[env-trinity] Sac Bee October 31

[Byron Leydecker]

Placer agency sells 20,000 acre-feet
jdowning at sacbee.com
Published Friday, Oct. 31, 2008

Placer County Water Agency has sold 20,000 acre-feet of water for $2.5
million to the Westlands Water District, which provides irrigation water to
farmers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

The sale is the agency's first to a buyer outside the region since 2001,
according to Director of Strategic Affairs Einar Maisch.

An acre-foot is 325,581 gallons.

PCWA and Westlands are still awaiting approval of the water transfer from
the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Maisch said Wednesday.

The sale will not impact the availability of water for the agency's regular
customers, he said.

 

Byron Leydecker, JCT

Chair, Friends of Trinity River

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810

415 519 4810 cell

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org (secondary)

http://fotr.org 

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