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Feinstein, Boxer want to add money to San Joaquin River Restoration

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on January 7, 2009 at 6:20 am

From the Modesto Bee:

Some familiar San Joaquin Valley priorities are being resurrected in the 111th Congress, which began Tuesday. Potentially, the new Congress could restore the San Joaquin River; provide money for a Yosemite-area school; design an irrigation drainage cleanup for the valley’s West Side; and help distressed homeowners.

“Unless you solve the mortgage meltdown, you won’t be able to stabilize the economy,” Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Merced, said Tuesday.

Cardoza, like his valley colleagues, is carrying over to the new Congress some old ideas left unfinished in the 110th Congress.

And Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer reintroduced legislation restoring water flows and salmon to the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam. The bill, shrunk from previous versions, provides $88 million over 10 years to the project that will receive funding from other sources.

Read more from the Modesto Bee by clicking here.

The Central Valley Business Times has more information:

The San Joaquin River restoration settlement would get the money needed to be implemented under a bill introduced Tuesday by California’s two U.S. Senators, Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.

“This legislation will authorize and help fund a settlement that restores California’s second longest river, while maintaining a stable water supply for the farmers who have made the San Joaquin Valley the richest agricultural area in the world,” says Ms. Feinstein.

She says the settlement must be funded quickly lest the now-agreeable parties to it resume their decades of water wars. “It is the only way to prevent a return to years of contentious court battles,” she says.

Much more information in the Central Valley Business Times - click here.

January 7, 2009 · Filed Under San Joaquin River Restoration

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