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California may cut its water rations; Morro Bay likely to get hit hard

Posted by: Maven on December 4, 2009 at 5:49 am

From the San Luis Obispo Tribune:

“As California goes into a possible fourth year of drought, water agencies throughout San Luis Obispo County are bracing for the possibility that they will receive record-low deliveries from the State Water Project next year.

State officials announced earlier this week that they expect to be able to deliver only 5 percent of the system’s normal capacity due to low reservoir levels, diminished snow packs in the Sierra Nevada and environmental pumping restrictions.

Ten water agencies in the county get varying amounts of water from the system that supplies 23 million people and 755,000 acres of irrigated farmland statewide.

Morro Bay gets between 80 and 90 percent of its water from the state and will be among the hardest hit, said Dylan Wade, the city’s utility manager. Normally, Morro Bay receives 1,313 acre-feet from the state, but it is now scheduled to get only 180 acre-feet.

“It’s a big, ugly thing,” Wade said. “It’s going to be real tight for us.” … “

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December 4, 2009 · Filed Under Central Coast

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