The News Review:
- Commissioner Connor Announces $40 Million in Economic Relief …
- Idaho orders shut down of groundwater wells
- Water wars threaten Gwinnett
- California Receives $18 Million for Agricultural Water Enhancement …
- Tunnel under delta could be alternative to canal
Commissioner Connor Announces $40 Million in Economic Relief …
7thSpace Interactive (press release)
The total funding for California water-related activities under the Interior portion of ARRA is $391 million to expand water supplies repair aging water infrastructure and address drought mitigation. In addition to ARRA funding for drought Reclamation has approved 265000 acre feet of water transfers this year to help get water where it is needed most. Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources have created a Drought Water Bank a measure that will make additional supplies of water obtainable now and in future times of drought or shortage. The Drought Water Bank acquisition team may purchase water from willing sellers upstream of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and transfer the water to willing buyers using State Water Project or Central Valley Project facilities. Reclamation also administers the Challenge Grant Program that funds proposals from irrigation and water districts that want to leverage their money and resources in partnership with Reclamation to make more efficient use of existing water supplies through water conservation and water marketing projects. Secretary Salazar has pledged unprecedented levels of transparency and accountability in the implementation of the Department’s economic recovery projects.
Idaho orders shut down of groundwater wells
Forbes
The Idaho Department of Water Resources issued a curtailment order last week targeting 250 water right holders in parts of seven counties. com%2Ffeeds%2Fap%2F2009%2F07%2F31%2Fap6725875.
Water wars threaten Gwinnett
Atlanta Journal Constitution
”Publix with 11 stores in Gwinnett is among the county’s top water users slurping an average of nearly 342000 gallons a day just in June. And like most corporate and residential users Publix looks to local state and federal officials to ensure a steady flow of an increasingly valuable commodity. “We rely on the government to provide a sustainable water supply for its citizens and businesses” Publix spokeswoman Brenda Reid said. “Therefore we look forward to their recommendations and solutions. ”So too do Sullivan Stephens and Bannister. All realize that the solution to Gwinnett’s “draconian” water situation is in the hands of Gov. Sonny Perdue his Alabama and Florida counterparts the courts and Congress.
California Receives $18 Million for Agricultural Water Enhancement …
PR Newswire (press release)
Applications from individual agricultural producers within a given AWEP project area are ranked according to the conservation resource need. Producers whose applications are selected enter into individual contracts with NRCS. Approved California AWEP projects are: rganization Project Description 2009 Award ———— ——- ———– ———- Tulare Tulare Enhance water supply by Irrigation Irrigation implementing water District District quality and quantity measures. More efficient irrigation systems from high to low pressure systems $500000 —— ———– ———————– ——— Lava Beds Lost River Improve irrigation Butte Valley and Butte efficiency and nutrient & Klamath Valley management restore County Soil Watersheds wetland habitat (60000 and Water acres) Conservation District $250000 ————- ———– ———————– ——— North Improving Focus on lowering water Cal-Neva Water temperature increasing Resource Quality and dissolved oxygen and Conservation Quantity in reducing amount of & the Upper nutrients entering the Development Pit River. Pit River Council $520000 ————- ———– ———————– ——– Sutter County Gilsizer Install 40 high Resource Slough efficiency irrigation Conservation systems (50% water District saving); Adopt nutrient and pest management practices for 40 producers; Install 40 vegetative cover crops and filter strips etc. $1150000 ————- ———– ———————– ———- California Northern Increase the reliability Land California of agriculture water Stewardship Wine supply; Improve stream Institute Country flow and water quality; Agricultural Improve water use Water efficiency etc.
Tunnel under delta could be alternative to canal
San Diego Union Tribune
July 31 2009 ‘ — SACRAMENT ? A possible answer to Southern California’s water-delivery woes has emerged right underfoot literally. The state Department of Water Resources is exploring the price and engineering challenges associated with digging a roughly 35-mile tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to bring more supplies to Southern California. ?We don’t have the costs worked out? said Lester Snow California’s water chief. ?We have to look at the trade-off between the extra costs of tunneling and how it compares to a canal. ? Although still in its early stages the tunnel proposal intrigues water managers frustrated by the inability to secure sufficient supplies ? especially during the state’s prolonged drought ? and worried that they may never overcome fierce resistance to building a new above-ground canal. In 1982 voters rejected a measure to construct the 43-mile Peripheral Canal designed to move water through the delta and toward thirsty cities and farms.
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