More canal lining projects proposed
From the NC Times, via today's BC Water News:
Saying the water it would bring to San Diego County over the next century was too cheap to pass up, regional water leaders voted Thursday to spend an additional $38.3 million on a long-discussed project to line a canal in Imperial Valley.
Four North County water agencies opposed the expenditure, saying it wasn't quite as cheap as it looked.
San Diego County Water Authority board members also voted to spend $4 million more on a similar lining project in Coachella Valley.
The two actions mean the Water Authority, and county water ratepayers, will spend at least $134.3 million ---- on top of the $219.3 million the state is giving the Water Authority for the projects ---- to complete the projects for a total of $353.6 million.
Officials say the water that the canal-lining projects will bring to county residents will be the cheapest, most reliable portion of the county's water supply for most of the next 110 years.
"It is dirt-cheap water," Halla Razak, the Water Authority's Colorado River program manager, said during a break in Thursday's meeting. "I mean, trying to find new sources of water right now is like ---- not possible."
posted by Michael Durand at 8:04 AM
3 Comments:
Is it really in the best interest of the people of california to bring in additional water for 1.6 million more peaple in San Diego County? The water managers from SDCWA and other agencies are tools in the hands of developers.
The dogma of perpetual growth is certainly something that will (I hope) be deconstructed in this century. For now, though, as long as people want to keep developing and buying new homes, people in the Southwest will find water somewhere... =/
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