Kern Delta Water District Water Banking and In-Lieu Water Supply Project (SWPAO #03019)

Kern Delta Water District Water Banking and In-Lieu Water Supply Project (SWPAO #03019)

Instead of constructing a 7-mile pipeline-canal, Kern Delta proposes to utilize certain additional capacity in the Cross Valley Canal for west-to-east conveyance of supplies from the California Aqueduct and, in connection therewith, to construct a 2150-foot long Cross River Pipeline from the CVC to the Buena Vista Canal along an alignment parallel to the Calloway Drive/Old River Road bridge crossing. The proposed pipeline would cross a section of the Kern River 275 feet in width, about 900 feet of which is adjacent to the Kern River floodplain within the flood control levees of the Kern River. The Cross River Pipeline project will incorporate the same USFWS and CDFG approved measures to avoid and minimize potential effects on animal movement along the riverbed and floodplain that were incorporated in the FEIR project. As provided in the FEIR, best management practices approved by CDFG will also be incorporated into the project to avoid and minimize effects related to fuel, oil, and other material spills from construction equipment.

Bakersfield

Kern