[env-trinity] Enough Water for Central Valley

[Josh Allen]

Enough Water for Central Valley

 

Trinity Journal

May 24, 2006

150th Year, No. 21

 

The Bureau of Reclamation has announced that the Central Valley Project
allocation will be 100% for all water users for Water Year 2006.

 

Although the bureau uses a conservative forecast to determine the water
supply available for the CVP water users, extremely wet conditions and
high runoff through the end of April have provided sufficient water to
make 100% of contractual obligations available to CVP South of Delta
agricultural water service contractors.

 

This is the first time in 10 years that a 100% allocation of water
supplies has been available to those contractors. The 5 year historic
average is 70%.

 

The water year for the Trinity River instream flow release is classified
as extremely wet with a water supply allocation of 815,000 acre-feet.

 

For more information on the Water Year 2006 water supply, contact the
public affairs office at (916)978-5100, TDD (916)978-5608. Additional
information will continue to be posted on the Central Valley Operations
Website at www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo/. 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www2.dcn.org/pipermail/env-trinity/attachments/20060525/8f4a67c0/attachment.html>