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State Senate Gives Final Approval to Salmon Restoration Bill
Submitted by Lloyd_Carter on Wed, 04/02/2008 - 22:28.State Senate Gives Final Approval to Salmon Restoration Bill
by Dan Bacher
The State Senate gave final approval today (April 1) to Senate Bill 562, legislation by North Coast Senator Patricia Wiggins (D - Santa Rosa) to designate $5.3 million in '"urgent funding" for coastal salmon and steelhead fisheries restoration projects.
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Submitted by Lloyd_Carter on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 21:50.Contra Costa Times – December 8, 2007
By Mike Taugher, staff writer
Customers of one of the state's largest water delivery systems secretly commissioned a study last year to estimate how much it would cost to build a highly controversial peripheral canal to deliver water around the Delta.
The $50,000 study, completed in August 2006, shows that contractors of the State Water Project were actively considering a new canal similar to the aqueduct voters killed in 1982.
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