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Finally, some good news for Westlands Water District

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 23, 2009 at 7:23 am

From the Hanford Sentinel:

Westlands Water District growers found out Tuesday they’ll be getting 10 percent of their water delivered instead of 0 percent. The announcement came from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The Bureau runs the Central Valley Project, the massive federal system that brings water from Northern California and sends it to farmers and urban residents in the southern half of the state via massive pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. March storms allowed for the increase, a Bureau press release stated.

But the announcement means little in terms of planting decisions that were made months ago. Most growers decided to let the majority of their ground lie fallow after hearing in January that Westlands would get no water.

The amount of unplanted ground in western Kings and Fresno counties is a sign of the times, with drought and endangered species cutbacks curtailing the delta pumps and drying up the huge stretch of Westlands acreage that drivers zoom past on Interstate 5 in the San Joaquin Valley.

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April 23, 2009 · Filed Under Westlands Water District

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