Kirk Rodgers
Mid-Pacific Regional Director

As Regional Director for the Mid-Pacific Region, Kirk Rodgers oversees the management of Reclamation's water projects in an area encompassing the northern two-thirds of California, most of northern Nevada, and a portion of southern Oregon.

Appointed Regional Director in February 2002, Rodgers is responsible for one of Reclamation's best-known projects, California's Central Valley Project (CVP), the largest irrigation project in the Nation. The CVP provides urban water for more than 3 million people, irrigation water to more than 3 million acres, industrial water for key economic areas of California such as the Silicon Valley, and environmental water for wildlife needs and fishery restoration, and also generates some 5.6 billion kilowatt hours of electricity annually.

At the time of his appointment, Rodgers was Deputy Regional Director, responsible for managing the Region's Area Offices located in Klamath Falls, Oregon; Carson City, Nevada; and Redding, Folsom, and Fresno, California; and for the MP Construction Office in Willows and the Central Valley Operations Office in Sacramento. Rodgers served as the Acting Regional Director from February to October 1999 and again from March 2001 to February 2002.

During Rodgers' tenure, several major water management issues were finalized, including the decision to dedicate 800,000 acre-feet of water for fish and wildlife restoration under the 1992 Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA), the release of the CVPIA's Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, and the beginning of the re-negotiation of long-term water contracts for CVP water users. Rodgers also oversees Reclamation's involvement in CALFED, the largest and most comprehensive water management effort in the Nation.

Rodgers joined Reclamation in July 1973 on the Minidoka Project in southeastern Idaho. He came to the Mid-Pacific Region in 1981 as the Regional Property Management Officer and was later promoted to the Regional Supply and Services Officer. From July 1987 to September 1992, he was Project Manager of the Klamath Project in Klamath Falls, Oregon. From October 1992 to March 1996, Rodgers was the head of the Region's Office of Water Policy and Allocation where he was responsible for implementation of the CVPIA. In March 1996, he was selected as the Assistant Regional Director. Previously, he had been in Washington D.C. participating in the Department of the Interior's Managers Development Program and working on a variety of policy issues.

Rodgers has received numerous career special service awards during his 30-year career with Reclamation.

He and his wife, Donna, have six children and 12 grandchildren.

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