Monday December 9, 2024
San Joaquin Valley Sun —
Over the past three and a half years, President Biden’s Investing in America agenda has directed historic investments to California to address the climate crisis, build drought resilience, and strengthen the Golden State’s aging infrastructure. The resilience of the Central Valley Project, with its importance to California’s agricultural industry and drinking water deliveries to major urban centers in the Greater Sacramento and San Francisco Bay areas, has been a central focus of our mission since day one.
The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation manages the Central Valley Project – a 400-mile, multi-purpose network of dams, reservoirs, canals and hydroelectric powerplants – while the California Department of Water Resources manages the State Water Project. Collectively, the operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project serves the water needs of 30 million people while providing flood control and navigation, supporting 4 million acres of agriculture, maintaining 19 national wildlife refuges throughout the Pacific Flyway, and protecting numerous iconic and endemic species such as Chinook salmon, coho salmon, steelhead, sturgeon and smelt.