This is water which should be flowing into the Delta and not through a huge pipe to the East Bay!
"A municipal utility district's plan to expand Pardee Reservoir has local conservationists and some politicians claiming the water-generating scheme would come with significant environmental costs.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District released a draft version of a water supply plan in February. The draft program environmental impact report, or PEIR, is meant to anticipate water needs 30 years from now. A public comment period on the proposal began with its Feb. 19 release and will last 45 days, until April 6.
Over the next two weeks, four meetings will be held to obtain comments from the public, including one in Sutter Creek on Monday.
In the district's notice of the PEIR's availability, it said the proposal was intended to identify solutions to meet water needs during dry periods through the year 2040. There is sufficient water in the Mokelumne River basin during normal and above normal precipitation years, the district said on its Web site, but not during drier years, "even after accounting for demand reductions from conservation and recycling programs."
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"A municipal utility district's plan to expand Pardee Reservoir has local conservationists and some politicians claiming the water-generating scheme would come with significant environmental costs.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District released a draft version of a water supply plan in February. The draft program environmental impact report, or PEIR, is meant to anticipate water needs 30 years from now. A public comment period on the proposal began with its Feb. 19 release and will last 45 days, until April 6.
Over the next two weeks, four meetings will be held to obtain comments from the public, including one in Sutter Creek on Monday.
In the district's notice of the PEIR's availability, it said the proposal was intended to identify solutions to meet water needs during dry periods through the year 2040. There is sufficient water in the Mokelumne River basin during normal and above normal precipitation years, the district said on its Web site, but not during drier years, "even after accounting for demand reductions from conservation and recycling programs."
continued here: http://www.ledger-dispatch.com/news/newsview.asp?c=254824