Semitropic’s Plans
for the Near Future
Semitropic
Water Storage District has permitted and is ready for construction of a
second phase of the groundwater banking program.
This
new unit, called the Stored Water Recovery Unit, will increase storage
by 650,000 acre-feet to a maximum of 1.65 million acre-feet and
increase recovery capacity by 200,000 acre-feet/year for a total
guaranteed or pumpback capacity of 290,000 acre-feet/year. This means
that the Semitropic Water Storage Bank, including its entitlement
exchange capability of up to 133,000 acre-feet/year, will be able to
deliver up to 423,000 acre-feet per year of dry year yield to the
California Aqueduct. In a 50 percent year, the water bank’s capacity is
equivalent to about 18 percent of the entire State Water Project yield.
Semitropic
Water Storage Bank is currently looking for additional banking partners
to share the benefits of the Stored Water Recovery Unit. Partners can
include:
- existing banking
partners
- public agencies
- metropolitan
sub-agencies
- CALFED Environmental
Water Account users
- private investors
- developers requiring
assured water supply
- power companies
requiring reliable generation cooling water
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