[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 112 (Friday, August 1, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1589-E1590]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    IMPROVING VALLEJO'S WATER SUPPLY

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                           HON. GEORGE MILLER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 31, 1997

  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, water supplies for California 
cities are extremely limited. Whenever possible, cities attempt to use 
their water storage and conveyance systems in the most efficient ways 
they can.
  The city of Vallejo has tried to use its water supply facilities more 
efficiently, but has been frustrated by a limitation in Federal law 
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prohibits the city from sharing space in an existing Federal water 
delivery canal.
  The city of Vallejo simply desires to wheel some of its drinking 
water through part of the canal serving California's Solano Project, a 
water project built by the Bureau of Reclamation in the 1950's. Vallejo 
is prepared to pay any appropriate charges for the use of this 
facility.
  Allowing Vallejo to use the Solano Project should be a simple matter, 
but it is not. Legislation is required to allow the city to use the 
Federal water project for carriage of municipal and industrial water.
  Congress in recent years has expanded the scope of the Warren Act to 
apply to other communities in California and Utah where there existed a 
need for more water management flexibility. The legislation I am 
introducing today will simply extend similar flexibility to the Solano 
Project and to the city of Vallejo.

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