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Donald Bader Selected as the New Area Manager for Reclamation’s Northern California Area Office

Media Contact: Shane Hunt, 916-978-5100, shunt@usbr.gov

For Release: September 28, 2016

Donald Bader, New NCAO Area ManagerSHASTA LAKE, Calif. – The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region announces that Donald Bader has been selected as the Area Manager for the Northern California Area Office (NCAO) at Shasta Dam.

“Don has successfully collaborated with both internal and external stakeholders to meet our diverse and challenging goals,” stated Deputy Regional Director Pablo Arroyave. “Based on his impressive tenure with Reclamation and experience with supervision, Operations and Maintenance (O&M), resources management, security, Safety of Dams and recreation management, Don will be a great asset in his new position.”

As the Area Manager, Bader is responsible for managing a staff of 170 people, all programs and facilities within the Shasta and Trinity Divisions of the Central Valley Project, along with the Orland Project and the Trinity River Restoration Program (TRRP). These divisions include thirteen dams with a combined storage capacity of nearly 9 million acre-feet and six powerplants with a combined nameplate capacity of over 1,200 megawatts.

Bader was formerly the NCAO Deputy Area Manager. His duties included directly overseeing the Environmental, Security and Safety, and Water and Lands Divisions, as well as providing oversight for the TRRP. He also served as the O&M Director, and responsible for all O&M Program accomplishments for NCAO power plants, dams and associated facilities. Prior to his position at NCAO, he was responsible for the O&M Program at Hoover Dam on the Colorado River, Boulder City, Nevada.

Bader graduated from the University of Wyoming with a degree in Civil Engineering; he is a registered Professional Engineer. His wife, Julie, is a Reclamation Electrical Engineer at the Mid-Pacific Regional Office. They have three daughters, Andrea, Rachel and Natalie.

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