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California Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) introduced a bill, which would use part of the $7.12 billion Water Bond money from Proposition 1, to expedite a couple of water storage projects.
The bill would set aside $2.7 billion to build the Sites Reservoir in the Sacramento Valley and the Temperance Flat near the San Joaquin River.
“As California continues to combat historic drought conditions and as El Niño storms take their toll, we should be doing everything we can to update our water storage infrastructure,” Assembly member Salas said in a release. “Had these investments been made decades ago we would be prepared to capture the rainfall from recent El Niño storms. AB 1649 will make sure that California voters receive what they approved by streamlining projects that will enable us to capture more water in years of high rainfall and prevent large losses of rain water in the future.”
Salas has bipartisan support in the state senate. State Senator Andy Vidak (R-Handford) co-sponsored the bill.
