LOIS HENRY: How forfeited water would be used
| Thursday, May 06 2010 02:17 PM
The entities seeking forfeited Kern River water offered different requests and purposes in their applications to the State Water Resources Control Board.
Buena Vista
Estimate: 700,000 acre feet per year
Use: Irrigation, 180,000 acre feet per year; storage 520,000 acre feet per year
Kern Water Bank Authority
Estimate: 500,000 acre feet per year
Use: Municipal, 5,000 acre feet per year; industrial, 5,000 acre feet per year; irrigation, 490,000 acre feet per year
Kern County Water Agency
Estimate: 2.279 million acre feet per year
Use: Municipal, 74,000 acre feet; irrigation, 866,000 acre feet; storage for municipal and ag uses, 1.339 million acre feet
North Kern Water Storage District
Estimate: 500,000 acre feet per year
Use: Irrigation (no amount given); groundwater recharge (no amount given); municipal and industrial and other 1,850 cubic feet per second
City of Bakersfield
Estimate: 90,000 acre feet per year
Use: Municipal, recreation, fish and wildlife enhancement and water quality all achieved by running the water down the river.
Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District
The district has applied for the flood waters that go past all earlier users and make it to the Intertie. The district has not applied for the forfeited water.
Estimate: 67,750
Use: Domestic (Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange county)
