Water Education Foundation
This is just one post in the Transfers Category
Click here to view all posts

Already moving south, foothills water might move west

Posted by: Maven on February 6, 2010 at 7:20 am

From the Amador Ledger-Dispatch:

“For supporters of local water for locals, future opponents lie not to the south, but to the west.

Following in the footsteps of the federal Central Valley Project and California’s State Water Project, which largely benefited the south of the state, is a third big idea for diverting water. It is the brain child of a string of agencies that fall roughly on an east-west line from Alpine County to Alameda County. It advances not a statewide diversion fate for all northern California water but rather a multi-regional diversion plan for Mokelumne River water.

The idea arose in 2005 among the 16 members of a consortium called the Mokelumne River Forum. The forum is “made up primarily of water agencies and local governments with an interest in the Mokelumne River … to discuss how to meet water management needs in the Sierra foothills, San Joaquin County and the East Bay while resolving long-standing water-rights disputes,” its officials say. … “

Read more from the Amador Ledger-Dispatch by clicking here.

February 6, 2010 · Filed Under Transfers

Comments

Leave a Reply