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State Water Project ups allocation to Central Valley

Sierra snowpack in 2006
Sierra snowpack in 2006
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The California State Water Project says the heavy snowfall in the Sierra will allow Central Valley buyers of water from SWP to get a slight bump in water deliveries.  Before this most recent determination water allocation to the customers in the valley had been set at five percent.  Now the delivery will be fifteen percent of contracted amounts.

“This is still one of the lowest allocations in the history of the State Water Project,” says Director Mark Cowin of the California Department of Water Resources.

According to the Central Valley Business Times, Cowin predicted that eventual water deliveries will be up to 35 to 40 percent.

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