Peripheral Canal Design and Implementation Options

13/11/2008 33 min

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Episode Synopsis

Lund discusses recent policy and technical discussions that have begun to revisit the idea of building a peripheral canal to divert water from the Sacramento River upstream of the Delta and deliver it to the export pumps. A canal or other form of upstream diversion of water exports involves a wide range of important decisions including: infrastructure, operations, environmental, governance, finance, etc.