Water conservation efforts pay off in Northern California
August 18, 2008 by Editor
Filed under The Southwest
SANTA ROSA- For the second consecutive year, water conservation efforts are paying off in the North Bay area. The Sonoma County Water Agency is meeting its goal of reducing the amount of water it takes out of the Russian River by 15 percent, allowing water to be stockpiled in Lake Mendocino for release during the fall salmon run.
Officials credit conservation efforts by the agency’s major customers — the cities and water districts from Windsor to San Rafael — and now project there will be enough water left in the reservoir for October releases.
“They said they were doing a similar effort as last year, they would reduce the water by 15 percent from 2004, and that was the basis of what happened last year,” said Don Seymour, principal engineer for the Water Agency.
The Water Agency has been diverting less than 70 million gallons per day from the Russian River at its intake pumps at Wohler and Mirabel, near Forestville, Seymour said. Without the conservation measures, the average in past years had been about 80 million gallons per day, Seymour said.
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Source: Press Democrat
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