The collection consists of reports, meeting minutes, agendas, notes, speeches, legal documents, contracts, and other materials related to California water issues in the 1960s and 1970s.

The collection consists of press releases, speeches (many by former DWR Directors), news clippings, reports, photographs, and miscellaneous memoranda on California water resources development during the period 1950-1965.

The colleciton consists of reports on the activities of the Department and speeches relating to the construction and financing of the State Water Project and particular sub-projects, and to the growing political controversy surrounding state water policy.

Papers include legislative histories of San Luis Act of 1959, Reclamation Act of 1902, Central Valley Project Act of 1933, and the Federal Power Act; also includes cumulated material on "unjust enrichment" in operation of State Water Project and on court cases involving the Dept. of Water Resources in period 1950-65; files on State Water Project financing.

The collection consists of speeches relating to the activities of the District, the State Water Project, and water resources development in the San Francisco Bay Area, particularly the North Bay Aqueduct.

The collection consists of correspondence, news clippings, memoranda, office files, legal documents, drafts of legislation, and transcripts of hearings. Principal topics include area planning, flood control and drainage, garbage and refuse collection and disposal, sewerage and industrial wastes, water quality management, water resources development (both state and federal), and water supply and distribution.

The Ronald B. Robie papers consist of files and documents assembled by Robie during his years with the Assembly Committee on Water, the State Water Resources Control Board, and the California Department of Water Resources. The collection contains materials whose dates span from 1963-1982; the majority, however, are concentrated in the period from 1967-1979.

The collection consists of the working papers for the Task Force's final report, published in 1982 by the California Commission for Economic Development. Includes report materials pertaining to levees, hydrology of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and the Peripheral Canal.

The collection consists of correspondence, draft reports, papers, and news clippings pertaining to water resources development issues regarding State of California, Marin County, and San Francisco Bay Area.