Water supply, water rights and other legal issues at the East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1972-1993
By: Robert B. Maddow ; with an introduction by Gayle B. Montgomery. Interviews conducted by Germaine LaBerge in 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: LaBerge, Germaine.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2003
Subjects: Maddow, Robert B., 1943-; East Bay Municipal Utility District -- History.; Environmental Defense Fund.; Water rights -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Water-supply -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.; Mokelumne River (Calif.); American River (Calif.)
Other titles: East Bay Municipal Utility District oral history series.
Description: Childhood in Arizona and southern California; Stanford University, B.A., 1964; Hastings College of the Law, J.D., 1967; U.S. Air Force, 1967-1972; contracts, military justice, other legal work; East Bay Municipal Utility District, 1972-1993: water rights, utilities and environmental law; preserving Mokelumne and American rivers water rights, including EDF v. EBMUD, 1972-1993; affirmative action; responses to drought; recreational facilities at reservoirs; Penn Mine; reflections on Vietnam War, relations with state and federal water agencies, EBMUD management and board of directors.

Copy of California Senate bill no. 2458 (1986), relating to water rights; transcript of EBMUD board meeting, September 14, 1993; clippings.