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NRDC Portfolio-Based BDCP Conceptual Alternative – Summary

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) | January 15th, 2013


The eight components described below represent a conceptual alternative, not a proposed BDCP project. The analysis of this alternative is intended to assist BDCP in developing the most cost-effective and environmentally beneficial final BDCP project that can be implemented and produce benefits rapidly. Variations on the approaches below should be analyzed as well, including a full range of conveyance capacities.

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Keywords

Delta conveyance, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta