2022 Water Summit
Join us May 19, 2022 for our 2022 Water Summit
Sponsorship opportunities now available.
2021 Virtual Water Summit
We can’t thank you enough for attending the 2021 virtual Kern Coun
ty Water Summit!
We hope you enjoyed discussing crucial water topics such as the Biden Administration update on Federal Water and the report on “Effective Water Rights Response to Climate Change”. As well as analysis added by our keynote speaker, award-winning journalist and author, Mark Arax.
As promised here is the link to access the event for the next year.
Please use the same email you used to register. https://wakc.brand.live/c/kern-county-water-summit
We hope to see you again next year!
Webinar with David Serafini, US Army Corps of Engineers
Webinar with David Serafini, US Army Corps of Engineers
David C. Serafini is the Geosciences Branch Chief for the SPD Dam Safety Production Center and is a Registered Geotechnical Engineer in the State of California. He has over 19 years of experience with the USACE working on geotechnical investigations and designs for both the Military and Civil Works Dam and Levee Safety Missions. He has also worked on risk evaluation, risk management plan alternative development and evaluation, and design of Dam Safety Modifications. He currently serves as the Lead Engineer for the Isabella Dam Safety Modification Project.
Serafini provided a brief project review of the Isabella Dam, an overview of modifications to the main dam, auxiliary dam, service spillway and new emergency spillway as well as Phase ll Construction highlights and status for each feature
Webinar with Karla Nemeth
Karla Nemeth, Direc tor of the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).
January 11, 2021 Webinar with Karla Nemeth,Direc tor California Department of Water Resources
Karla Nemeth was appointed Direc tor of the California Department of Water Resources on January 10, 2018 and was reappointed by Governor Newsom on June 28, 2019.
In cooperation with other agencies, DWR manages California’s water resources to benefit the state’s people, and to protect, res tore, and enhance the natural and human environments.
Nemeth focuses on preparing the Department and state to adapt to more extreme weather as a result of climate change – investing in aging and green infrastructure, better management of groundwater supplies, and various programs to improve local water resilience.
Nemeth provided an update on the Delta Conveyance Project, as well as a summary of DWR projects in Kern County.
Watch the recorded webinar with Direc tor Nemeth on our YouTube channel
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Webinar with Tom McCarthy
Oc tober 20, 2020 Webinar with Tom McCarthy, General Manager Kern County Water Agency
View the saved webinar on our YouTube channel
Operating Kern County for today and in to the future
Hear from the new KCWA general manager, who he is, and what he hopes to accomplish in his new role serving Kern County
Jenny Holtermann named new WAKC Executive Direc tor
The Water Association of Kern County Board of Direc tors has named Jenny Bertagna Holtermann as the new executive direc tor.
Holtermann, a fourth generation California farmer and graduate of California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, has been a blogger, freelance writer and social media advocate as well as sales/grower relations specialist for several agricultural firms in the San Joaquin Valley including SunWorld International and Bayer Crop Science Vegetable Seed. She is a member of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s Partners in Advocacy Leadership Program and is a board member of the California Farm Bureau Federation, serving on several committees. She is also second vice president of the Kern County Farm Bureau and a committee member for the Almond Board of California. Along with her husband, she is a co-owner of H& H Family Farms, an almond farming enterprise in Wasco, CA. She is past president of the Kern County branch of the California Women for Agriculture and past chair of the City of Wasco Planning Commission.
“We are so pleased to have Jenny fill our executive direc tor posi ton and know she will do a wonderful job for our organization. She has tremendous credentials,” said Gene Lundquist, president of WAKC. “We have been fortunate to have Beth Pandol as executive direc tor for ten years and believe that Jenny will be able to seamlessly continue our mission.”
Holtermann will begin her duties on September 1, 2020.
Webinar with Tim Quinn
Click on this link to see the full webinar presentation with Tim Quinn, 7/28/2020.
2020 Kern County Water Summit presentations
If you missed the Kern County Water Summit on March 4, you missed a great event! The speakers were outstanding. Here are some of the presentations from the day:
CV-SALTS – Oc tober 29 presentations available
Here are the pdfs of the presentations from the Oc tober 29 CV-SALTS discussion.CVSC Bakersfield 2019 Rodgers_Introduction_Bakersfield_102919 Meyerhoff_Salinity_Bakersfield_102919
Proposition 3 overview with Gerald Meral
An overview of Proposition 3 is available here:
