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Few Central Valley plans currently include an evaluation of how many wells could fail, authors said. ... as well as 21% of the 5,259 wells that supply public water systems — a burden that’s ...
Many CVP water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association. In addition to water storage and regulation, the system has a hydroelectric capacity of over 2,000 megawatts , and provides recreation and flood control with its twenty dams and reservoirs.
A recent study estimated that nearly 1.5 million people in the Central Valley rely on public water systems that may have moderate or high levels of arsenic. Elevated nitrate levels may affect more ...
Calls for a comprehensive statewide water management system (complementing the extensive, but primarily irrigation-based Central Valley Project) led to the creation of the California Department of Water Resources in 1956. The following year, the preliminary studies were compiled into the extensive California Water Plan, or Bulletin No. 3.
The San Joaquin Valley for example hosts one third of California's failing water systems, [21] and supplies water to one third of the state's residents with high poverty rates. [22] Federally recognized Tribal water systems included in the SWRCB' SAFER Drinking Program face data insufficiency for at-risk water system assessment. [23]
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Map of water storage and delivery facilities as well as major rivers and cities in the state of California. Central Valley Project systems are in red, and State Water Project in blue. California's interconnected water system serves almost 40 million people and irrigates over 5,680,000 acres (2,300,000 ha) of farmland. [1]
The California State Water Project and the Central Valley Project are the two main projects diverting surface water into the valley. This system helps prevent spring flooding and summer and fall water shortages. Farmers use a combination of surface water and groundwater for irrigation. During drought years there is less surface water being ...