About the Los Vaqueros Reservoir Expansion Project
The project primary and secondary objectives focus on using an expanded Los Vaqueros Project to accomplish the following:
Primary Objectives:
- Develop water supplies for environmental water management that supports fish protection, habitat management, and other environmental water needs.
- Increase water supply reliability for water providers within the San Francisco Bay Area, to help meet municipal and industrial water demands during drought periods and emergencies or to address shortages due to regulatory and environmental restrictions.
Secondary Objective:
- Improve the quality of water deliveries to municipal and industrial customers in the San Francisco Bay Area, without impairing the project’s ability to meet the environmental and water supply reliability objectives stated above.
Managing Agencies
- Reclamation
and the California Department of Water Resources are jointly funding
the planning phase of the project.
- Reclamation and Contra Costa Water District, the local owner of the reservoir, are jointly preparing the Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report.
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Links include:
- Contra Costa Water District Los Vaqueros website
- Water Conservation
Reclamation Project Manager
Sharon McHale
916/978-5086
For more information about this project, go to http://www.lvstudies.com
Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region Public Affairs Office
2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento CA 95825-1898
Main (916) 978-5100 | FAX (916) 978-5114 | TDD (916) 978-5608
Reclamation Officials' Telephone Numbers
October 1, 2008
