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December 2011 update on some of the water intake facilities already
built and other CALFED projects in progress: click on each graphic
or map section to view in full size and you can also see the links to
the various projects. One project just north of the I-street
bridge can be seen on some maps, but doesn't show on other maps.
It's called a "water treatment Inlet" but it appears to match a design
proposed in the older CALFED documents. More info will be posted
as it comes available.
calfedupdate12-2011.pdf (printable, but large file) |
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The materials for the public scoping meetings did not make it very
clear, but it appears this new
intake will be or is located underneith the Hwy 5 bridge across the
Sacramento River between
Woodland and the Sacramento Airport.
Already built, tested and operational according to some state
officials...not operating yet according to
others. Ask where the water goes from the releases from the
pressure release valves in the transport
pipes. Ask what happens to the sediment collected from the water.
The project pictured below is at the end of Empire Tract, which you
reach by going west on Eight Mile Road...like going to where Herman's
and Helen's houseboat rentals used to be, and then turn left (towards
the San Joaquin River) and keep driving along the levee road and you'll
come to the fencing...general public not allowed in this construction
area. Stockton already gets its water from diversion pipes before
the water reaches the Delta so no doubt this is one of those
"conjunctive use" projects where the end result will be more water for
EBMUD, Stockton, San Joaquin County, and less water for the North Delta
tributaries like Steamboat Slough where according to DWR computer
modeling the water flow will be reduced by 50% on average, seasonally.
As of December 2011 this project is still under construction.
Below is a project already completed according to the CCWD website that
no longer works as of 12/2011.
The Los Vaqueros Reservoir expansion was part of the "surface storage"
studies of the CALFED
record of decision in 2000. Its filling up in Dec 2011 to provide
more water for the bay area.
Viewed from an airplane, and showing on some mapping websites, but the
data is not known,
except that it looks like one of the intake designs promoted by CALFED
2000 ROD studies.
the builder gives more details
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Above and below: December 2011 photos along the Garden Highway
near Verona.
A new canal has been built to transport water from the Sacramento River
to the various
newer housing projects and the farming lands.
Below: the plans for changes to Dead Horse Island, which look much
like the plans
for the "through Delta" conveyance plan of CALFED ROD and of the "Franks
Tract, et al"
value planning to revise the operations of the Delta Cross Channel to
increase
diversion of the Sacramento River water.
Super levee just off Hwy 12 to protect the highway just in case Staten
Island is used
for in-delta water storage...as planned. Click on the photo to see
a larger version...
those two animals are river otter running towards a small creek next to
Hwy 12.
I guess the enlarged levee displaced their natural home so now they hang
out next
to the huge volume of traffic and trucks of Hwy 12 on Boudin Island!!!
I'm told the NBA intake is under construction now but I have not seen
it...have you?
below is a photo of a "super levee" north of Sacramento along the Garden
Highway,
west of the Sacramento Airport
leads to...
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"Weap" is the name of a planning process from EBMUD...might want to
look at this as it seems to just lately shown online.
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 section
of 1886 "William Hall" map which shows both Steamboat Slough and "Old
River Sacramento" on the map, just after hydraulic mining was
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Section of 1945 state plan for
flood control also recognizes the location of Steamboat Slough, but
its widened. Note that Steamboat Slough was the original route
for transportation/navigation to the city of Sacramento in the gold rush
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