Napa to earn $1 million by selling off surplus state water reserves [View all]
A bounty of state-supplied water reserved for Napa will provide the city with $1.06 million to keep its water treatment and pipes in shape.
Six thousand acre-feet of Napa’s allotment with the State Water Project – which channels Sierra Nevada snowmelt to cities across California – will be transferred to the Kern County Water Agency in the southern Central Valley, in a deal the City Council approved Tuesday. Kern County also agreed to return a third of that share to Napa within 10 years.
The sale will draw on the 10,950 acre-feet of state-controlled water granted to Napa in the 2018-19 fiscal year, on top of another 9,310 acre-feet of unused supplies from past years.
One acre-foot equals about 326,000 gallons.
City officials called the sale a way to fund upkeep of its water treatment and delivery network with supplies fattened in the last two years by conservation in the face of a statewide drought – and the winter rains of 2017 that broke the drought. Napa will not divert any water from Lake Hennessey or Milliken Reservoir, its two sources within the county.
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