Memorandum
Date: October 20, 2020
To: The Honorable Moke Simon, Chair, Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Scott De Leon, Water Resources Director
Subject: (Sitting as the Lake County Watershed Protection District) Adopt Resolution Approving a Memorandum of Understanding between County of Lake Watershed Protection District and the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe for the shared execution of the USEPA 2019-2022 Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant (NEIEN).
Executive Summary: (include fiscal and staffing impact narrative):
The Lake County Watershed Protection District (DISTRICT) and the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe (HPUL) intend to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding for the shared execution of the USRPA 2019-2022 Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant (GRANT).The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding is to document a mutual understanding of the District and Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake Tribe agencies with respect to their joint application, approval, execution, reporting, and continuation of the aforementioned grant.
Currently, there is not a local mechanism that provides access to relevant, long term, and high-quality, water quality data. Regional tribal groups have been essential in collecting and monitoring water quality from streams and lakes, but some of this data, while uploaded to the Water Quality Exchange, is inaccessible to some local and state stakeholders. Therefore, a need exists for a centralized and coordinated effort to discover, collect, assimilate, store, and provide accessible guidance for water quality data in Lake County with an exchange network or networks.
At the completion of this project, the availability of accessible water quality data will allow local, state, federal, tribal, academic, non-profit, and the general public to better manage and monitor valuable aquatic resources in Lake County, including those in Clear Lake.
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