OWOW Steering Committee Agendas and Minutes

The OWOW Steering Committee is composed of 11 elected officials from counties and cities in the watershed, representatives from the environmental, regulatory, and business communities, and representatives from SAWPA. The Steering Committee’s role is to serve as the developer of integrated regional water management goals and objectives for the watershed, and to act as the oversight body that performs strategic decision making, crafts and adopts programmatic suites of project recommendations, and provides program advocacy necessary to optimize water resource protection for all.

Regular OWOW Steering Committee meetings are held on the fourth Thursday of February, May, September and the third Thursday of November, at 11:00 a.m., in the SAWPA Board Room, 11615 Sterling Avenue, Riverside, CA 92503.

County
Supervisor Representatives

County
Municipal Representatives

Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority Representatives

Business Community Representative

Environmental Community Representative

Regional Water Quality Control Board Representative

  • Vicente Sarmiento
    Orange County Supervisor

    Jesse Armendarez
    San Bernardino County Supervisor

    Karen Spiegel
    Riverside County Supervisor

  • Nicholas Dunlap
    Orange County

    Wes Speake
    Riverside County

    Deborah Robertson
    San Bernardino County

  • Brenda Dennstedt (Convener)
    Western Municipal Water District

    T. Milford Harrison
    San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District

  • James Hessler
    Altman Plants

  • Garry W. Brown
    Orange County Coastkeeper

  • William "Bill" Ruh
    Board Member Santa Ana Region

2025 – Agendas and Minutes

Meeting Date Agenda Packet Presentations Handouts Minutes Miscellaneous
November 20, 2025
September 25, 2025
May 22, 2025
February 27, 2025

2024 – Agendas and Minutes

Meeting Date Agenda Packet Presentations Handouts Minutes Miscellaneous
November 21, 2024

Agenda

Packet

September 26, 2024

Agenda

Packet

Minutes

July 25, 2024

Notice of Cancellation

May 23, 2024

Agenda

Packet

Minutes

March 28, 2024

Agenda

Packet

Minutes

January 25, 2024

Notice of Cancellation

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