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Wednesday, 12 November 2008 18:38

SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA

New storage and conveyance will help provide water for Delta ecosystems and improved water supply reliability for the state’s farms, homes and businesses.

Water delivered from the State Water Project originates at Lake Oroville and flows to the Sacramento River and then through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta before traveling southward via the California Aqueduct. This flow has been restricted following a federal

judge’s 2007 ruling that operation of the Delta pumps endangers a 2-inch fish on the threatened list of the Endangered Species Act. According to the following graph, a portion of the water that flows through the Delta and to the Pacific Ocean in wet years can be captured and used to balance water shortages in dry years.

A State-sponsored study is nearing completion that will result in a recommendation to Gov. Schwarzenegger regarding, among other items, how best to continue the conveyance of water through the Delta.

Learn more about the San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta

Delta Vulnerabilities

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