Wet winter, full reservoirs lead to increased water deliveries from state, federal governments
Water agencies up and down California will be getting larger allocations from the state and federal delivery systems this year, water managers announced this week. On Tuesday, the California Department of Water Resources announced it would be increasing deliveries to 50 percent of requested supplies from the State Water Project — that’s up from 40 percent in March. Also, officials with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced that deliveries to irrigation systems and other water contractors south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta are being increased from 40 percent of requested supplies to 50 percent. Meanwhile, farms north of the Delta, and within the Delta itself, will receive 100 percent of their requested supplies from the federal Central Valley Project.
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