Cerritos group tours state water project

Participating in the two-day State Water Project Tour from Cerritos were Chuck Carson, Don Brown, Jim and Rosalie Wisenburger, Councilmember Carol Chen, Charles Ding, Chuong VO, George and Amy Dominquez, and ABC School Board Member Sophia Tse. At the crack of dawn on Friday morning, Feb. 25, Central Basin Municipal Water District Director Phil Hawkins welcomed a group of citizens from Cerritos at the District Office before departure for a two-day State Water Project Inspection Tour starting in Sacramento.
The tour provided community leaders with a working knowledge of the water supply challenges facing. Southern California.
The California State Water Project is a water storage and delivery system of reservoirs, aqueducts, power plants and pumping plants. Its main purpose is to store water and distribute it to 29 urban and agricultural water suppliers in Northern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, the Central Coast, and Southern California. Of Seventy percent of the contracted water supply goes to urban users and 30 percent goes to agricultural users. The Project provides supplemental water to approximately 25 million Californians and about 750,000 acres of irrigated farmland.
The two-day tour included visiting the Oroville Feather River Fish Hatchery just below Oroville Dam, Metropolitan Water District, a Legislative Update traveling through the San Joaquin Delta and passing Freeport, Clarksburg to Hood, Delta Cross Channel, Twitchell Island at Walnut Grove, Ryde and Isleton.The inspection trip revealed and discussed the many problems and setback to the Delta levee project and levee restoration. The group also viewed the Skinner Fish Salvage Facilities and the Banks Intake Pumping Plant.
The California State Water Project is a water storage and delivery system of reservoirs, aqueducts, power plants and pumping plants. Its main purpose is to store water and distribute it to 29 urban and agricultural water suppliers in Northern California, the San Francisco Bay Area, the San Joaquin Valley, the Central Coast, and Southern California. Of the contracted water supply, 70 percent goes to urban users and 30 percent goes to agricultural users.
The Project makes deliveries to two-thirds of California's population. It is maintained and operated by the California Department of Water Resources.
The Project is also operated to improve water quality in the Delta, control Feather River floodwaters, provide recreation, and enhance fish and wildlife.
Size
Today, the SWP Project includes 34 storage facilities, reservoirs and lakes; 20 pumping plants; four pumping-generating plants; five hydroelectric power plants; and about 701 miles of open canals and pipelines.