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Resolution No. 05-152
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
OF THE COUNTY OF BUTTE
HONORING ED CRADDOCK ON HIS RETIREMENT
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock upon graduating from CSU, Sacramento in 1973, left the
private sector to pursue a career of public service in natural resource management; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock began his public service working as a Supervisory Resource
Management Technician at Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity Recreation Area in 1973; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock served as a State Park Ranger at Folsom Lake State
Recreation Area in 1974; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock completed his graduate level training at the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1975 and 1976 wherein he managed the Forest Soils Lab and received
a Master of Science in Natural Resources; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock returned to California in 1977 and accepted a position with
the California Energy Commission; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock worked for both the Department of Conservation and the
State Water Resources Control Board in 1978 through 1980; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock began his management career with the Department of Water
Resources from 1981 through 1988 serving as the Chief of the Agricultural Water Conservation
Branch; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock developed such programs as the California Irrigation
Management Information System which now boasts over 120 weather stations throughout the
state including one positioned at the CSU, Chico Farm; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock developed procedures with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to
create numerous Mobile Irrigation Laboratories leading to the Tehama County Mobile Lab,
which now partners with the Butte County Resource Conservation District to serve the
agricultural community of Butte County; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock, from 1989 to 1994 managed the Land and Water Use
Program for the Department of Water Resources, and in this position served as a Primary author
of Bulletin 160-93, the California Water Plan Update, and Bulletin 166-4, Urban Water Use in
California; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock participated in the development of some of the first water use
models, digitized mapping procedures and GIS programs for land use planning; that included
land use surveys of Butte County; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock managed the Office of Water Use Efficiency from 1995
through July 1999 and oversaw the development of urban and agricultural water management
plans including some that guide water management in Butte County; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock served as the first Director of the Butte County Department of
Water and Resource Conservation beginning in August 1999; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock immediately began work on the Butte County Water
Inventory and Analysis which was completed in 2001; and
WHEREAS, in 2001 Ed Craddock pursued and ratified a cooperative Memorandum of
Understanding amongst water purveyors within the Paradise Ridge community resulting in
cooperative work plans by 2004; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock was instrumental in the formation of the Butte County
Resource Conservation District, which was finalized in 2002; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock contributed immensely to the implementation of the
Groundwater Conservation Ordinance codified as Chapter 33 of the Butte County Code; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock assumed management of the Butte Basin Groundwater Model
on behalf of the County in 2001 and secured outside funding to revise that model to IGSM II in
2002, resulting in a completed conversion in 2003 and initial calibration in 2004; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock oversaw the expansion of the groundwater level monitoring
system throughout the county, resulting in the completion of the network as recommended by the
Water Commission Technical Advisory Committee in 2003 using funding secured under AB
303; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock completed the Butte County AB3030 Groundwater
Management Plan in 2004; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock initiated the development of Basin Management Objectives
for the valley area of the county and brought forward the Groundwater Management Ordinance,
approved by the Board in 2004; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock pursued the funding and development of the Butte County
Integrated Water Resources Plan in 2002, which was approved by the Board in June 2005; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock has proposed that $22,000,000 in state grant funding be used
for the implementation of the Integrated Water Resources Plan; and
WHEREAS, Ed Craddock will be greatly missed by all who were fortunate enough to
have worked with him and received his guidance, both personally and professionally.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors of the
County of Butte hereby determine that Ed Craddock be recognized and honored for his
unequaled dedication and outstanding contribution to the conservation of our natural resources
through public service in Butte County and throughout the State of California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Butte County Board of Supervisors this thirteenth day
of December 2005 by the following votes:
AYES: Supervisors Connelly, Dolan, Houx, Josiassen and Chair Yamaguchi
NOES: None - ,;
ABSENT: None
NOT VOTING: None
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KIM K. YAMAGUCHI, Chair
ATTEST:
PAUL MCINTOSH, Chief Administrative Officer
And Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
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