Thursday’s Top of the Scroll: San Luis Reservoir, One of California’s Largest, Would Grow Bigger Under Proposed $360 Million Expansion
From the San Jose Mercury News:
“On a summer day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy helicoptered into the hot, dusty grasslands between Gilroy and Los Banos and pushed a dynamite plunger in a ceremony with California Gov. Pat Brown. …
“Now, half a century later, the federal government is proposing to expand the reservoir, a key source of water for Central Valley farmers and Silicon Valley — albeit with less fanfare. …
“Federal and state officials are also studying increasing the height of Shasta Dam in Shasta County and New Exchequer Dam on Lake McClure near Mariposa.”