Presented by:

Amy Malick
Sr. Sustainability Strategist, Haley & Aldrich
Sue Mosburg
Program Manager, Sweetwater Authority
Coleen Wisniewski
Senior Environmental Sustainability, City of Chula Vista Office of Sustainability

Jake Torrens
Moderator, Sustainability Associate, Haley & Aldrich

 

 

INTRODUCTION:

Chula Vista, California has an arid climate that makes it particularly vulnerable to the severe drought that has long plagued California. In fact, 85 percent of the region’s water is imported from both the Colorado River and Northern California. As its population grows, water demand is expected to surge by 46 percent in the next 20 years, further increasing the City’s dependence on outside water resources. While the City had already pursued a multitude of water stewardship initiatives, it had not organized or documented any of them in an actionable way.

Haley & Aldrich worked with internal stakeholders, local water authorities, and the community to develop a comprehensive picture of all  efforts to co-create a path forward that leverages the best of those efforts with new ideas to address water scarcity across municipal, residential, and commercial activities. After engaging the broader community and gathering over 200 suggestions through a series of facilitated workshops, the City defined five key themes that addressed its water conservation, reuse, and stewardship vision and then narrowed hundreds of stakeholder and community contributions to just 26 actionable items that fit within those themes. Together, a water stewardship program was created that paired water conservation with graywater, stormwater, and waste water reuse opportunities that would serve as a framework for the City of Chula Vista and act as a model for other communities to emulate. The plan also included a compilation of easy-to-navigate lists of funding sources to encourage widespread adoption of the plan by Chula Vista businesses and residents.

 As California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act matures and Groundwater Sustainable Agencies (GSA) formed, the clock has started for the development of Groundwater Sustainability Plans (“GSP”; which are akin to a Water Stewardship Plan) and now is the time for GSAs to start thinking about how they are going to create an actionable GSP. This oral presentation will consist of a moderated panel with City of Chula Vista's Coleen Wisniewski, Sweetwater Authority’s Sue Mosburg, and Haley Aldrich's Amy Malick; the panel will be moderated by Haley & Aldrich's Jake Torrens. This presentation will provide an opportunity to hear directly from the City and its water authority on how they forged their own path to water stewardship and developed an actionable water stewardship plan for their City that can be used as a model for GSAs to create an actionable GSP.

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SPEAKERS:

Amy Malick has over 15 years of experience in sustainability management at airports, local governments, and the private sector. As a Sustainability Client Leader at Haley & Aldrich, she consults on a range of sustainability issues including energy and water management, climate resilience, and sustainability planning and reporting.

Sue Mosburg is a Program Manager at Sweetwater Authority with responsibility for the Authority's risk management, employee development, and water use efficiency programs. In this role she develops program goals, implements strategies, oversees activities to address identified and emerging trends, and monitors the effectiveness of program efforts.

Coleen Wisniewski is a Senior Conservation Specialist in the City of Chula Vista’s Office of Sustainability and has 17 years of program management experience in the environmental and conservation field. She manages various programs including those related to water conservation, energy efficiency, green building, alternative transportation and renewable energy.

MODERATOR:

Jake Torrens has 19 years of experience as a consultant with extensive experience facilitating cross-functional teams and diverse stakeholders in environmental cleanup planning, sustainability and resilience planning, and water-stewardship projects for a variety of private and municipal clients. He is a Sustainability Associate and Lean Practitioner at Haley & Aldrich.

 

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Date and Time

Wed, Oct. 10, 2018

noon - 1:30 p.m.
(GMT-0700) America/Los_Angeles

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