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
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.
Click on this link to see the full webinar presentation with Tim Quinn, 7/28/2020.
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:
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
An overview of Proposition 3 is available here:
Here are the links to the presentations from the 2018 Kern County Water Summit
Learn more about how subsidence issues on the Friant-Kern Canal are causing multiple problems. A new bill circulating in Sacramen to could address some of these concerns. Learn more here about this critical issue.
Click below for the August 22 presentation by Mike Ming, Alliance Appraisal, on water and land values.
