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David Orth, general manager of the Kings River Conservation District and a member of the California Water Commission, also said such alliances are likely needed to show the required “public benefit” of any storage project, along with the ecological benefits to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Among proposed storage projects are construction of a dam at Temperance Flat upstream from Millerton Lake and Sites Reservoir located north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Green said backers of a Temperance Flat project should seek to show that “having that bucket and connecting it and getting water into the ground” is important.
