Biggs-West Gridley Water District 2023 Water Transfer Program

Biggs-West Gridley Water District 2023 Water Transfer Program

The Biggs-West Gridley Water District (BWGWD) proposes to sell during the 2023 irrigation season up to 18,780 acre-feet (af) of water to participating member districts of the State Water Contractors, Incorporated or other South of Delta purchasers, including one or more Central Valley Project contractors (collectively, “Buyers”). Buyers and others are seeking up to approximately 300,000 af of transfer water from various willing sellers in the Sacramento Valley during the 2023 irrigation season. Purchasing this water would lessen potential water supply shortages to these Buyers that may occur as a result of dry hydrologic conditions and regulatory restrictions on pumping in the Delta. As a willing seller, the BWGWD would make up to 18,780 af of water available to Buyers by idling cropland (i.e., non-irrigation of farmland by voluntary participants). Water made available by crop idling within the boundaries of the BWGWD would then be retained and stored by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) for delivery to Buyers. The BWGWD’s proposed transfer will comply with the most current Draft Technical Information for Preparing Water Transfer Proposals prepared by the DWR and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), dated December 2019 (Draft Technical Information), as applicable to land idling transfers.

Gridley

Butte

Northern California

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Other (Temporary Water Transfer)

Temporary Water Transfer

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