bulletin 132 (Management of the California State Water Project) each year, and coordinate and approve new turnouts.
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Administers the long term contracts with the 29 SWP contractors. To accomplish this, the Branch negotiates and administers additional water contracts and acts as contractor liaison with the SWP contractors for water deliveries and special projects; and negotiates and administers water contracts with non-SWP contractors.
- Facilitates a DWR-wide effort to renew the FERC power license to operate the Department's Oroville hydroelectric facilities, including two pumping-generating plants and one power plant.
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The Water Delivery Analysis and Documentation Branch is responsible for a diverse set of functions including scheduling and classifying water deliveries, administering the turnout authorization and special water supply programs processes, and publishing Bulletin 132, an annual report chronicling the activities of the State Water Project.
Oroville Facilities Relicensing Branch
Water Delivery Analysis and Documentation Branch
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Performs a variety of functions within its four sections: the Water Transfers Section, the Environmental Water Account Water Supply Section, the Bay-Delta Hearings and Program Development Section, and the SWP Water Rights Section.
Water Supply and Transfers Branch
Operations and Maintenance
Through its five field divisions, listed below, operate and maintain the California
State Water Project, to conserve and deliver water and provide flood control, recreation,
and fish and wildlife enhancement, all within regulatory requirements and in an economic,
reliable and environmentally-sound manner.
- Oroville
- Delta
- San Luis
- San Joaquin
- Southern