With only months to complete his father's water legacy Gov Brown might succeed

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With only months to complete his father's water legacy Gov Brown might succeed

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Jerry Brown has months to complete his father’s legacy on water. He just might succeed.

Portions of the two largest north-south water delivery systems in California run side-by-side near Patterson, Stanislaus County. In the foreground is the Edmund G. Brown California Aquaduct (State Water Project) and behind it is the Delta-Mendota Canal, part of the (Federal) Central Valley Project. The power -- and availibility-- of water turns an arid, desert-like landscape into lush, growing farmlands in California’s great central valley... “food grows where water flows”. Photo taken June 13, 2002. Dick Schmidt / The Sacramento Bee (with story by Dale Kasler) Dick Schmidt Sacramento Bee Staff Photo


Nearly six decades ago, shortly after becoming governor, Pat Brown persuaded the Legislature and voters to approve one of the nation’s largest public works projects, the State Water Plan.

New reservoirs in Northern California, including the nation’s highest dam at Oroville on the Feather River, would capture runoff from snowfall in the Sierra, and a massive aqueduct would carry water southward to San Joaquin Valley farms and fast-growing Southern California cities.

As a gesture to what was then a nascent environmental movement, the Water Plan included a “peripheral canal” to carry water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and thus, it was said, protect its fish and other wildlife.

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