Sonoma County Water Agency records,
Scope and Contents
Official documents of the Sonoma County Water Agency, including its Civil Engineering Division; Engineering and Tenchical Services; and subsidiary agencies for the Russian River and Sonoma Valley sanitation districts.
Dates
- Creation: 1959-2012
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access:
Materials stored offsite, but collection is open to research. In many cases, further details on individual volumes can be found by calling staff at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. To view these materials, please call staff at link to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library
Conditions Governing Use
Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at link
Biographical / Historical
The Sonoma County Water Agency was created as a special district in 1949 by the California Legislature to act as the local sponsor for federal flood protection and water supply projects known collectively as the Russian River Project.. Renamed Sonoma Water in 2018, the agency is a wholesale water supplier to nine cities and water districts that serve more than 600,000 residents in portions of Sonoma and Marin counties. In conjunction with the US Army Corps of Engineers, Sonoma Water manages and operates the Russian River water supply system. The agency also manages eight sanitation districts and zones in Sonoma County. (Source: link ; retrieved Dec. 11, 2019
Extent
6 Volumes
Abstract
Collection contains records of the Sonoma County Water Agency relating to water use and management of the Agency's properties throughout Sonoma County. Includes formal documents placing a valuation on property owned by the Agency and various reports on the amount of water pumped by the agency and stored or delivered to customers. Includes the Russian River and Sonoma Valley sanitation districts, both managed by the Water Agency.
Arrangement of the collection
Organized into four series and six subseries:
- 5.01.Construction files, Sonoma Valley Sanitation District , 1993-2012
- Title
- Sonoma County Water Agency records, 1959-2012
- Author
- Finding aid author: Mark Cooper.
- Date
- Published Feb 28, 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in:English
Repository Details
Part of the Sonoma County Archives Repository