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FINAL Brochure English What is Integrated Regional Tahoe Sierra Integrated Regional Water Management? Water Management Stakeholders Alpine County—Alpine Springs County Water Integrated Regional Water District—Alpine Watershed Group—American Management (IRWM) is a Rivers—California Trout—California Department of collaborative effort to identify and Transportation—California Tahoe Conservancy— Carson Water Subconservancy District—City of South implement water management Lake Tahoe—Department of Water Resources—El solutions on a regional scale that Dorado County—Eldorado County Water Agency— Environmental Protection Agency—Trout increase regional self-reliance, reduce Unlimited—Friends of Hope Valley—Friends of conflict, and manage water to Squaw Creek—Lahontan Regional Water Quality concurrently achieve social, Control Board—Forest Service—Lakeside Park Association—Lukins Brothers Water Company—Lake Tahoe‐Sierra Integrated environmental, and economic Tahoe Unified School District—Markleeville PUD— objectives. This approach delivers Markleeville Water Company—Natural Resources Conservation District—North Tahoe PUD—Placer Regional Water Management Planning higher value for investments by County—Sierra County—Sierra County DOT—Sierra considering all interests, providing County Fire Safe and Watershed Council—Sierra multiple benefits, and working across Nevada Conservancy—Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships—South Tahoe PUD—Squaw Valley jurisdictional boundaries. Benefits PSD—St. Joseph’s Community Land Trust—Tahoe include improved water quality, better City PUD—Tahoe Regional Planning Agency—Tahoe Resource Conservation District—Tahoe-Truckee flood management, restored and Sanitation Agency—Tahoe Truckee USD—Town of enhanced ecosystems, and more Truckee—Truckee Donner Land Trust—Truckee Donner PUD—Truckee River Basin Water Group— reliable surface and Truckee River Watershed Council—Truckee Sanitary groundwater supplies. District—Truckee Trails Foundation—UC Davis TERC—Vail Resorts—Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California The Tahoe‐Sierra IRWMP Grant Programs IRWM Region Planning Grants have helped the TSIRWM partners identify strategies and projects to address the unique needs of the region. Implementation Grants have helped to complete a variety of multi-benefit water projects, including the following: Lake Tahoe Nearshore Aquatic Invasive Plant Control Lake Tahoe Schoolyard Environmental Best Management Learn More! Practices Implementation South Tahoe Public Utility District/ To learn more about the Markleeville Water Company Waterline Replacement Projects TSIRWM Group, Polaris Creek Wetland/Stream Environment Zone (SEZ) The Tahoe-Sierra Region the planning process, Restoration encompasses approximately 800,000 Regional Water Conservation including the 2019 TSIRWM Programs (Lakeside Mutual Water acres and is defined by the Little Co., Lukins Brothers Water Co., North Tahoe PUD, South Tahoe Truckee River, Truckee River, Carson Adopted Plan, as well as PUD, Tahoe City PUD, Squaw Valley PUD) River, and the Lake Tahoe (Ca.) the collaborative projects Water Quality Monitoring watershed in the Easter Sierra for the Truckee River that are benefitting Nevada mountain range. It includes Trout Creek Restoration the eastern parts of Alpine, El Dorado, the Region, visit: Truckee River Watershed Voluntary Best Management Practices Placer, and Nevada Counties, and the Retrofits tahoesierrairwm.com southeastern corner of Sierra County. Hope Valley Meadow Restoration .
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