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The researchers warned that unless local agencies adopt more stringent measures or come up with backup plans, many people in the Central Valley could be left without access to drinking water, and ...
1983 Oct 2 - Republicans moves away from conservation on Central Valley water [472] 1984 May 5 - National Wildlife Federation says USBR under collected water fees by $10 billion [473] Nov 16 - Federal plan to dump Central Valley waste water into Pacific attacked [474] 1985 Mar 30 - Interior Dept plan to stop dumping Central Valley toxics into ...
Consisting of both the San Joaquin Valley and Sacramento Valley, the Central Valley has an estimated two-thirds of the state's cropland with 7 million acres. [6] California is also the leading dairy producer in the country, with 1.8 million mature cows in the Central Valley contributing to 80% of California's dairies.
San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District 28,800 35,500 0.7% San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency 17,300 21,300 4.2% San Luis Obispo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 25,000 31,000 0.6% Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 45,486 56,106 1.1% Santa Clara Valley Water District 100,000 120,000 2.4%
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The federal government, through the U.S. Department of the Interior and its water-regulating subsidiary Bureau of Reclamation, control the Central Valley Project that sends water to San Joaquin ...
The Central Valley is an agriculturally productive region dependent on large volumes of irrigation water. This region is considered arid to semiarid and is reliant on infrastructure to deliver water. The Central Valley is prone to excessive flooding due to snowmelt from the surrounding Sierra Nevada mountain range in the spring. A controlled ...
A community's Wellhead Protection Program must add in any new water well that serves a public water supply system. A demonstration program which protects designated aquifers is required. Additionally, EPA must impose monitoring requirements on water systems for contaminants which have not yet been regulated [ 7 ]