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Bay Delta blog: Record of Decision for the Delta-Mendota Canal / California Aqueduct Intertie

Posted by: Maven on January 4, 2010 at 8:19 am

calif-aqueduct_delta-mendota1From the Bay Delta blog:

“Last week, in the final days of 2009, it was announced that the long-planned Delta Mendota Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie project finally got its Record of Decision from the U.S. Department of the Interior. The federal government, in its Interim Action Plan for the Bay-Delta (PDF), released on December 22, 2009, also listed the Intertie as a priority project to expedite, aiming to have construction start by June 2010 and completed by October 2011.

The $34 million proposed Intertie, which will be located in Alameda County generally west of Tracy, would connect the Delta-Mendota Canal, a federal facility, to the California Aqueduct, a state facility. The proposed project takes the form of a pipeline connection from milepost 7.2 of the Delta-Mendota to milepost 9 of the Aqueduct, where the state and federal projects are only about 500 feet apart. … “

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January 4, 2010 · Filed Under Central Valley Project, State Water Project (DWR)

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