Index
Accountability: in governance, 68–74; in Platte River Cooperative Agreement, 83–86
Administrative Procedures Act, 177
ADWR. See Arizona Department of Water Resources
Agency costs, 94, 96, 121(n11); policy implementation, 100–102
Agriculture, 79–80, 81, 104, 120(n6)
Alhambra, 139
Antero dam and reservoir, 76
Area-Wide Water Quality Monitoring Program, 142
Arizona, 70–71, 133, 179–80(n7)
Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR), 133
Arkansas River Basin, 158
Arkansas River Compact, 157
Army Corps of Engineers. See U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Bartholomew and Associates, Harland, 145
Big Bend, 76, 186; endangered species recovery in, 77–78, 81; and Platte River Cooperative Agreement, 79, 85
Big Blue River, 155
Big Blue River Compact, 155
Birds, migratory, 76
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), 107, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115–16, 121(nn13, 15)
Boulder Canyon Act, 35
Boundaries, ix, 19–20, 79; decision making, 60, 61–63; interstate compacts, 157–58; Platte River Basin, 80–81; as social constructs, 57–58; watershed, 24–25, 188–89
Bounded rationality, xi–xii, 91, 92–93, 96, 100, 103, 128, 189–90
BPA. See Bonneville Power Administration
British Columbia, Fraser Basin Council, 66
Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge, 70–71
Bureaucracy, and decision making, 70–71
California, xiii(n1), 10, 12, 42, 133; water systems in, 131–32, 135, 138–39. See also San Gabriel River watershed
California Administrative Code, 142
California Department of Fish and Game, 10, 146
California Department of Health Services, 142, 143–44
California Department of Water Resources (DWR), 132, 140–41
Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4), 142, 143
Catskill Mountains, 170
Central Basin (San Gabriel watershed), 136, 140, 142–43, 144
Central Basin Municipal Water District, 138, 141
Central Basin Water Association, 139
Cheeseman dam and reservoir, 76
Civil service systems, 101
Collaboration(s), collaboratives, 40, 41–42, 43–44, 64, 87–88(n2), 153, 159, 180(n10); grassroots ecosystem management, 72–73; nongovernmental, 73–74; partnerships, 193–94
Colorado: interstate compacts with, 157, 158; and Platte River Basin, xiii(n1), 57, 74–76, 77, 78, 84, 88(n4), 163–64; water management in, 133–34
Colorado River, 35; water importation from, 138, 149
Colorado River Compact, 35
Columbia Fish and Wildlife Authority, 117
Columbia River Basin, xii, xiii(n1), 91, 179(n1), 184, 185, 188; human use of, 104–8; multiple users in, 191–92; Northwest Power Act and, 108–17; policy analysis in, 162–63; salmon recovery on, 117–19, 186
Commissions: Delaware River, 168–70; river basin, 30–31
Commitments, 103, 120(n4), 160; decision making, 98–99; interstate government, 163–64; under Northwest Power Act, 109–10, 112–13, 115; as transaction cost, 94–95, 96
Communities, 179(n3); of interest and identification, 134–35, 178; decision making in, 60–61, 62
Compacts: as constitutions, 154–55; development, of, 83, 171–72; interstate, 156–58, 160–61, 165–68, 179(n6)
Complex adaptive systems, 103, 151–52, 196(n1); decision making about, 13–16; governance structures in, 21–22; multiple-scale management in, 16–17, 186; uncertainty in, 5–8; watersheds as, 2–4, 187–88
Comprehensive integrated management, 91, 97, 100, 103
Compton, 141
Consensus, 41, 44–45, 47, 64–65, 66, 68, 82, 85
Constitutions, 179–80(nn5, 7), 195; compacts as, 154–55; irrigation district governance, 155–56
Cooperation, inter-governmental, 163–64. See also Collaboration(s), collaboratives
Coordination, inter-organizational, 132–34, 190
Cost-benefit analyses, by Army Corps of Engineers, 99
Cranes, on Platte River, 76, 81
Decision making, vii, 1, 33, 49, 56, 87, 96, 112, 121(n9), 135; and accountability, 68–69; arrangements for, 63–64; boundary determination, 57–58; commitment and, 98–99; about complex adaptive systems, 13–16; and comprehensive integrated management, 100, 103; consensus, 40–42, 64–65; hierarchical, 67–68; among incommensurate alternatives, 97–98; and multiple accountability mechanisms, 70–71; participation in, 58–63; in Platte River Cooperative Agreement, 81–82, 85–86; in river basin development, 46–47; transaction costs of, 93–94; voting processes and, 65–66
Delaware River Basin, xiii(n1), 153, 165, 166, 168, 169, 184, 185, 192; governance in, 171–72; water use in, 170–71, 181–82(nn12, 17), 187, 188, 189
Delaware River Basin Compact and Commission, xii, 72, 90, 152–53, 169; creation of, 165–68; and federal government, 172–73, 176–77; operation of, 173–76, 181(n14); Syracuse University report, 171–72
Democracy, multipurpose water projects and, 45–48
Denver, Platte River Basin, 77
Disturbance processes, 7
Drought, 35; Chiricahua leopard frogs in, 70–71; Delaware River Basin, 173–74
Drought protection, 124, 126–27
DWR. See Arizona Department of Water Resources; California Department of Water Resources
Easton, 170
East Valleys Organization, 144
Economies, 131; political, xi–xii; sustainable, 125, 127
Ecosystems, 9, 20, 107; as complex adaptive systems, 2–8; health of, 36, 49–50; management of, 26(n1), 36
Elections, accountability in, 69–70
Electric power, 98; Columbia River Basin, 105–6
Elevenmile Canyon dam and reservoir, 76
Endangered Species Act (ESA), 74; recovery of, 76–78, 80, 81, 84, 85; salmon and, 117, 118
Environmental conditions, 6, 176
Environmental Era, 28
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 34–35, 41, 118–19, 120(n7), 143–44
Environmental regulations/policies, 14, 40, 49
Environmental values, in water management, 33–34
EPA. See Environmental Protection Agency
ESA. See Endangered Species Act
Everglades, restoration of, 133
Federal agencies, 33, 190; consensus and cooperation among, 44–45; and Delaware River Basin, 171–72, 176–77; and governance structures, 193–94; and Northwest Power Planning Council, 114, 115–17; and river basin development, 37–38; and river basin commissions, 39–40, 53(n9)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), 77, 79, 81, 107, 114
Federal government, 53(n9), 181–82(nn13, 16, 17); Delaware River Basin Compact, 172–73; watershed management, 30–31; water development, 29, 32–33
Federal Interagency River Basin Committee, 38, 48
Federalism, xii, 152–54, 178, 179(nn2, 5), 185–86; policy analysis, 162–64
Federal Power Commission, 33, 38
FERC. See Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Fish, 76, 186; Columbia River Basin, 106, 108; habitat protection, 10, 12, 22–23; recovery plans, 109–10, 111, 112, 113–15, 116–18, 163, 188, 189
Fish and wildlife agencies, 91; and Northwest Power Planning Council, 109–10, 114–17
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (1976), 107, 108
Fish Propagation Panel, 114
Flood control, 129–30, 150(n1), 170
Flood Control Act, 99
Flood hazard reduction, 124–25, 126
Foothill Municipal Water District, 138
Fragmentation, 196(n2); institutional, 190–91; natural resource management, 191–92
Fraser Basin Council, 66
Friends of the San Gabriel River, 146
Frogs, Chiricahua leopard, 70–71
Funding, under Northwest Power Act, 110, 112, 113, 114, 116, 121(n15)
FWS. See U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Governance, x–xi, 91, 179(n3), 194–95; accountability in, 68–74; Delaware River Basin, 171–72, 177; determining boundaries, 57–58; federal style of, 153–54, 156–61, 178, 179(n5), 180(n11), 185–86, 193–94; irrigation districts, 155–56; Platte River Cooperative Agreement, 85–86; politics of, 55–56; structures of, 21–22. See also Type I governance structures; Type II governance structures
Grand Island, 76
Grassroots Ecosystem Management (GREM), 64; accountability in, 72–73
GREM. See Grassroots Ecosystem Management
Groundwater, 129–30; contamination of, 142–45, 186–87; in Delaware River system, 174–75; interstate compacts, 157, 158–59; in Platte River system, 79–80, 81; in San Gabriel River watershed, 136, 139–41, 148–49, 188, 192–93
Guernsey dam and reservoir, 76
Habitat protection, 8, 10, 126, 186; Platte River Basin, 57, 76–77
Hart, Gary, 72
Human communities, and ecosystems, 20
Hydroelectric power: Columbia River, 105–7, 110, 112, 114, 115–16; Platte River, 76, 77–78, 79
Idaho, Columbia River Basin, 108
INCODEL. See Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin
Incommensurate alternatives, 97–98, 111, 120(n7), 121(n8)
Industry, Columbia River Basin, 104
Inland Waterways Commission, 52(n6)
Institutions, 2, 20, 135, 183–84; accountability, 68–74; complex systems of, 25–26; fragmentation of, 190–91; governance, 21–22; Santa Ana River Basin, 22–23
Instream flows, 126
Integration, inter-organizational, 132–33
Interests: agricultural, 79–80, 81; in decision making, 58–63
Interstate Commission on the Delaware River Basin (INCODEL), 168–70
Irrigation: districts, 63, 155–56; Platte River system, 76, 77, 88(n4)
Kansas, interstate compacts, 155, 157, 158, 179(n6)
Kansas River, 155
King and Kern Rivers development, 33
Landscape, 1; institutional, 190–91
Little Blue River, 155
Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council, 146
Los Angeles County: San Gabriel River watershed, 135–36, 141, 144; urbanization, 136–39
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, 141, 146, 147
Los Angeles County Flood Control District, 143
Los Angeles River Basin, 145, 150
Main San Gabriel Basin, 136, 138, 140, 141, 149, 188; water quality issues, 142, 143–44; watermaster authorities, 144–45
Main San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, 145
Metropolitan Water District (MWD) of Southern California, 131–32, 138, 149
Mining, Columbia River Basin, 104
Missouri River Basin, 33
Monongahela River, 36
Montana, 108
Monterey Park, 139
Multiple accountability mechanisms, 70–71
Multiple goals, of watershed management, 124–27
Municipalities, 104, 128; San Gabriel River watershed, 136–39, 141, 146
MWD. See Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), 108, 117, 118
National Park Service, 33
National Planning Board, 30, 37
National Resources Board, viii, 37, 38
National Resources Committee, 37, 48
National Resources Planning Board, 38
National Water Commission, 29
National Watershed Forum, 24
Natural resource management, viii, 28, 60, 80; changing agendas of, 186–87; fragmentation of, 191–92; multiple-scale organizations, 16–17. See also Resource management, integrated
Nebraska: agriculture in, 79–80, 81; interstate compacts with, 155, 157, 158–59, 179(n6); Platte River Basin in, xiii, 57, 74, 76, 77–78, 84, 88(n4), 163–64
Nebraska Department of Natural Resources, 80, 164
Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, 77
New England River Basin Commission, 36
New Jersey, 166–68, 169, 170, 176
New York, 165, 166, 168, 169, 170, 176
New York City, 165, 166, 167–68, 169, 170, 181(n12)
NMFS. See National Marine Fisheries Service
North Platte, 76
North Platte Decree, 157
Northwest Power Act, 108; Congressional role, 111–13
Northwest Power Planning Council, xii, 91, 104, 121(n13); federal agencies and, 115–17; plan developed by, 113–15; policy analysis in, 162–63; role of, 108–10, 118–19
Ohio River Commission, 36
Olmsted Brothers, 145
Orange County Water District, 10
Oregon, Columbia River Basin, 108, 191–92
Oregon State University, salmon recovery, 118
Organizations, 2, 50; accountability in, 68, 69; coordination among, 132–34; hydrologically based, 23–24; multiple-scale management, 16–17, 190–91; overlapping, 160–61; polycentric structures of, 17–18, 134–35; voluntary, 159–60
Pacific Northwest Coordination Agreement (1964), 107
Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act (1980), 108, 110–11
Partnerships, viii–ix, 23–24, 40; collaborative, 42–44, 54(nn14, 15, 16), 193–94; as experiments in democracy, 47–48; municipal, 138–39; watershed, 50–51
Pathfinder dam and reservoir, 76
PCE. See Tetrachloroethylene
Pennsylvania: Delaware River, 165, 166, 167–68, 169, 170; groundwater issues, 174–75
Philadelphia, water supply, 165, 169
Planning, 53(nn9, 10), 189; Columbia River Basin, 109–10; integrated, viii, 48–49, 50; by Northwest Power Planning Council, 113–15, 118; in Rio Grande Basin, 67–68; in river basin development, 30–31, 35–36, 37–38, 53(n12)
Platte River Basin, xiii(n1), 56–57, 74–75, 164, 179(n1), 184, 185, 188; habitat protection in, 76–77; overlapping boundaries in, 80–81; water use in, 77–80, 187, 189
Platte River Cooperative Agreement, xiii(n1), 57, 78, 79, 88(n5); accountability in, 83–86; decision-making processes in, 81–82
Plovers, piping, 76
Policy analysis, federalism in, 162–64
Policymaking, 25, 52(n2), 52–53(n6), 56, 64, 65, 88(n3), 133, 134; agency costs, 100–102; diverse preferences and, 102–3
Pomona Valley Municipal Water District, 138
Predator-prey relationships, 10
Provision-production, 129–31; groundwater systems, 139–41
Public participation, Northwest Power Act program, 112
Raymond Basin, 136, 140, 141, 150(n3)
Raymond Basin Management Board, 141
Recreation: Los Angeles and San Gabriel Basins, 145–46; water-based, 125–26, 127
Regional Water Quality Control Board: water quality issues, 142, 143, 144
Reiner, Ira, 144
Republican River Compact, 157, 158–59, 180(nn8, 9)
Resource management, integrated, 8–10, 31–32, 33, 66–67
Rio Grande, watershed planning in, 67–68
Rio Hondo Channel, 147
River basin commissions, 30–31, 32–33, 35–36, 48, 49, 54(n18), 72, 89; development decisions, 46–47; role and function of, 39–40, 53(nn9, 10, 11)
River basin development, 32–34, 35, 37–38, 48, 53(n12); decisions in, 46–47; goals and democracy in, 45–46
River basins, 25; management of, 16, 30–31, 89–90, 119(n1). See also by name
Salmon fisheries: in Columbia River Basin, 106, 107–8, 110–12, 113–15, 116–17; recovery of, 91, 117–19
San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy, 147
San Gabriel River, 136, 141, 150, 192; restoration of, 145–47
San Gabriel River Master Plan Committee, 146–47
San Gabriel River watershed, xii, xiii(n1), 127–28, 131, 135, 184, 185; groundwater contamination in, 142–45, 186–87; groundwater use, 139–41, 188, 192–93; management of, 147–50; municipal partnership in, 136–39
San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District, 139, 145
Santa Ana River watershed, xiii(n1), 11(fig.), 12, 136, 138, 184, 185; habitat protection in, 10, 186; institutional structures on, 22–23
Santa Ana River Watershed Group, 23
Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, 10, 23
Santa Fe Dam Recreation area, 146
Science, 70, 88(n5), 120(n2); in policy making, 13–14; and salmon recovery, 110–11; uncertainty in, 5–8, 15
Seawater barrier, San Gabriel watershed, 131
Seminoe dam and reservoir, 76
Senate Select Committee on National Water Resources, viii, 39
Sierra Madre, 139
Snake River Basin: hydroelectric power, 105–6; salmon on, 116, 117, 118
Socioeconomic goals, 45, 46, 47
South Platte River, 76
South Platte River Basin, 158
South Platte River Compact, 74
South Platte Cooperative Agreement, 161
Special districts, 128
State agencies, 79
States, 83, 84, 91, 179–80(nn7, 8); Columbia River Basin, 106, 191–92; compacts, 156–58; Delaware River Basin Compact, 172–73; irrigation districts, 155–56; water allocation in, 80–81. See also various states
State Water Project (California), 131–32, 138–39
Stream teams, 24
Sturgeon, pallid, 76
Suckers, Santa Ana, 10, 12, 22
Superfund site, San Gabriel Basin as, 143–44
Sustainable economies, 125, 127
Syracuse University, Delaware River development, 170–71
TCE. See Trichloroethylene
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), 29, 52(n2), 98
Terns, least, 76
Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), 142, 143
Three Valleys Municipal Water District, 138, 145
Timber industry, Columbia River Basin, 104
Title II river basin commissions, 30–31, 89
Torres, Art, 144
Torres, Esteban, 144
Transaction costs, 91, 103, 121(n11); agency and commitment and, 94–95; decision making and, 93–94; interactions of, 95–96
Treaties: with Canada, 105–6; tribal, 108
Treaty Related to the Cooperative Development of the Water Resources of the Columbia River Basin, 105–6
Trenton, 165
Tribes, 91, 163; salmon and trout fisheries, 106, 117, 118; treaty fishing rights, 108, 112
Trichloroethylene (TCE), in San Gabriel Basin groundwater, 142, 143
Trout, steelhead, 106
TVA. See Tennessee Valley Authority
Two Forks reservoir, 77, 88(n4)
Type I governance structures, 21, 22, 23, 36, 39, 160, 193
Type II governance structures, 21, 22, 23, 36, 39, 160, 193
Udall, Stewart, 172
Umatilla Basin, 116
Uncertainty, in complex adaptive systems, 5–8, 13–16
Unified river basin management, 30
U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, 32, 33, 38, 52–53(nn6, 9, 12), 54(n18), 99; Columbia River Basin, 105, 107; Delaware River Basin, 170, 172, 174, 175–76
U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 38
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, 32, 33, 35, 38, 53(n9); Columbia River Basin, 105, 106, 107; Platte River Basin, 74, 78, 82
U.S. Congress, 83, 99; and Delaware River projects, 175–76; interstate compacts and, 160–61; and Northwest Power Act, 109–10, 111–13, 121(n15)
U.S. Department of the Interior, and Platte River Basin, 78, 88(n5)
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), 10, 12, 76–77, 82, 84, 108
U.S. Forest Service, 33
U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, 108
U.S. Supreme Court, 74; Delaware River water allocation, 166, 168, 169–70, 173; interstate compacts, 83, 156–57, 158, 159
Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District (USGVMWD), 138, 140, 142, 143, 144, 145
Upper San Gabriel Valley Water Association, 139, 140, 141
USGVMWD. See Upper San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District
Valley County Water District, 142
Voting processes, decision making through, 65–66, 68
Wastewater treatment, 125
Water allocation, 155, 156–57; Delaware River, 169–70; over-, 158–59, 164
Water budget, Northwest Power Act plan, 113, 117, 118, 121(n14)
Water conservation and reuse, 125
Water development projects, multipurpose, 31–33
Water districts, 63, 79; Southern California, 131–32, 138–39
Water management, xi, 34, 45, 155
Watermasters, San Gabriel River watershed, 140–41, 142, 143, 144–45
Water projects, 53(n10), 129; Delaware River, 170, 175–76, 181–82(n17); Endangered Species Act and, 77–78; multipurpose, 45–46; in Platte River system, 79, 86, 88(n4)
Water quality, 12, 125; in Delaware River Basin, 172, 173, 174; monitoring, 22–23, 155; in San Gabriel River watershed, 142–45
Water Resources Act (1965), 29, 30–31, 36, 39
Water Resources Council, 30, 39, 40, 46, 54(n18), 121(n10)
Water resources management, 19, 28
Watershed Collaborative Era, 28–29; management in, 36–37
Watershed management, integrated, 8–10, 31–32, 33, 66–67
Watershed movement, 27–28, 33–34, 41, 47–48, 49
Water supply reliability, 124
Water use, 25, 60, 125–26, 128, 150(n2), 187, 189; Colorado, 133–34; Columbia River Basin, 104–8; Delaware River, 165, 170–71, 181(n12); Platte River, 57, 76–78, 79, 84, 86; San Gabriel River watershed, 139–41
Wells, Platte River system, 79
West Basin (San Gabriel watershed), 136, 140, 142–43
West Basin Municipal Water District, 138
West Basin Water Association, 139
Whittier Narrows, 136, 140, 141, 143, 144, 146
Whittier Narrows Recreation Area, 146
Whooping Crane Trust, 81
Wildlife, in Columbia River Basin, 104, 108, 111
Willamette River, 192
Wyoming, 157; Platte River Basin, xiii(n1), 57, 74, 76, 78, 81, 84, 88(n4), 163–64