Michael Jackson, P.E.

Area Manager South-Central California Area Office

Mid-Pacific Region

• June 17, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Reclamation Act: – Providing water for small-scale family

farms in the West.

• August 26, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the River and Harbor Act: – Authorized the Central Valley Project.

Bureau of Reclamation History

South of Delta CVP Facilities Delta Division Delta Cross Channel Tracy Fish Collecting Facility Jones (Tracy) Pumping Plant Delta Mendota Canal Contra Loma and Martinez Dams Contra Costa Canal and PP’s DMC-Cal Aqueduct Intertie San Luis Unit O’Neill Pumping/Generating Plant Sisk (San Luis) Dam Gianelli PGP O’Neill Dam Los Banos & Little Panoche Dams San Luis Canal Dos Amigos PP San Felipe Division San Justo Dam Pacheco & Coyote PP’s Pacheco/Santa Clara/Hollister Conduits

Friant Division CVP Facilities

Friant Division Friant Dam Madera Canal Friant-Kern Canal

There are 47 South of Delta contractors on the west side that have contracts for Irrigation, M&I, and Refuge purposes:

1 Exchange Contract: 840,000 acre-feet 9 Water Rights: 35,023 acre-feet 37 Other: 2,170,438 acre-feet

There are 30 Friant Division contractors on the east side that have contracts for Irrigation, M&I, or Other purposes:

Class 1 Water 800,000 acre-feet Class 2 Water 1,400,000 acre-feet

There are 7 Cross Valley contractors that have contracts for Irrigation or M&I purposes:

128,300 acre-feet

SCCAO CVP Contractors

Authorities to Contract for Transfers and Exchanges of CVP and Non-CVP Water

Warren Act of 1911 Provides for the storage and conveyance of non-project water for irrigation

purposes

Reclamation Project Act of 1939 Section 14 of the Act provides for exchanges with Reclamation

Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 Section 305 provides for the storage and conveyance of non-project water

for M&I purposes

Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) of 1992 Section 3405 provides for transfers

Authorities to Contract for Transfers and Exchanges of CVP and Non-CVP Water

Continued… CVPIA (continued) Section 3408(c) provides for exchanges and the opportunity for CVP

contractors to bank CVP water

Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 Title X provides for the implementation of the San Joaquin River Restoration

Settlement

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 Section 206 provides opportunity for Reclamation to participate in banking of

CVP water in non-Federal groundwater banks Section 207 provides that transfers of CVP water between CVP contractors

meet conditions of CVPIA Section 3405(a)(1)

SCCAO Facilitated Project Water Actions

Contracts Executed Total Acre-Feet 2010 Contract Year: 158 666,866 AF 2011 Contract Year: 129 421,635 AF 2012 Contract Year: 129+ 181,912 AF+

(2012 Contract Year includes March through July 31 deliveries)

SCCAO Facilitated Non-Project Water Actions

(2012 Contract Year includes March through July 31 deliveries)

Contracts Executed Total Acre-Feet 2010 Contract Year: 26 86,175 AF 2011 Contract Year: 11 43,987 AF 2012 Contract Year: 18+ 36,428 AF+

CVP Banking

Banking Entities Meyers Bank Semitropic WSD North-Kern WSD Rosedale-Rio Bravo WSD Madera Ranch

Total Quantities Banked 2010 Contract Year 87,826 acre-feet 2011 Contract Year 68,408 acre-feet 2012 Contract Year 21,648 acre-feet

San Joaquin River Restoration Program Recirculated Water

2010 Contract Year ~50,000 acre-feet 2011 Contract Year ~30,000 acre-feet 2012 Contract Year ~57,000 acre-feet

(2012 Contract Year includes March through July 31 deliveries)

Westlands - San Luis - Metropolitan Exchange & Transfer Project - 2011

March 1, 2010 through February 28, 2011 Westlands sent to MET 110,000 acre-feet San Luis sent to MET 40,000 acre-feet March 1, 2011 through July 31, 2012 MET returned to Westlands 53,795 acre-feet MET returned to San Luis 20,000 acre-feet

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