PEER SWAN TALKS: SOLUTIONS FOR THE CALIFORNIA WATER SYSTEM
EXPLORING IDEAS AND ENCOURAGING CREATIVE DISCUSSION
A Modified and Phased Bay Delta West Conveyance Option
with Tunnel Components Supporting Dual Conveyance.
INTRODUCTION:
1. This option is phased and can be put into place as experience and trust is formed through cooperative implementation of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan elements.
2. It begins with gravity flow and is augmented with pumps and a second intake in the lower Sacramento River system to allow capture of flows during periods of high river flows. The system would be designed to operate approximately 260 days per year and be shutdown for 100 days per year during fish migrations.
3. It provides water supplies to many areas in and around the Delta, thus broadening the area of potential support for the project.
4. The main intake from the Sacramento River is moved north to an area west of the Sacramento International Airport to access higher quality water to improve water quality to all the areas linked into the project.
5. The concept also links storage into the system via an enlarged Los Vaqueros Reservoir for capture of supplies during high periods of flow.
6. Creates a “protected” utilities corridor for transportation, water, gas, power, oil, etc. across the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.
7. Creates a “multiple tiered” financing system that funding agencies with additional reliability out of the system and non-funding agencies the ability to purchase an option to buy into subsequent phases or not. Those that do not buy in or exercise a later option would receive the amount of water they would have received absent the project. The non-funding agencies would benefit from the overall higher reliability of the project. click here to read about it
2. It begins with gravity flow and is augmented with pumps and a second intake in the lower Sacramento River system to allow capture of flows during periods of high river flows. The system would be designed to operate approximately 260 days per year and be shutdown for 100 days per year during fish migrations.
3. It provides water supplies to many areas in and around the Delta, thus broadening the area of potential support for the project.
4. The main intake from the Sacramento River is moved north to an area west of the Sacramento International Airport to access higher quality water to improve water quality to all the areas linked into the project.
5. The concept also links storage into the system via an enlarged Los Vaqueros Reservoir for capture of supplies during high periods of flow.
6. Creates a “protected” utilities corridor for transportation, water, gas, power, oil, etc. across the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers.
7. Creates a “multiple tiered” financing system that funding agencies with additional reliability out of the system and non-funding agencies the ability to purchase an option to buy into subsequent phases or not. Those that do not buy in or exercise a later option would receive the amount of water they would have received absent the project. The non-funding agencies would benefit from the overall higher reliability of the project. click here to read about it