Water Transfer Vote Delayed Until December
From Staff and Wire Reports
The Imperial Irrigation District won’t vote until December on a landmark agreement that expands agriculture-to-urban water transfers and provides a framework for ending decades of dispute over the Colorado River.
The plan, tentatively agreed to by four agencies last month, must be presented to the federal government by Dec. 31, or California could face a drastic, immediate cut to its river supply by the Interior Department.
The plan requires farmers in the Imperial Valley to temporarily idle some farmland.
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