SCH Number 2005031068

Project Info

Title

Madera Irrigation District Water Supply Enhancement Project

Description

The project involves the development, construction, and operation of water conveyance, recharge, and recovery facilities to improve, rehabilitate, and expand MID's existing water delivery system to the Madera Ranch property in Madera County, California. The project will bank MID's long-term allotted surface water supply form the San Joaquin River, Fresno River, and other non-Central Valley Project waters for a total maximum of no more than 55,000 acre feet (af) being delivered to and subsequently stored beneath the Madera Ranch site annually using a combination of natural swales and constructed basins for recharge, and then extracting stored waters when needed for delivery to MID's customers. At full capacity, the aquifer under the Madera Ranch will store a total of 250,000 af of water, of which 10 percent will be left in the aquifer to help reduce local overdraft problems.

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