Water bill includes California projects
The bill authorizes $1.3 billion for 54 projects in the state

November 3, 2007

California funding
The water bill authorizes $1.3 billion for 54 projects in California. Here are the 10 largest:

$444 million: To add safety mechanisms and control components on the Folsom Dam to control flooding on the Sacramento and American rivers.

$171.1 million: To create tidal and seasonal wetlands at Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato with discarded materials from San Francisco Bay navigational projects.

$106 million: To maintain and restore more than 1,100 miles of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

$89.7 million: To build recreational trails and remove the Matilija Dam to promote the spawning of the endangered southern steelhead trout on the Ventura River.

$87.5 million: To build a pipeline at the Napa River Salt Marsh to dilute ponds of bittern, a toxic byproduct of commercial salt ponds, and provide wetland habitat for endangered species, migratory waterfowl, shorebirds and aquatic species.

$65 million: To reduce flood damage on the Santa Ana River and relocate a pipeline designed to convey 30 million gallons a day of treated wastewater to the ocean for disposal.

$41.7 million: To build 41 miles of levees in the Yuba River Basin.

$40 million: To set up an Army Corps of Engineers program to develop projects statewide to prevent storm water and farm runoff from polluting water sources.

$40 million: To reduce flood damage on Llagas Creek in the Santa Clara Valley.

$40 million: To study restoring and protecting the San Pablo Bay watershed north of San Francisco and to study restoring Suisun Marsh.

Sources: Water Resources Development Act of 2007 and water agencies

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