The table below provides a summary of the workshops held, including links to meeting materials and recordings.
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Humboldt River Conjunctive Management Workshops |
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| June 10 & 11, 2025 | Topics: recent actions, development and purpose of working group, NDWR's decision-making process, conjunctive management ideas, process, draft curtailment order; evidence defining the problem, middle basin model update, potential solutions, offsets; quantification tool, query tool | |
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March 19, 2024 |
Topics: timeline, summary of conjunctive management ideas, forming stakeholder working group; conjunctive management paper on Humboldt River Basin issues |
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| September 26, 2023 |
Concept Presentations: Conservation via better Humboldt Decree management; Future water management in Humboldt River; Distant groundwater pumping for flow augmentation; Funding for Water Master, management & gaging; Updated conjunctive management white paper; Flow probabilities by river segment; Humboldt River valuation & transaction strategies; Nature-based solutions on Humboldt Rive; Modeling updates for cost allocation |
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| September 6, 2023 | Concept presentations: Future conjunctive management in Humboldt River; options for conjunctive management; Implications of priority-based curtailments & Colorado-style augmentation; USCID & other conjunctive management papers; Water rights retirement in Humboldt River; Conservation via retirement & recommendations from water management schools; Groundwater duty management as a tool; Potential for ASR in Lovelock Valley; ASR using floodwater in Paradise Valley | |
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August 1, 2023
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Topics: timeline, capture management zone, conservancy district, curtailment zone, exemptions. Concept presentations: Municipal strategies for conjunctive use; Curtail by priority; Manage conjunctively by priority; Regulate all use by priority; Manage by impact, implemented by basin; Critical groundwater management areas as a tool (Oregon example); Groundwater management areas & mitigation measures (Idaho example) |
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| March 28, 2023 | Topics: informational update, 2023 water supply, model report status and timeline, example model uses for conjunctive management, process for conjunctive management framework | |
| March 8 & 9, 2022 | Meeting Packet | Topics: water supply update, forecast, capture 101, study overview, region wide ET analysis, model results, middle basin model, lower basin model, capture map, Order 1329, conjunctive management framework |