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They estimate the project would yield about 500,000 acre-feet per year — a significant amount but a fraction of California’s annual water needs. Delta farmers, residents, regional Native ...
The approved Delta Conveyance project is facing legal opposition from Delta water groups and environmental advocates. Environmentalists, local agencies file lawsuits against California Delta ...
The Metropolitan Water District's board is set to vote in December on whether to spend $141.6 million for planning of the proposed Delta tunnel project. California water agency considers spending ...
Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $20 billion [1] plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot (11 m) diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by ...
A new analysis shows that building a California water tunnel would cost $20 billion. State officials say the project's benefits would far outweigh the costs.
The Delta provides an estimated seven million acre-feet (2.1 cu mi; 8.6 km 3) of water per year, of which about 100,000 acre-feet (0.030 cu mi; 0.12 km 3) are exported to the San Francisco Bay Area, 1.7 million acre-feet (0.50 cu mi; 2.1 km 3) are used locally, and over five million acre-feet (1.5 cu mi; 6.2 km 3) are exported to the San ...
A Delta water-delivery project — one tunnel or two — has been touted by Jerry Brown and Newsom’s teams as a way of correcting a fundamental problem with California’s delivery system that ...
California Reclamation Districts are legal subdivisions within California's Central Valley that are responsible for managing and maintaining the levees, fresh water channels, or sloughs (pronounced slü), [1] canals, pumps, and other flood protection structures in the area. Each is run autonomously and is run by an elected board and funded with ...