You thought the CVP was large
No Bureau requirements
Half a million newcomers per year
West side of San Joaquin Valley needs water
Some Farms
224,000 Kern Land
90,000 Standard Oil
25,000 Buena Vista
25,000 Belridge Oil
23,000 Tidewater Oil
17,000 General
Petroleum
15,000 Shell Oil
14,000 Occidental
12,000 Richfield Oil
11,000 Southern Pacific
15,000 Southern Pacific
Land
10,000 Allison Honer Co
39,000 Times Mirror
Ground water
depletion
Pumping costs
Land subsidence
Runoff pollution
of aquifers
Salinization
“Waste” = 40%
Population
Growth
Last “Wild” river
Flood control
750 mile aqueduct!
Water to Bay area
Water to San Joaquin Valley
Water to Southern CA
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Detailed studies 1951
Department of Water Resources
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Water Resources Bonds
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100,000 square mile flood
$1.5 billion
Plus oilfield royalties
Total $2.5 billion
San Joaquin Valley in favor
160 acre limit – lost in supreme court
North did not want to ship south
North, floods, development and saltwater
not enough
County of Origin - South
What if we build it and it does not come?
Not as long as bonds are outstanding
North basically votes no
South approves
MWD carried the day
All power plus twice the amount needed for
pumps
Net electricity deficit
No net revenue
1983, Revenues become positive
Bakersfield, city dwellers, pay for system
Surcharge for large farms – reduced to zero by
Reagan
Capacity or volume?
Middle ground subsidizes farms
Farms only pay transportation and not capital
costs for surplus: $13 vs $43
new farmland
Large, subsidized, farms could underprice small
farms
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Today, the Project includes 34 storage facilities,
reservoirs and lakes; 20 pumping plants; 4
pumping-generating plants; 5 hydroelectric
power plants; and about 701 miles of open
canals and pipelines.
The Project provides supplemental water to
approximately 25 million Californians and
about 750,000 acres of irrigated farmland.
As a water distribution system, the Delta not only
serves the State and federal projects but also
many agricultural and municipal water diverters
surrounding and within the Delta itself. Delta
water from the State Water Project serves both
urban and agricultural areas in the Bay area, the
Silicon Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, the Central
Coast, and Southern California.