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Peripheral canal no drought lifeline, Contra Costa water district finds

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 25, 2009 at 8:13 am

From the San Jose Mercury News:

A $10 billion plan to build a canal around the Delta would not deliver significantly more water to cities and farms if it were in place this year, new data shows.

Water agencies and politicians from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on down have repeatedly stressed that water shortages this year from the Bay Area to San Diego prove the need for such a canal. It would divert water around the Delta for delivery to farms and cities.

But numbers developed by a state-run planning group seeking to build the canal show it would not deliver more water in dry years, the Contra Costa Water District stated this week. “Consequently, all the same issues would have arisen about deliveries and operations,” Greg Gartrell, district assistant general manager, wrote this week to leaders in the planning effort, called the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.

A spokeswoman for the conservation plan said she had not seen the memo and that participants were still working through the report containing the data. “I imagine we’ll need to address these issues,” said Karla Nemeth.

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April 25, 2009 · Filed Under Peripheral Canal

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