Salton Sea Unit

The Salton Sea Unit supports the California Natural Resources Agency’s Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP) created by Governor Brown’s Salton Sea Task Force to address the urgent public and ecological health issues resulting from the drying and shrinking of the Salton Sea. The health issues, including hazardous air quality from dust emissions and loss of important wildlife habit, are a result of the farm-to-urban water transfers set in place by a 2003 water rights agreement, called the Quantification Settlement Agreement [QSA]).

While the SSMP is a long-range program, its immediate focus is on the development and implementation of the Phase I: 10-Year Plan. We support the SSMP and the Phase I Plan by providing planning, engineering, and environmental expertise for design and implementation of dust-suppression and habitat projects. The Phase I Plan includes projects that will be completed as early as the end of 2022. Proposition 1 provided $80 million in funding for SSMP implementation.