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New 1,000-Page Department of Water Resources Report: California Water Supply EVEN MORE VULNERABLE to Quakes, Flood Than Originally Thought — PDF (Kelly Zito, SanFranciscoChronicle)

(March 21, 2009, Kelly Zito, The San Francisco Chronicle)
Earthquakes and severe storms could destroy hundreds of miles of mostly earthen levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in coming decades, according to a state report that provides the most detail yet on the vulnerabilities of the hub of California’s water system.
Among the findings in the [...]

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Delta Blues in California: Alarmism, Inflation and Damage Control (TheReporter)

(Jan. 20, 2009, The Vacaville Reporter)
Pushing hard to build a new canal around the delta, the Schwarzenegger administration rarely misses an opportunity to point out how rickety California’s water system has become.And in their zeal to get the expensive and controversial aqueduct built, they occasionally exaggerate.
For example, when federal regulators imposed new rules last month [...]

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