San Jose Mayor disagrees with Santa Clara Valley Water District leaders on Pacheco Reservoir expansion
San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo is pushing back against Santa Clara Valley Water District’s Pacheco Reservoir Expansion project, but water district representatives say his concerns are misleading. On Friday, Liccardo held a news conference where he emphasized that the $2.5 billion project to boost Pacheco Reservoir’s operational capacity from 5,500 acre-feet to up to 140,000 acre-feet is not a smart investment. ”The expansion project) would add no long term drought supply to our community, it would provide no new water supply to our community, rather would merely be a receptacle for water,” Liccardo said.