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Water storage successes, failures, and challenges from Proposition 1

Posted on September 9, 2018 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

by Jay Lund The California Water Commission recently allocated $2.7 billion from Proposition 1 bonds for eight water storage projects.  Proposition 1 was passed in 2014 to fund a range of projects, including “public purposes” of water storage projects, such … Continue reading →

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Shaping water storage in California

Posted on November 20, 2014 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Jay Lund, Maurice Hall and Anthony Saracino With the continuation of California’s historic drought and the recent passage of Proposition 1, the potential value of additional water storage in the state is an area of vigorous discussion. In a new study released … Continue reading →

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Should California expand reservoir capacity by removing sediment?

Posted on June 9, 2014 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Jay Lund Removing sediment from reservoirs is often suggested as a potentially better way to expand storage capacity than raising dam heights or building new reservoirs. This is a natural notion to explore given the cost and likely environmental … Continue reading →

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Water Storage in California

Posted on September 13, 2011 by cathrynlawrence

Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “With a larger reservoir, there is some increasing gain with further size, but in a diminishing ratio.” – Alan Hazen (1914) Water storage capacity … Continue reading →

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