Virtual Speaker Talk:
Preparing for Floods and Droughts
in the Pajaro Valley and Pajaro River Watershed
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Community members are invited to register for the upcoming Pajaro Compass Network Fall Stakeholder Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 from 10:00am-12:00pm. The theme for this upcoming meeting is “Preparing for the Here, Now, and Future: Droughts and Floods in the Pajaro River Watershed”. The meeting will take place virtually and feature speakers from both the Upper and Lower Pajaro Watershed who will present on topics around flood prevention, green infrastructure and community engagement, flood prediction, and climate change implications for the future of the watershed.
What: Pajaro Compass Network Fall Stakeholder Meeting
Theme: Preparing for the Here, Now, and Future: Droughts and Floods in the Pajaro River Watershed
When: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022 – 10:00am-12:00pm
Where: Zoom (Zoom link and meeting agenda will be sent to registrants)
Registration: Please follow the link HERE TO REGISTER
Featured speakers include:
- Damaris Villalobos-Galindo, Project Engineer, Santa Clara Valley Water District
- Samantha Greene, Senior Water Resources Specialist, Santa Clara Valley Water District
- Jeff Micko MS, Project Engineer, Micko Consultants
- Mark Strudley, Ph.D., Executive Director, Pajaro Regional Flood Control Management Agency
- Jackie McCloud, Environmental Sustainability Division Manager, City of Watsonville
- Jonathan Pilch, Executive Director, Watsonville Wetlands Watch
- Marcus Mendiola, Water Conservation & Outreach Specialist, Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency
The Pajaro River watershed is an area of approximately 1,300 square miles, and includes portions of three mountain ranges: Santa Cruz, Gabilan and Diablo. The Pajaro River watershed’s rivers, tributaries, and creeks ultimately drain into Monterey Bay. Geologically complex, the Pajaro River watershed straddles the Pacific and North American Plates, bisected by the active San Andreas Fault. Lying within four counties—Santa Clara and Santa Cruz in the north, and San Benito and Monterey in the south—the region includes the cities of Gilroy, Watsonville, and Hollister and a population of approximately 140,000 people.
The Pajaro River watershed includes productive farms and ranches, rich natural areas, and culturally significant places, all at the intersection of expanding communities and growing infrastructure networks. While complex, this landscape also holds great opportunity for both nature conservation and productive agriculture, due to the many ways in which these places and stakeholders overlap.
The Pajaro Compass supports a committed group of partners who champion these many values of the Pajaro River watershed for people and nature and, through coordinated action, ensure that agricultural and open space lands support these values in balance with new opportunities. The Pajaro Compass provides a dynamic gateway for landowners and managers, public agencies, conservation organizations, funders, and elected officials to learn, connect, and engage in efforts to maintain a healthy and productive Pajaro River watershed.
For more information about the Pajaro Compass Network, please visit pajarocompass.org.
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