Yuba County Water Agency Could Ship Billions Of Gallons Of Water To Bay Area Amid Drought

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YUBA COUNTY (CBS13) — California needs h2o and 1 section h2o bureau wants to instrumentality a large measurement toward helping counties successful information of going dry.

The Yuba Water Agency could merchantability and vessel billions of gallons of h2o to Marin County done a pipeline crossed a bridge.

This pipeline would beryllium built crossed the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. There’s nary authoritative terms tag for this task conscionable yet, but the Marin Independent Journal estimates it could beryllium much than $10 million.

Under the transportation agreement, the Yuba Water Agency would merchantability astatine slightest 10,000 acre-feet of h2o to the Contra Costa Water District and East Bay Municipal Utility District from its caller Bullards Bar Reservoir.

The determination would assistance marque up for shortages successful those districts arsenic the drought continues.

So however could this interaction you and your supply?

“This statement does not alteration the mode we run oregon however overmuch h2o we merchandise astatine all,” said Willie Whittlesey, the wide manager of the Yuba County Water Agency. “This is conscionable a alteration successful wherever a comparatively tiny information of h2o we’re already releasing goes.”

The wide manager says the wealth generated would assistance wage for a assortment of Yuba County projects, including reducing flood and occurrence risks and boosting h2o education.

As for what comes next: Boards for the bureau and 2 districts person to ballot and finalize the presumption of the agreement, which could propulsion them into aboriginal adjacent year.

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The authorities besides has to o.k. the transfer.