[env-trinity] Brown Names Bill Croyle Acting Director of CA Department of Water Resources

[Dan Bacher]

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/12/15/1611383/-Brown-Names-Bill-Croyle-Acting-Director-of-CA-Department-of-Water-Resources



Brown Names Bill Croyle Acting Director of CA Department of Water  
Resources

by Dan Bacher

Governor Jerry Brown has named Bill Croyle as the acting director of  
the Department of Water Resources, according to an internal memo from  
John Laird, the Secretary for Natural Resources of California, sent to  
DWR employees on December 13.

Croyle will replace Mark Cowin, who is retiring after 36 years with  
the agency, including nearly 7 years as DWR director. Croyle will  
assume his new position on January 1, 2017.

Croyle will take the helm of the agency as Governor Jerry Brown’s  
“legacy” project, the Delta Tunnels/California WaterFix, faces  
increasing opposition from fishermen, Tribal leaders,  
conservationists, environmental justice advocates, scientists and  
elected officials because it would destroy West Coast salmon and other  
fish populations and devastate family farms and communities throughout  
the Delta.

Mr. Croyle joined the Department in August of 2007 and served more  
than six years as Chief of Flood Operations, according to Laird. He is  
currently the Deputy Director for Emergency Preparedness and Security.

Before joining DWR, he worked for more than 23 years for the Central  
Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board.  Mr. Croyle is a  
registered professional engineer with a B.S. in civil engineering from  
California State University, Sacramento.

“Please join me in congratulating Bill and giving him full support in  
his new role,” said Laird to the DWR employees.

“My colleagues and I at the Natural Resources Agency also express  
gratitude to Mark Cowin, who retires December 31 after nearly seven  
years as director of DWR,” said Laird. “He started in the department’s  
Fresno office 36 years ago as a civil engineering graduate of Stanford  
University. Mark has served California well as a pragmatic, empathetic  
statesman in perennial water resources conflicts. His energy and  
talent have been crucial to the development of water policy -  
including the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act and a $7.5  
billion water bond — that will serve future Californians well.”

Laird said Cowin “will continue to serve the administration in an  
advisory role.”

Mike Jackson, legal counsel for the California Water Impact Network (C- 
WIN), responded to news of Croyle’s appointment by stating, “He is a  
dedicated public servant and will be very loyal to the department that  
he heads. I don't seen much difference between him and Mark Cowin.”

Jackson did note that Croyle understands water quality better than  
most DWR employees. “Hopefully, his water quality experience will  
result in him telling the Governor about the terrible water quality  
problems that will be compounded by the California WaterFix,” said  
Jackson.

Carl Torgersen, the DWR Chief Deputy Director, will also be retiring  
from his position at the  agency at the end of 2016. Who will replace  
him has not been made public yet.

Read the DWR memo here:  DWR Memo from John Laird
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