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Department of Water Resources releases State Water Project Delivery Reliability Report – available online

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on January 28, 2008 at 5:46 pm

dwr-logobig_thumb.gifSACRAMENTO –The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released the Draft State Water Project Delivery Reliability Report 2007. This report updates DWR’s estimate of its ability to maintain current (2007) and future (2027) State Water Project delivery reliability.

The report, issued every two years, also identifies factors that may impact water availability and changes that can be made to improve future water supply reliability. The draft will be available for public comment and review for 45 days.

The report concludes that continued declines in water supply reliability are likely if water delivery through the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta remains unchanged. Additional factors that could inhibit water delivery include Delta pumping restrictions to help protect threatened and endangered species and the near-term effects of climate change.

Based on historical data, the analysis shows that annual SWP deliveries would decrease virtually every year in the future, and by as much as 20 percent from current levels one-quarter of the time.

Though California faces an uncertain water future if adjustments aren’t made to current practices, DWR is committed to finding solutions that meet the supply needs of all sectors of water users. Discoveries made through Gov. Schwarzenegger’s Delta Vision process and the Bay/Delta Conservation Planning process have reached important conclusions about the need to change the way water is conveyed across or around the Delta. Investigations to address new methods of conveyance that will protect fish and improve water supply reliability will continue into 2008.

The full Draft State Water Project Delivery Reliability Report 2007 may be reviewed online at http://baydeltaoffice.water.ca.gov/swpreliability/. Local agencies and State Water Project contractors can incorporate this information into their water management plans as appropriate as information in the report may affect local land use decisions.

Comments are encouraged and may be submitted through March 13, 2008 to comments-on-2007drr@water.ca.gov.

January 28, 2008 · Filed Under DWR & State Water Project, Water Agency News (all)

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