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|title        = Central Valley Project
|image        = [[File:Central valley project-01.png|250px|alt=]]
|image2       = [[File:CVPSouthernCanalsUSBR.jpg|255px|alt=]]
|caption      = Map showing CVP facilities in the state of California.
|caption2 = Map of CVP canal system in the San Joaquin Valley. CVP aqueducts are in blue while SWP aqueducts are in red.
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|header1 = General statistics
|label2 = Begun
|data2 = 1933
|label3  = Storage dams
|data3   = [[Auburn Dam|Auburn]] (canceled)<br>Contra Loma<br>[[Folsom Dam|Folsom]]<br>[[Friant Dam|Friant]]<br>Funks<br>[[New Melones Dam|New Melones]]<br>[[San Justo Dam|San Justo]]<br>[[San Luis Dam|San Luis]]<br>[[Shasta Dam|Shasta]]<br>[[Sly Park Dam|Sly Park]]<br>[[Trinity Dam|Trinity]]<br>[[Whiskeytown Dam|Whiskeytown]]
|label4=Additional dams
|data4=Camp Creek Diversion<br>County Line (unbuilt)<br>[[Keswick Dam|Keswick]]<br>[[Lewiston Dam (California)|Lewiston]]<br>Little Panoche<br>Los Baños<br>[[Nimbus Dam|Nimbus]]<br>[[Red Bluff Diversion Dam|Red Bluff]]<br>[[O'Neill Dam|O'Neill]]<br>[[Spring Creek Dam|Spring Creek]]<br>[[Sugar Pine Dam|Sugar Pine]]
|label5=Power plants
|data5=Friant (25 MW)<br>Folsom minha (199 MW)<br>Judge Francis Carr (154 MW)<br> Keswick (117 MW)<br>New Melones (300 MW)<br>Nimbus (7.7 MW)<br>Shasta (676 MW)<br>Spring Creek (180 MW)<br>Trinity (140 MW)<br>[[Gianelli Power Plant|William R. Gianelli]] (424 MW)
|label6 = Canals
|data6= {{convert|643.6|mi|abbr=on}}
|header7  = Operations
|label8 = Storage capacity
|data8   = {{convert|13410683|acre.ft|dam3}}
|label9 = Annual water yield
|data9 = {{convert|7000000|acre.ft|dam3}}
|label10 = Land irrigated
|data10 = {{convert|3000000|acre}}
|label11 = Total generation capacity
|data11 = 2,254 [[Megawatt|MW]]
|label12 = Total annual generation
|data12=5.18 [[Terawatt hour|TWh]] (2004)
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The '''Central Valley Project''' ('''CVP''') is a federal power and [[water management]] project in the [[U.S. state]] of [[California]] under the supervision of the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] (USBR). It was devised in 1933 in order to provide [[irrigation]] and municipal water to much of [[Central Valley (California)|California's Central Valley]]—by regulating and storing water in reservoirs in the northern half of the state (once considered water-rich but suffering water-scarce conditions more than half the year in most years), and transporting it to the water-poor [[San Joaquin Valley]] and its surroundings by means of a series of canals, aqueducts and pump plants, some shared with the [[California State Water Project]] (SWP). Many CVP water users are represented by the Central Valley Project Water Association.

In addition to water storage and regulation, the system has a [[hydroelectric power|hydroelectric]] capacity of over 2,000 [[megawatt]]s, and provides [[recreation]] and [[flood control]] with its twenty dams and reservoirs. It has allowed major cities to grow along Valley rivers which previously would flood each spring, and transformed the [[semi-arid]] [[desert]] environment of the San Joaquin Valley into productive farmland. Freshwater stored in [[Sacramento River]] reservoirs and released downriver during dry periods prevents salt water from intruding into the [[Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta]] during [[high tide]]. There are eight divisions of the project and ten corresponding units, many of which operate in conjunction, while others are independent of the rest of the network. California agriculture and related industries now directly account for 7% of the gross state product for which the CVP supplied water for about half.

Many CVP operations have had considerable environmental consequences, including a decline in the [[salmon]] population of four major California rivers in the northern state, and the reduction of [[riparian zone]]s and [[wetland]]s. Many historical sites and [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] tribal lands have been flooded by CVP reservoirs. In addition, runoff from intensive irrigation has polluted rivers and [[groundwater]]. The [[Central Valley Project Improvement Act]], passed in 1992, intends to alleviate some of the problems associated with the CVP with programs like the [[Refuge Water Supply Program]].

In recent years, a combination of [[drought]] and regulatory decisions passed based on the [[Endangered Species Act of 1973]] have forced Reclamation to turn off much of the water for the west side of the San Joaquin Valley in order to protect the fragile ecosystem in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and keep alive the dwindling fish populations of Northern and Central California rivers. In 2017 the Klamath and Trinity rivers witnessed the worst fall run Chinook salmon return in recorded history, leading to a disaster declaration in California and Oregon due to the loss of the commercial fisheries. The recreational fall Chinook salmon fishery in both the ocean and the Trinity and Klamath rivers was also closed in 2017. Only 1,123 adult winter Chinook salmon returned to the Sacramento Valley in 2017, according to a report sent to the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). This is the second lowest number of returning adult winter run salmon since modern counting techniques were implemented in 2003. By comparison, over 117,000 winter Chinooks returned to spawn in 1969.

== Overview ==

=== Operations ===
The CVP stores about {{convert|13|e6acre.ft|km3}} of water in 20 reservoirs in the foothills of the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]], the [[Klamath Mountains]] and the [[California Coast Ranges]], and passes about {{convert|7.4|e6acre.ft|km3}} of water annually through its canals. Of the water transported, about {{convert|5|e6acre.ft|km3}} goes to irrigate {{convert|3000000|acre}} of farmland, {{convert|600000|acre.ft|km3}} supplies municipal uses, and {{convert|800000|acre.ft|km3}} is released into rivers and wetlands in order to comply with state and federal ecological standards.<ref name="cvp">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central+Valley+Project |title=Central Valley Project |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |access-date=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615004945/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central%20Valley%20Project |archive-date=2011-06-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/cvp.cfm |title=California State Water Project and the Central Valley Project |publisher=California Department of Water Resources |work=California State Water Project |date=2008-04-29 |access-date=2010-01-18 |archive-date=January 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100110102602/http://www.water.ca.gov/swp/cvp.cfm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Two large reservoirs, [[Shasta Lake]] and [[Trinity Lake]], are formed by a pair of dams in the mountains north of the [[Sacramento Valley]]. Water from [[Shasta Lake]] flows into the [[Sacramento River]] which flows to the [[Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta]] and water from [[Trinity Lake]] flows into the [[Trinity River (California)|Trinity River]] which leads to the [[Pacific Ocean]]. Both lakes release water at controlled rates. There, before it can flow on to [[San Francisco Bay]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]], some of the water is intercepted by a diversion channel and transported to the [[Delta-Mendota Canal]], which conveys water southwards through the San Joaquin Valley, supplying water to [[San Luis Reservoir]] (a SWP-shared facility) and the [[San Joaquin River]] at [[Mendota Pool]] in the process, eventually reaching canals that irrigates farms in the valley. [[Friant Dam]] crosses the San Joaquin River upstream of Mendota Pool, diverting its water southwards into canals that travel into the [[Tulare Lake]] area of the San Joaquin Valley, as far south as the [[Kern River]]. Finally, [[New Melones Lake]], a separate facility, stores water flow of a San Joaquin River tributary for use during dry periods. Other smaller, independent facilities exist to provide water to local irrigation districts.<ref name="cvp"/><ref name="historyoverview"/>

=== Background ===
The Central Valley Project was the world's largest water and power project when undertaken during [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s [[New Deal]] [[Public Works Administration|public works]] agenda.  The Project was the culmination of eighty years of political fighting over the state's most important natural resource - [[water in California|Water]].  The [[Central Valley (California)|Central Valley of California]] lies to the west of the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada Mountains]] with its annual run-off draining into the Pacific Ocean through the [[Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta]]. It is a large receding [[Geology|geological]] [[floodplain]] moderated by its [[Mediterranean climate]] of dry summers and wet winters that includes regular major [[Droughts in California|drought cycles]]. At the time of its construction, the project was at the center of a political and cultural battle over the state's future.  It intersected with the state's ongoing war over land use, access to water rights, impacts on indigenous communities, large vs. small farmers, the state's irrigation districts and public vs. private power. Its proponents ignored environmental concerns over its impacts, other than the outcome not damage the major [[Project stakeholder|stakeholder]]s at that time.

The [[Central Valley (California)|Central Valley of California]] has gone through two distinct culturally driven [[land use]] eras. The first was the [[Native Americans in the United States|indigenous]] tribal period that lasted for thousands of years. Then came the arrival of Europeans, first by the Spanish [[Spanish colonization of the Americas|colonial model]] of [[Catholic]] [[Spanish missions in California|missions]] and [[Ranchos of California|ranchos]] (1772–1846) was then followed by the current United States era. Due to its [[Mediterranean climate]], the first [[Culture|cultural]] period was [[hunter-gatherer]] based. The Spanish missions' ranching and [[Tanning (leather)|tanning]] business was based on the forced labor of [[The Californias|Las Californias]] tribes. Spain's model of land use with the [[grazing]] of [[livestock]] for meat, wool and leather started along [[Alta California]]'s coast eventually spreading inland.  The U.S. era evolved from primarily ranching to large-scale [[plantation]]s or more commonly known today as [[corporate farming]] that turned the Central Valley into the [[Breadbasket#North America|breadbasket]] of the U.S.

Following the 1848 [[California Gold Rush]], large numbers of U.S. citizens came into the region and made attempts to practice [[rainfed agriculture]], but most of the Central Valley land was taken up by large cattle ranchers like [[Henry Miller (rancher)|Henry Miller]] who eventually controlled 22,000 square miles of land.<ref name="Miller">{{cite news |title=The King Of Ranchers |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/king-ranchers |newspaper=American Heritage |access-date=15 September 2019}}</ref> The large-scale [[levee]] construction by Chinese workers along the [[Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta#History|Delta]] was where limited [[irrigation]] for orchards first started.

Following the arrival of the [[Transcontinental railroad#Transcontinental railroad|Transcontinental railroad]], immigration from Asia and the rest of the U.S. led to growing numbers of settlers in the region. Despite the rich soils and favorable weather of the {{convert|42000|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} Central Valley, immigrants to the valley who were unfamiliar with its seasonal patterns of rainfall and flooding began to take up irrigation practices.  Farmers soon found themselves troubled by frequent floods in the Sacramento Valley and a general lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley.<ref name="historyoverview"/> The [[Sacramento River]], which drains the northern part, receives between 60 and 75% of the precipitation in the Valley, despite the Sacramento Valley covering less area than the much larger San Joaquin Valley, drained by the [[San Joaquin River]], which receives only about 25% of the rainfall. Furthermore, cities drawing water from the [[Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta]] faced problems in dry summer and autumn months when the inflowing water was low. In order to continue to sustain the valley's economy, there needed to be systems to regulate flows in the rivers and equally distribute water among the north and south parts of the valley.<ref name="historyoverview">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central%20Valley%20Project&pageType=ProjectHistoryPage |title=The Central Valley Project |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Bureau of Reclamation History Program |year=1994 |access-date=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613140442/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central%20Valley%20Project&pageType=ProjectHistoryPage |archive-date=2011-06-13 }}</ref>

===History===

In 1873, [[Barton S. Alexander]] completed a report for the [[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]] that was the first attempt at creating a Central Valley Project. In 1904, the Bureau of Reclamation (then the Reclamation Service) first became interested in creating such a water project, but did not get far involved until a series of droughts and related disasters occurred in the early 1920s.<ref name="historyoverview"/> The State of California passed the Central Valley Project Act in 1933, which authorized Reclamation to sell revenue bonds in order to raise about $170 million for the project.<ref name="historyoverview"/> Unfortunately, because of insufficient money in the state's treasury and the coincidence with the [[Great Depression]], California turned to the national government for funding to build the project. This resulted in several transfers of the project between California and the federal government, and between Reclamation and the Army Corps of Engineers. The first dams and canals of the project started going up in the late 1930s, and the last facilities were completed in the early 1970s. Other features of the project were never constructed, some lie partly finished, or are still awaiting authorization.<ref name="historyoverview"/>

=== Timeline ===
{{collapse top|title=CVP timeline prior to 1920|left=yes}}

* pre-western arrival – Tribal culture - seasonal migratory locations between the Tulares and [[Sierra Nevada foothills|Sierra foothills]]<ref>{{cite web |title=California Native American Tribes: Central Valley/Mountain Tribes |url=https://polytechnic.libguides.com/c.php?g=733930&p=5243613 |website=polytechnic.libguides.com |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* 1493 – The [[Papal Bull]] known as the Discovery Doctrine, in Latin titled the "Inter Caetera", gave [[Spain]] the right to take land and convert the indigenous occupants to Christianity in areas west of the Inter Caetera's line of demarcation, which divided the [[Western Hemisphere]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The Doctrine of Discovery, 1493 |url=https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/spotlight-primary-source/doctrine-discovery-1493 |website=.gilderlehrman.org |access-date=3 October 2019}}</ref>
* 1769–76 – The arrival of [[Spain#Spanish Empire|Spain]] and its [[Spanish missions in California]] - Indians promised sovereign control
* 1822 - [[Mexico#Early Post-Independence (1821–1855)|Republic of Mexico]] formed - breaks with Spain's sovereign promise to California [[Mission Indians]]
* 1823 - The Papal Bulls that made up the [[Discovery doctrine]] from 1455 and 1493 becomes part of U.S. Law
* [[Mexican secularization act of 1833|1833 - Secularization Act]] closes [[Spanish missions in California|California Missions]] and sells off church properties
*  The act initiated the transfer of 64 million acres<ref>{{cite web |title=California Native American Heritage Commission: SHORT OVERVIEW OF CALIFORNIA INDIAN HISTORY |url=http://nahc.ca.gov/resources/california-indian-history/ |website=nahc.ca.gov |access-date=5 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601001113/http://nahc.ca.gov/resources/california-indian-history/ |archive-date=June 1, 2019 |url-status=dead }}</ref> of tribal lands via [[List of ranchos of California|land grants]] or [[Ranchos of California|Ranchos]] to former Spanish citizens of [[Californio]] 
* [[California Republic|1846 Bear Flag Rebellion]] - as part of the [[Mexican–American War]] and U.S. invasion of California - Republic of California 
* 1846 - [[John C. Frémont|John Fremont]] kills original owner of the largest North American [[mercury (element)|mercury]] mine at [[New Almaden]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wheelan |first1=Albert |title=Slaying of Berreyesa and De Haro Brothers |url=https://archive.org/details/douglas20policej19271928sanf/page/n205 |website=archive.org |publisher=March 1928 San Francisco "2.0" Police Journal |access-date=29 September 2019}}</ref> after failing to buy it
* 1846 - [[Yerba Buena, California|Yerba Buena]] [[Ranchos of California|land grant]] takes its name from local Catholic mission and becomes San Francisco<ref>{{cite web |last1=Maldetto |first1=K. |title=WILLIAM RICHARDSON AND YERBA BUENA ORIGINS |url=http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=WILLIAM_RICHARDSON_AND_YERBA_BUENA_ORIGINS |website=Found SF |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref>
* 1848 - [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]] promises Mexican-Americans ownership of their [[Ranchos of California|Ranchos]] (ranches) and [[Water in California#Pueblo water rights|water rights]]
* 1849 - Influx of 80,000 immigrants during [[Gold Rush]] includes [[Squatters' riot|riots]] and land theft by [[Adverse possession|squatter]] movement
* Sept-Oct - Californians meets in Monterrey for the first [[California Constitutional Conventions|California Constitutional Convention]]
* 1850 - [[History of California|California]] admitted to Union
* 1850s - [[Hydraulic mining]] in gold region contaminates [[Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta|Sacramento Delta]] with silt and mercury<ref>{{cite web |last1=Main |first1=Douglas |title=Gold Rush's Poisonous Legacy: Mercury Will Linger for 10,000 Years |url=https://www.livescience.com/40794-gold-rush-mercury-pollution.html |website=LiveScience.come |date=October 29, 2013 |access-date=29 September 2019}}</ref>
* 1850 - [[Act for the Government and Protection of Indians|California Indian Protection Act]] removes Indian's civil rights and enslaves them,  starting the mass [[California Genocide|genocide]] of many of the state's 300 tribes
* 1850 - California adopts [[Common law#California (1850s)|British Common Law]] causing 70 years of disputes over water rights
* 1850 - Squatters cut down the world's largest [[Blossom Rock (San Francisco Bay)|Blossom Rock Redwoods]] and clearcut the groves on [[Rancho San Antonio (Peralta)|Peralta]] and [[Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados|Moraga's]] ranchos in Oakland hills<ref>{{cite web |title=Hidden redwood is remnant of forest giants |url=https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Hidden-redwood-is-remnant-of-forest-giants-4493517.php |website=SF Chronicle |date=May 7, 2013 |access-date=29 September 2019}}</ref> 
* [[California Land Act of 1851|1851-90 California Lands Commission]] - Mexican-American [[List of ranchos of California|Ranchos]] lost to whites
* 1851 - Catholic Church attempts to get land for Mission tribes from California Lands Commission but fails
* 1851-1890 - [[Population of Native California|Indians populations decimated]] 
* 1851 - Tribes Rounded up by U.S. Army and forced to [[California Indian Reservations and Cessions|sign 18 treaties]]<ref>{{cite web |title=California Military History California and The Indian Wars |url=http://www.militarymuseum.org/HistoryIW.html |website=militarymuseum.org |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* [[Swamp Land Act of 1850|1850 Swamp Act]] - Enables [[Henry Miller (rancher)|Henry Miller]] to eventually own over 1 million acres of land in the Central valley
* 1853 - Americans cut Mother of the Forest causing international uproar<ref>{{cite web |title=How a giant tree's death sparked the conservation movement 160 years ago |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/jun/27/giant-tree-death-conservation-movement |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 27, 2013 |access-date=29 September 2019}}</ref>
* The [[History of the lumber industry in the United States|history]] of [[Clearcutting]] in the [[Logging in the Sierra Nevada|Sierra Nevada Mountains]] resulted in expanded flooding and [[environmental degradation]] 
* 1853 - First documented American irrigation ditch constructed in Visalia, Tulare County<ref>{{cite news |title=Tulare, County, the Birthplace of San Joaquin Valley's Irrigation; First Ditches Were Dug in 1853 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210331.2.245&srpos=467&e=------192-en--20-SU-461-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=19 September 2019 |issue=31 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=31 March 1921 |volume=219 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* 1855 - [[James Van Ness|Van Ness ordinance]]<ref>{{cite news |title=The City's Relinquishment of Her Lands - A Scheme for the Settlement of City Titles |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DAC18550403.2.10&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-alta+california-------1 |access-date=25 November 2019 |volume=6 |issue=87 |page=2 |publisher=Daily Alta California |date=3 April 1855}}</ref> - State adopts<ref>{{cite news |title=CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE. Ninth Session - To the Senate of California : I have this day approved an Act " Concerning the city of San Francisco... |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18580312.2.2&e=-------en--20-SDU-1--txt-txIN-sacramento+union-------1 |access-date=25 November 2019 |volume=14 |issue=2171 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Daily Union |date=12 March 1858}}</ref> illegal grab of San Francisco lands<ref>{{cite web |title=CLARK v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/124/639 |website=law.cornell.edu |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* 1860 - San Francisco beats U.S. Government in Supreme Court over land claims<ref>{{cite web |title=15 Cal. 530, Hart v. Burnett |url=https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/15-cal-530-hart-609103318 |website=Vlex Court Cases |publisher=V Lex USA |access-date=29 September 2019 |archive-date=September 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929224217/https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/15-cal-530-hart-609103318 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
* 1861 - [[History of Chinese Americans#First wave: the beginning of Chinese immigration|Chinese]] build Sacramento [[Locke, California#History|Delta levees]]
* 1862 - [[Great Flood of 1862|Sacramento and levees destroyed]] by flooding - levees rebuilt
* 1862 - Lincoln passes [[Pacific Railroad Acts|Transcontinental Railroad Act]] giving away 140 million acres<ref>{{cite web |title=Rand McNally & Company How the Public Domain Has Been Squandered by Republican Congresses, 1884 |url=https://www.thehistorycenteronline.com/exhibits/grid/imagining-texas-an-historical-journey-with-maps/695 |website=hehistorycenteronline.com |publisher=democratic party |access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref> to railroad barons
* 1862 - [[Homestead Acts|Homestead Act]] allows adults who never took up arms against the government the right to claim 160 acres
* May 14 - California legislation permits the formation of canal construction companies<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Valley Project Documents, Volumes 1-2 By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6opNAQAAMAAJ&q=central+valley+project+documents&pg=PA18 |website=google books |year = 1956|publisher=u.s. printing office |access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref> 
* 1866 - San Francisco wins [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] case and all illegal land takings<ref>{{cite web |title=Townsend v. Greeley, 72 U.S. 326 (1866) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/72/326/ |website=supreme.justia.com |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* 1866 - The [[List of land-grant universities#California|University of California]] formed as [[Land-grant university]] with the right to take public lands
* 1866 - [https://www.fs.fed.us/im/directives/fsh/5509.11/5509.11,60.txt Mining Act] included the right of miners to take public lands for ditches and dams
* 1869 - [[Transcontinental railroad]] completed - new immigration rush
* 1869 - First systematic Irrigation was in Anaheim and Riverside<ref>{{cite web |title=1887 Wright Act history |url=https://archive.org/details/wrightirrigation00gidnrich/page/n7 |publisher=State of California |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
* 1872 - [[Desert Land Act]] allows irrigation and lands in the west
* 1872 - California Irrigation Act passed by the state legislature allowing for cooperative water irrigation development.<ref>{{cite web |title=1887 Wright Act history |url=https://archive.org/details/wrightirrigation00gidnrich/page/n3 |publisher=State of California |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
* 1872 - [[General Mining Act of 1872|US Mining Act]]
* 1873 - Congress sets up the [[Barton S. Alexander#Irrigation and land reclamation|Alexander Commission]] to design an irrigation system for the Central Valley.
* 1874 - Alexander Commission report sent to congress in March<ref>{{cite web |title=1874 - The Report of the Commissioners of the Irrigation of the San Joaquin, Tulare, and Sacramento Vallies in the State of California |url=https://archive.org/details/reportboardcomm00mendgoog/page/n6 |website=archive.org |year=1874 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
* 1878 - [[Workingmen's Party of California|Workingmen's Party]] takes control of state government on an anti-railroad campaign
* 1878 - [[William Hammond Hall]] obtains $100,000 to produce statewide irrigation plan - project collapses
* 1879 - [[California Constitutional Conventions|New Constitution]] for state passed by workingmen bans Southern Pacific R.R. lobbying<ref>{{cite web |title=1878–1879 Constitutional Convention Working Papers |url=https://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/collections/constitutions/1879/ |website=sos.ca.gov |access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref>
* 1880 - Formation of [[California Public Utilities Commission#History|California Railroad Commission]] known today as the California Public Utilities Commission
* 1884 - The use of [[Hydraulic mining]] in gold mining of the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra]]'s damages Sacramento watershed and is forced to stop
* 1886 - [[Lux v. Haggin|Miller-Lux Cattle Ranch v. Tevis-Haggins]] water wars: [[Riparian water rights|Riparian]] v. [[Prior-appropriation water rights]] 
* 1887 - State of California establishes the Modesto Irrigation District<ref>{{cite web |title=1887 Wright Act history |url=https://archive.org/details/wrightirrigation00gidnrich/page/n4 |publisher=State of California |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
* Mar 7 - [[Wright Act of 1887|California Wright Act]] okays the formation of irrigation districts.  [https://archive.org/details/wrightirrigation00gidnrich/page/n1 It was renamed as the California Irrigation District Act in 1917.]
* 1890 - Canal Act reserved federal authority for [[Right of way (property access)|right of way]] to canals on public lands<ref>{{cite web |title=Canal Act Of 1890 |url=https://legislation.lawi.us/canal-act-of-1890/ |website=legislation.lawi.us |access-date=16 February 2020 |archive-date=February 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216183812/https://legislation.lawi.us/canal-act-of-1890/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* 1898 - San Francisco passes Charter that calls for public ownership of transit, telephones, water and power<ref>{{cite web |title=1898 San Francisco City Charter |url=https://archive.org/details/charterforcityco1897sanf/page/124 |website=archive.org |year=1898 |access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref>
* 1899 - [[Elwood Mead]] is appointed by the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] to carry out irrigation surveys 
* 1901 - Right to Construct Reservoirs [https://archive.org/details/regsrightofwayca00unitiala/page/n3 by corporations] on public lands 
* [[Newlands Reclamation Act|1902 - National Reclamation Act]] passed that created the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] (USBR)
* 1902 - [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Tulare_Irrigation_District_v._Shepard Tulare Irrigation District v. Shepard irrigation district legal dispute]
* 1905 - [http://www.inyowater.org/documents/reports/owens-valley-water-history-chronology/ Owens valley water plan okayed by Los Angeles Water Commission]
* 1905 - $40 million statewide irrigation plan fails due to lack of financing support
* 1905 - [[Salton Sea#Modern formation|Salton Sea]] created by irrigation diversion of Colorado River
* 1907 - City of San Francisco votes to construct a water and power supply known as [[Hetch Hetchy]] that is located Yosemite<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hetch Hetchy Story, Part I: John Muir, Preservationists vs. Conservationists |url=http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=The_Hetch_Hetchy_Story,_Part_I:_John_Muir,_Preservationists_vs._Conservationists |website=foundsf.org |access-date=5 December 2019}}</ref>
* 1911 - Constitutional Act - California Railroad Commission takes over regulatory role of cities for electric rates<ref>{{cite web |title=Report of the Railroad Commission: Assembly Constitutional Amendment Number 6 - Chapter 53 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vvxCAQAAMAAJ&q=Assembly+Constitutional+Amendment+No.+6%2C+Cal.+Stats.+1911%2C+Res.+Ch.+53&pg=PA464 |website=google books |year = 1912|publisher=superintendent of state printing 1912 |access-date=19 September 2019}}</ref>
* [[Water Commission Act of 1913|1913 - Water Commission Act]] attempts to sort out the state's water rights
* 1913 - The [[Raker Act]] passes, permitting [[San Francisco]] to build a public water and power system at [[Hetch Hetchy]]
* 1915 - State Water Problems Conference set up holding hearings the following year - decision Riparian rights the problem
* 1915 - California Irrigation Act declared unconstitutional by state supreme court<ref>{{cite news |title=Irrigation Act of 1915 Found Illegal |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=4 August 1920}}</ref> 
* 1917 - California Hawson Bill provides relief to [[Prior-appropriation water rights|water appropriator claims]] from Riparian Rights lawsuits
* 1918-20 - State suffers severe drought
* 1919 - Chief Hydrographer of the [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] Robert Bradford Marshall<ref>{{cite web |title=Guide to the Robert Bradford Marshall papers, 1898-1949 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5n39n82d/entire_text/ |website=oac.cdlib.org |publisher=UC Berkeley |access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref> sends report titled the "Irrigation of Twelve Million Acres in the Valley of California"<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Valley Project Documents, Volumes 1-2 By United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6opNAQAAMAAJ&q=central+valley+project+documents&pg=PA139 |website=google books |year = 1956|publisher=U.S. Printing Office |access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref> to Governor [[William Stephens (American politician)|William Stephens]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roos |first1=Robert De |title=The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372 |date=1948 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372/page/n37 21]}}</ref> Marshall is considered the father of the Central Valley Project<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert B. Marshall |url=https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/robert-b-marshall |website=watereducation.org |access-date=16 February 2020}}</ref>
*  Jan 14 - The city of Oroville Ca. moves ahead with plan to purchase PG&E gas and power operations<ref>{{cite news |title=LIGHTINE SYSTEM On Valuations Fixed By State Railroad Commission City May Buy Both Gas and Light Plants. |page=3 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=15 January 1919}}</ref>
* Feb 3 -  U.S. presidential candidate Senator Hiram Johnson is in favor of public ownership of electric utilities<ref>{{cite news |title=Pulse of the Nation Ԃolishviki" Now |page=4 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=3 February 1919}}</ref>
* Feb 18 -  Glenn County Ca. considers formation of an Irrigation district to take advantage of planned Iron Mountain dam<ref>{{cite news |title=Glenn County Farmers Urged To Organize |issue=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=19 February 1919}}</ref>
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* '''1920''' Jan 4 -  Sacramento Valley Irrigation Association calls for water congress at the Capital<ref>{{cite news |title=CALLS WATER CONFERENCE Development Association Asks for Irrigation Meeting in February |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200104.2.17&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=212 |issue=4 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=4 January 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Jan 10 -  The [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|U.S. Corps of Engineers]] proposes 3 dams and a series of locks on the Sacramento River<ref>{{cite news |title=IRRIGATION AND NAVIGATION NOW WORK TOGETHER: Locks and DAms Proposed for the Sacramento |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CSH19200110.2.15&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-colusa+herald-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXIV |issue=87 |page=1 |publisher=Colusa Herald |date=10 January 1920}}</ref>
* Jan 14 - Western States request $250 million for irrigation projects<ref>{{cite news |title=BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT PLANNED To Develop Water to Irrigate A fid Regions in the West—First Meeting Held in Salt Lake City Last November |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RDP19200114.2.46&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-riverside+daily+press-------1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=12 |page=2 |publisher=Riverside Daily Press |date=14 January 1921}}</ref>
* Jan 23 - The Yuba-Nevada-Sutter Water and Power Association established for 80,000 acre water and power project<ref>{{cite news |title=IMMENSE IRRIGATION PLAN Water District Organized for Three Counties |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LR19200123.2.22&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-lompoc-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=I |issue=49 |page=4 |publisher=Lompoc Review |date=23 January 1920}}</ref>
* Jan 23 - Santa Barbara plan to add powerhouse as way to pay for the city's Gibraltar dam project<ref>{{cite news |title=Says Investment For Power Plant Would Benefit City |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MP19200123.2.102&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-morning+press-------1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=48 |issue=124 |page=10 |publisher=Santa Barbara Morning Press |date=23 January 1920}}</ref>
* Jan 24 - [[Eureka, California|Eureka]] Chamber of Commerce opposes proposed dam across [[Eel River (California)|Eel River]] others opposed due to fishing impacts<ref>{{cite news |title=EUREKA PEOPLE ARE KICKING ON THE DAM |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HE19200124.2.40&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-healdsberg+enterprise-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XLIII |issue=25 |page=3 |publisher=Healdsburg Enterprise |date=24 January 1920}}</ref>
* Jan 29 - PG&E which relies heavily on hydro-electricity prepares emergency power plans due to lack of rainfall<ref>{{cite news |title=PG& E PREPARING FOR A POSSIBLE DRY SEASON |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CSH19200129.2.20&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-colusa+herald-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXIV |issue=95 |page=1 |publisher=Colusa Herald |date=29 January 1920}}</ref>
* Feb 8 - Interior Secretary [[Franklin Knight Lane|Franklin Lane]] requests $12.8 million for annual western irrigation funding<ref>{{cite news |title=SECRETARY LANE ASKS MORE MONEY TO IRRIGATE WEST |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200208.2.188&srpos=183&e=------192-en--20--181-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=8 February 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Feb 8 - [[The Sacramento Union]] asks public to "Pray for rain" on the front page of its newspaper
* Feb 11 - [[Nevada County, California|Nevada County]] farmers protest PG&E's attempt to divert their water supplies at California Railroad Commission<ref>{{cite news |title=FIGHT TO SAVE WATER STARTS Nevada County Residents Oppose Power Co.ӳ Petition. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200211.2.161&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=212 |issue=42 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Feb 24 - Miller & Lux legal fight against the Madera Irrigation District to take water from the San Joaquin River<ref>{{cite news |title=MILLER & LUX TO FIGHT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19200224.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-madera+mercury-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXIV |issue=216 |page=1 |work=Madera Mercury |date=24 February 1920}}</ref> 
* Feb 25 - Major Water and Power rationing announced due to Northern California drought<ref>{{cite news |title=Will RATION WATER POWER Lack of Rain and Snow in Upper State Compels Drastic Action HOPE OF RICE CROP IS ALREADY GONE Railroad and Water Commissions Will Map Conservation Program |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RDP19200225.2.19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-riverside+daily+press+news-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=48 |page=1 |publisher=Riverside Daily Press |date=25 February 1920}}</ref>
* Feb 26 - The Sacramento Valley water and irrigation congress asks governor to call a special legislative session on drought<ref>{{cite news |title=ASK SPECIAL SESSION ON WATER Propose Establishment of Conservation Districts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200227.2.30&e=------192-en--20--261-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=212 |issue=58 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=27 February 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Mar 13 - Proposal to build three powerhouses and divert [[American River]] water for irrigation in [[Placer County, California|Placer County]]<ref>{{cite news |title=New Plan Proposed to Tap American River for Irrigation: TO BE PRESENTED AT TODAYӓ MEETING |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200313.2.14&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=213 |issue=13 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=13 March 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Mar 25 - Ninety California power companies meet and agree to let state power administrator manage power during crisis<ref>{{cite news |title=TO DISTRIBUTE STATE POWER |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MP19200325.2.19&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-morning+press-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=48 |issue=177 |page=1 |publisher=Santa Barbara Morning Press |date=25 March 1920}}</ref>
* April 21 - PG&E announces plans to spend $15 Million in next two years on new power development<ref>{{cite news |title=PLAN SPENDING OF $15,000,000 Pacific Gas and Electric to Make Additions and Betterments. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200421.2.107&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=213 |issue=52 |page=9 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=21 April 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* April 30 - Sacramento politicians call for takeover of PG&E's electric and transit system<ref>{{cite news |title=POWER PEOPLE ARE ARRAIGNED Yell and City Commissioners Take Stand for Public Ownership. Bond Issue to Establish Municipal Plants Are Urged |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200430.2.105&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=213 |issue=61 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=30 April 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May - The [[National Electric Light Association]] releases its National Water power report<ref>{{cite journal |last1=National Electric Light Association |title=Developing National Water Power |journal=Journal of Electricity |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aec_AQAAMAAJ&q=volume+44+journal+electricity&pg=PA463 |date=15 May 1920 |volume=44 |issue=10 |page=463}}</ref>
* May 1 - PG&E announces $10 million plan to construct hydro-electric [[Pit 3 Dam|dams]] on [[Pit River]]<ref>{{cite news |title=PLAN LARGEST POWER PLANT - Pit River System Has Water to Develop 420,000 Horsepower. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200501.2.131&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=214 |issue=1 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=1 May 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 11 - The California Railroad Commission (CPUC) emergency plan opposed by the Association of Irrigation Districts of Northern California<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER SAVING POLICY Irrigation Delegates Protest Against Plan Proposed by Rail Board. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200511.2.87&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=214 |issue=11 |page=6 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=11 May 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 13 - PG&E acknowledged during hearings that it used ratepayer money for political campaigns<ref>{{cite news |title=GAS COMPANY USED MONEY IN CAMPAIGN |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RBDN19200513.2.10&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN-water+and+power+-ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION---1922---1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXVI |issue=164 |page=1 |publisher=Red Bluff Daily News |date=13 May 192 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 17 - [[Yolo County, California|Yolo County]] announces plan to create 100,000 acre irrigation district<ref>{{cite news |title=Solving a Great Problem |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200517.2.77&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=214 |issue=17 |page=4 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=17 May 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 18 - Proposal to construct dam across the [[Carquinez Strait]] to stop saltwater incursions<ref>{{cite news |title=CARQUINEZ DAM WILL BE URGED: Construction Means Solution of Many Water Problems, Assertion. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200518.2.12&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |volume=214 |issue=18 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=18 May 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 27 - Impacts of [[Clearcutting]] [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada's]] Forests and flooding Central Valley made public<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER VITAL FARM FACTOR - Close Relation Exists Between Forested Areas and Irrigation |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200527.2.80&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=214 |issue=27 |page=5 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=27 May 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* June 7 - Water wars between Northern California irrigation districts and [[Contra Costa County, California|Contra Costa]] and Delta farmers over [[Saltwater intrusion in California|salt water incursions]]<ref>{{cite news |title=OFFER OLIVE BRANCH TO DELTA BIT PREPARE FOR LEGAL FIGHT May Settle Water Trouble by Forming Great Conservation District. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200607.2.133&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=214 |issue=38 |page=6 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=7 June 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* June 10 - [[Federal Power Act|1920 Federal Water Power Act]] Signed into law that allows for expediting nationwide development of [[Hydroelectricity|hydro-electric projects]] on U.S. rivers
* June 20 - PG&E applies to state railroad commission for rule changes to protect itself during power and water shortage<ref>{{cite news |title=Impending Shortage Of Power Shown in Move by P.G. & E. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19200620.2.34&e=-------en--20-SRPD-1--txt-txIN-santa+rosa+press+daily-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XLVI |issue=305 |page=2 |publisher=Santa Rosa Press Democrat |date=20 June 1920}}</ref>
* July 4 - U.S. War Department begins investigation of building 4 dams and mobile [[Lock (water navigation)|locks]] on Sacramento River<ref>{{cite news |title=FOUR DAMS IN RIVER PLANNED War Department Orders a Survey of the Water Situation. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200704.2.211&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=4 |page=15 |publisher=Sacramento Unon }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* July 10 - PG&E curtails afternoon water pumping in five irrigation districts<ref>{{cite news |title=Restriction Put On Use of Power |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200710.2.123&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=10 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=10 July 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* July 13 - [[Antioch, California|City of Antioch]] starts lawsuit against rice farmers that threatens Water supply<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER BATTLE GROWS BITTER Both Sides See Ruin Unless Rescued by Action of Courts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200714.2.4&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=14 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=14 July 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* July 24 - The Madera Irrigation District starts the Madera dam project on [[San Joaquin River]] which later becomes [[Friant Dam]]<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER AND POWER IN 3 YEARS |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19200724.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-madera+mercury-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXIV |issue=241 |page=1 |work=Madera Mercury |date=24 July 1920}}</ref>
* July 27 - California representative protests Nevada's plan to take [[Lake Tahoe]] water<ref>{{cite news |title=KENT PROTESTS CUTTING BAR Nevadans Active in Efforts to Lower Water Level of Lake Tahoe. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200727.2.113&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=27 |page=6 |publisher=Sacramento Union }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* July 28 - 800,000 acres of [[Henry Miller (rancher)|Miller-Lux]] land and water rights to be subdivided and sold to small farmers<ref>{{cite news |title=TO SUBDIVIDE MILLION ACRES Miller and Lux Holdings in Five States Will Be Sold to Settlers. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200728.2.102&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=28 |page=6 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=27 July 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* July 31 - The Glenn-Colusa irrigation district announce plan for a 1 million acre reservoir in [[Shasta County, California|Shasta county]]<ref>{{cite news |title=GREAT STORAGE PLAN INDICATED Application Is Filed to Store 1,000,000 Acre Feet of Water in Shasta. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200731.2.134&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=3 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=31 July 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Aug 5 - Irrigation companies organize their own plan for water development<ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Irrigation Companies To Unite in Water Allotment State Engineers.and Reclamation Officials Offer Assistance to Big Representative Committee |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200805.2.8&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=36 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=5 August 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Aug 15 - Colonel Robert B Marshall of USGS Plan introduced at Sacramento Valley Development Assoc.<ref>{{cite news |title=BIG IRRIGATION PROJECT IS OUTLINED ҃olonel Marshall Presents Comprehensive Program to Valley Men. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200815.2.2&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=46 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=15 August 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Central Valley Project Documents, Volumes 1-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6opNAQAAMAAJ&q=central+valley+project+documents&pg=PA139 |website=google |year = 1956|publisher=U.S. Printing Office |access-date=3 December 2019}}</ref>
* Aug 24 - War Department's plan for four Dam dragged into lawsuit between Antioch and California rice farmers<ref>{{cite news |title=PLAN FOR DAMS IS PRESENTED Government Proposals for Settling Water Problem Heard in Suit. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200824.2.151&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=215 |issue=55 |page=8 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=24 August 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Sept 26 - Major support for state Marshall Plan announced<ref>{{cite news |title=Association Formed to Put Over Marshall Program |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19200926.2.30&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=25 |issue=26 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=26 September 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Oct 7 -  Carquinez Straights dam not feasible<ref>{{cite news |title=STRAITS DAM NOT FEASIBLE New Army Engineer Is Skeptical oT Carquinez Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201007.2.107&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=216 |issue=37 |page=8 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=7 October 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Oct 11 - Court case between Rice farmers and Antioch continues<ref>{{cite news |title=ARGUMENTS IN ANTIOCH CASE BEGIN TODAY Court Voyage May Determine Issue in Big Irrigation Suit. IS INTRICATE PROBLEM Delta Land Owners Arrayed Against Upper Valley Farmers. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201011.2.147&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=216 |issue=41 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=11 October 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Oct 17 - Marshall Plan will ask state legislature for $500,000 survey<ref>{{cite news |title=LEGISLATURE IS TO BE ASKED FOR AID Irrigation Association Seeking $500,000 for Water Survey, COL. MARSHALL SPEAKS Plan Provides for Irrigation of Approximately Twelve Million Acres. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201017.2.6&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=216 |issue=47 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=17 October 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Oct 30 - The California State Irrigation Association expands its operations and support for statewide Marshall water plan<ref>{{cite news |title=STATE-WIDE WATER CONSERVATION PLAN DEMANDS ATTENTION |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=PRP19201030.2.21&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-pacific+rural+press-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=100 |issue=18 |page=578 |publisher=Pacific Rural Press |date=30 October 1920}}</ref>
* Nov 10 - [[League of California Cities|California League of Municipalities]] to cooperate in legislation on public power and water<ref>{{cite news |title=URGES CITIES TO CO-OPERATE --- Municipal League Secretary Suggests Legislative Action. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201110.2.83&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=217 |issue=10 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=10 November 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=League of California Municipalities Public Utilities Discussion |journal=League of California Municipalities |date=December 1920 |volume=XXXIV |issue=12 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/pacificmunicipal341920leag/page/n479 452]-490 |url=https://archive.org/details/pacificmunicipal341920leag |access-date=27 October 2019}}</ref>
* Nov 11 - Valley Cities urged to develop public power<ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Cities Are Urged to Develop Own Electric Power |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201111.2.18&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=217 |issue=11 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=11 November 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Nov 20 -  Klamath Chamber of Commerce opens hearings on public vs. private power and water development<ref>{{cite news |title=START INQUIRE ON DAM PLANS ---- Chamber of Klamath Hears Both Sides on Link River Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201120.2.56&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=217 |issue=20 |page=6 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=20 November 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Nov 21 - Locals opposed to California-Oregon Power Company's [[Klamath River]] power monopoly<ref>{{cite news |title=DAM PROJECT HEARING ENDS --- Klamath Post Fears Power Company Would Control Storage. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201121.2.81&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=217 |issue=21 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=21 November 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Dec 21 - Giant Boulder Dam plan on Colorado River by Southern California Edison announced<ref>{{cite news |title=IMMENSE P0WER PLAN LAUNCHED Government Grants Permit to Develop 2,500,000 H. P. on Colorado. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19201221.2.18&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=14 October 2019 |volume=217 |issue=51 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=21 December 1920 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* 1920 PUC report on SVWCo
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* '''1921''' - The Municipal Utility District Act (MUD Act) passed by the California Legislature
* Jan 5 - Marshall Plan proposes Shasta dam to be located at Kennett rather than Iron Mountain<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER ONLY QUESTION Site For the Dam Is Not Material MARSHALL PLAN ON LARGE SCALE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RBDN19210105.2.21&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN-water+and+power+-ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION---1922---1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXVII |issue=51 |page=1 |publisher=Red Bluff Daily News |date=5 January 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Jan 7 - State Senator M.B Johnson introduces California Water and Power senate bill<ref>{{cite news |title=Measures and Resolutions Introduced in Legislature |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210107.2.31&srpos=47&e=------192-en--20-SU-41-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=15 October 2019 |volume=218 |issue=7 |page=3 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=7 January 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Jan 7 – 13 years of bloodshed and litigation end with PG&E winning water rights<ref>{{cite news |title=Power Company Pays $95,000 for Rights |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210101.2.70&e=------192-en--20-SU-161-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------ |access-date=15 October 2019 |volume=218 |issue=1 |page=5 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=7 January 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Jan 11 - The California State Irrigation Association and Sacramento Union promotes Marshall Plan review<ref>{{cite news |title=Examine the Marshall Plan |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210111.2.42&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=15 October 2019 |volume=218 |issue=11 |page=4 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=11 January 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Jan 21 - $500,000 for Marshall water plan study introduced at state legislature<ref>{{cite news |title=State Irrigation Measure To Be Introduced Today |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210121.2.19&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=15 October 2019 |volume=218 |issue=21 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=21 January 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Jan 29 - League of California Municipalities develop plan for public power legislation<ref>{{cite news |title=MOVE STARTED TO DEVELOP POWER Municipalities Band Together to Take Advantage of Water Resources. NEED FOR QUICK ACTION Marshall Plan Looked Upon With Favor; Meeting at City Hall |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210129.2.5&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=15 October 2019 |volume=218 |issue=29 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=29 January 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Jan 29 - Sacramento City Attorney attacks California Railroad commission for bias towards PG&E<ref>{{cite news |title=SHINN FLAYS RAIL BOARD Says Commission and Public Utilities Practically Stop Development. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210129.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-sacramento+union-------1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=218 |issue=29 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=29 January 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Jan 30 - Marshall Plan endorsement by League of California Municipalities<ref>{{cite news |title=LEAGUE FAVORS MARSHALL PLAN Scheme for Water Conservation Indorsed by Organization of Municipalities |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210130.2.9&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=15 October 2019 |volume=218 |issue=30 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=30 January 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Feb 23 - Marshall Plan endorsed by Southern California municipalities<ref>{{cite news |title=MARSHALL PLAN IS GIVEN ENDORSEMENT Municipal Representatives of Southland in Meeting Here Want Legislature to Investigate Water and Power Resources of State |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RDP19210223.2.86&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-riverside+daily+press-------1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXVI |issue=46 |page=3 |publisher=Riverside Daily Press |date=23 February 1921}}</ref> 
* Mar 10 - The California State Irrigation Association sends Col. Marshall's list of 346 reservoir candidates to the League of California Municipalities<ref>{{cite news |title=LIST RESERVOIR SITES OF STATE -- SIERRA HAS 216 SITES ABOVE IRRIGABLE LANDS AND 130 ALONG FOOTHILLS |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HS19210310.2.104&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-hanford+daily+sentinel+-------1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |volume=66 |issue=97 |page=7 |publisher=Hanford Sentinel |date=10 March 1921}}</ref>
* Mar 14 - Details of the Marshall Plan promoted by the California State Irrigation Association<ref>{{cite news |title=MARSHALL PLAN RESULT OF LONG STUDY OF RESOURCES OF STATE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210314.2.104&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=15 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=14 |page=6 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=14 March 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Mar 15 - Municipal Utility District law results in heavy debate<ref>{{cite news |title=Municipal Utility Act Causes Debate |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210315.2.30&srpos=4&e=------192-en--20-SU-1-byDA-txt-txIN-municipal+utility+district+act-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=15 |page=2 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=15 March 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Mar 20 - State, federal and global impacts on the passage of the [[Federal Power Act|1920 Water and Power Act]]<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER POWER AND WORLD TRADE: Nature Provides It and Man Seems About To Put Some of it to His Own Uses Now That the President Has Signed the Water Power Bill. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210320.2.271&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=20 |page=31 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=20 March 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 2 - San Francisco Commonwealth Club opposes Marshall Plan during legislative hearings in Sacramento<ref>{{cite news |title=OPPOSITION TO MARSHALL PLAN LOUDLY VOICED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RBDN19210402.2.3&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN-water+and+power+-ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION---1922---1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXVIII |issue=123 |page=1 |publisher=Red Bluff Daily News |date=2 April 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 2 - Attempt by electric company supporter to kill Johnson's Water and Power Bill fails in Senate<ref>{{cite news |title=Motion to Re-refer Power Measure Lost After Clash |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210402.2.74&srpos=518&e=------192-en--20-SU-501-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=33 |page=5 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=2 April 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 21 - Growing concern in San Joaquin Valley over Southern California power companies taking hydro-electric sites<ref>{{cite news |title=HYDROGRAB MENACE SEEN |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19210421.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-madera+mercury-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=23 |page=1 |work=Madera Mercury |date=21 April 1921}}</ref>
* Apr 22 - Marshall Plan for Sacramento River irrigation survey given $200,000 by legislature<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER SURVEY MEASURE PASSES |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210422.2.7&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=53 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=22 April 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 26 - Johnson Power & Water Bill 397 loses by 4 votes in assembly committee<ref>{{cite news |title=Fight to Withdraw Power Bill Fails |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210427.2.114&srpos=668&e=------192-en--20-SU-661-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=58 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=27 April 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 28 - Municipal Utility District Act passed by state senate<ref>{{cite news |title=BILLS PASSED IN THE SENATE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210428.2.42&srpos=5&e=------192-en--20-SU-1-byDA-txt-txIN-municipal+utility+district+act-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=59 |page=2 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=28 April 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 30 - Sacramento Union editorial calls for statewide vote after electric company lobby kills Johnson Power Bill<ref>{{cite news |title=Let the People Decide. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210430.2.49&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=219 |issue=61 |page=4 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=30 April 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 4 - Sacramento City Commission resolution calls for emergency meeting of League of California Municipalities (248 cities)over Johnson bill<ref>{{cite news |title=Power Conference Is Called Here |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210504.2.211&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=220 |issue=4 |page=12 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=4 May 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 9 - Sacramento City Attorney says public ownership could reduce electric rates from 8 cents to .8 cent<ref>{{cite news |title=Tax Rate Reduced by Ownership of Power Plant in Roseville |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210509.2.156&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=220 |issue=9 |page=8 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=9 May 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 17 - Sacramento City Commission report on building its own hydro-electric site on Silver Creek<ref>{{cite news |title=POWER REPORT SOON COMPLETE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210517.2.203&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=220 |issue=17 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=17 May 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* May 20 - Plan set up for statewide public power initiative at emergency meeting of League of California Municipalities<ref>{{cite news |title=Citizens May Vot on Power Development; Decks Clear for Concerted Action of Cities |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210521.2.20&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=220 |issue=21 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=21 May 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* May 20 - California State Irrigation Association endorses Marshall plan and Municipal League's statewide vote<ref>{{cite news |title=MARSHALL PLAN BILL PRAISED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210521.2.8&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=16 October 2019 |volume=220 |issue=21 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=21 May 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* May 24 - Governor signs Municipal Utility District Act into law<ref>{{cite news |title=STEPHENS SIGNS MANY MEASURES |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210524.2.67&srpos=6&e=------192-en--20-SU-1-byDA-txt-txIN-municipal+utility+district+act-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=220 |issue=24 |page=5 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=24 May 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* June 4 - $200,000 survey fund for Marshall Plan signed by governor<ref>{{cite news |title=REDWOOD BILL IS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR - Marshall Plan Measure and Farm School Appropriation Are Approved |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210604.2.2&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=220 |issue=35 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=4 June 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* July 1 - Miller and Lux loses its lawsuit to stop the Madera Irrigation District from using water from the San Joaquin river<ref>{{cite news |title=Miller & Lux Lose Again To Madera District Hawson Act Upheld |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19210701.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-madera+mercury-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=75 |page=1 |work=Madera Mercury |date=1 July 1921}}</ref>
* July 22 - Summary of the proposed Water and Power Act is modeled like the Ontario Canada hydro-electric system<ref>{{cite news |title=Plan State Control and Financing Hydro-Electric And Other Water Projects |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19210722.2.31&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-madera+mercury-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=92 |page=4 |work=Madera Mercury |date=22 July 1921}}</ref>
* July 27 - State Water & Power Act initiative petition drive announced<ref>{{cite news |title=STATE-AID FOR WATER POWER PROJECTS PLAN - Initiative Measure Prepared for Submission to Vote in November 1922 |volume=CXIX |issue=12 |page=12 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=27 July 1921}}</ref>
* July 28 - Sacramento City Attorney Robert Shinn comes out against statewide Water and Power initiative<ref>{{cite news |title=SHINN OPPOSES WATER POWER AMENDMENT Says Project Just Launched Is Not Same Thing as Johnson Measure. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210728.2.2&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=221 |issue=28 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=28 July 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Aug 4 - Riverside Chamber of Commerce circulates claim of "City Against Country" over Los Angeles public power<ref>{{cite news |title=City Against Country |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210804.2.58&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=221 |issue=35 |page=4 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=4 August 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Aug 29 - Committee redraft of initiative accepted by Shinn with petition gathering for 120,000 signatures to begin<ref>{{cite news |title=Initiative Petition for Water Power Act Will Be Circulated in Few Days |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210829.2.123&srpos=116&e=------192-en--20-SU-101-byDA-txt-txIN-shinn-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=221 |issue=25729 |page=8 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=29 August 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Sept 29 - California state control of water and power urged by former Interior Secretary Gifford Pinchot<ref>{{cite news |title=POWER MONOPOLY IN CALIFORNIA THREATENED, CHARGE - PUBLIC CONTROL OF WATER URGED BY PINCHOT Industrial Independence is Seen in California Water and Power Act. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210929.2.6&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=222 |issue=25760 |page=1 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=29 September 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Sept 14 - $500 million public Water and Power plan will be on the 1922 election<ref>{{cite web |title=Water Power Development |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19210914.2.53&srpos=595&e=------192-en--20-SU-581-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan-ARTICLE------1 |website=cdnc.ucr.edu |publisher=Sacramento Union |access-date=30 September 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Nov 15 - state funded Marshall survey of water resources begins<ref>{{cite news |title=BIG WATER SURVEY STARTS TOMORROW |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19211115.2.171&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=223 |issue=25808 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=15 November 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Nov 22 - Water and Power initiative attacked by state senator<ref>{{cite news |title=ROMINGER FLAYS WATER, POWER ACT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19211122.2.27&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=223 |issue=25815 |page=3 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=22 November 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Dec 29 - Herbert Hoover placed in charge of Colorado River Commission that is reviewing plan for Boulder dam<ref>{{cite news |title=Hoover Heads Colorado Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19211229.2.129&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=223 |issue=25852 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=29 December 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Dec 29 - State railroad commission okays PG&E plan for $5 million to expand its Pit River hydro-electric developments<ref>{{cite news |title=$5,000,000 NEEDED FOR PIT RIVER WORK |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19211229.2.75&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=17 October 2019 |volume=223 |issue=25852 |page=3 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=29 December 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Dec 31 - Water & Power Initiative qualifies for November 1922 statewide ballot<ref>{{cite news |title=WATERPOWER PETITION WINS BALLOT PLACE |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19211231.2.84&srpos=1&e=------192-en--20-SU-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-initiative+-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=223 |issue=25854 |page=8 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=31 December 1921 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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* '''1922''' Jan 1 - World's highest dam proposed at Boulder Canyon<ref>{{cite news |title=PROPOSED IRRIGATION PROJECT CALLS FOR WORLD'S HIGHEST DAM |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19220101.2.139&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=224 |issue=25855 |page=12 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=1 January 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Jan 6 - The Water and Power Initiative qualifies for the November 1922 ballot<ref>{{cite news |title=TWO INITIATIVE MEASURES QUALIFY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LHS19220106.2.35&e=-------en--20-LHS-1--txt-txIN-la+habra+star-------1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |volume=VI |issue=73 |page=1 |publisher=La Habra Star |date=6 January 1922}}</ref>
* Jan 22 - PG&E front group "Greater California League" attacks water and power act<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cook |first1=Benning |title=Water and Power Act Assailed - Greater California League Chief Caustic - Calls Plan "Public Ownership" |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=22 January 1922}}</ref>
* Feb 23 - Antioch decides to build reservoirs to store water to counter summer salt-water incursions<ref>{{cite news |title=ANTIOCH WATER PLAN TO BE TOPIC MONDAY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19220223.2.93&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=224 |issue=25908 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=23 February 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Feb 24 - PG&E president attacks water and power act initiative at Modesto Progressive men's Business club<ref>{{cite news |title=PROPOSED WATER AND POWER ACT CRITICISED AS BEING OPPOSED TO CO-OPERATION |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19220224.2.29&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-madera+mercury-------1 |access-date=19 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=276 |page=4 |work=Madera Mercury |date=24 February 1922}}</ref>
* Mar 7 - California State Irrigation Association comes out against water and power initiative<ref>{{cite news |title=MARSHALL PLAN ADVOCATES NOT FOR IT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RDP19220307.2.167&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-riverside+press+daily-------1 |access-date=21 October 2019 |volume=XXXVII |issue=56 |page=6 |publisher=Riverside Press Daily |date=7 March 1922}}</ref>
* Mar 17 - Boulder (Hoover) Dam okayed<ref>{{cite news |title=BOULDER CANYON DAM IS APPROVED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19220317.2.147&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=225 |issue=25930 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=17 March 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 1 - Summary of the Water and Power Act debate held by the Commonwealth Club of California<ref>{{cite news |title=How the Water and Power Act Will Help. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=PRP19220401.2.11&srpos=110&e=------192-en--20--101-byDA-txt-txIN-water+plan+and+Pacific+gas-ARTICLE------1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=103 |issue=13 |page=376 |publisher=Pacific Rural Press |date=1 April 1922}}</ref>
* Apr 2 - Application for major Shasta water diversion by engineers from San Joaquin Light & Power company<ref>{{cite news |title=BIG WATER FILING REVEALS PROJECT -- S. F. Engineers Plan Power and Irrigation From Shasta Streams. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19220402.2.181&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=225 |issue=25949 |page=21 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=2 April 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Apr 16 - Full page attack against Water and Power act published by S.F. Chronicle<ref>{{cite news |last1=de Young |first1=M.H. |title=An Attempt to Wreck the State of California |issue=91 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=16 April 1922|volume=70 }}</ref>
* Apr 30 - San Francisco Chronicle claims water and Power act is an attempt to "foist communism on people"<ref>{{cite news |title=Newspapers of California Find Distinct Menace in Provisions of Proposed Water and Power Measure - Voters are Told that Constitutional Amendment Is an Attempt to Foist Communism on People of Entire State |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=30 April 1922}}</ref>
* May 4 - Supreme Court to rule on PG&E ratebase inclusion of $52 million decision by state railroad commission<ref>{{cite news |title=SUPREME COURT WIU BE ASKED TO RULE ON ASSETS OF PUBLIC UTILITY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19220504.2.61&e=------192-en--20-SU-1-byDA-txt-txIN-water+and+power+hearing-ARTICLE---1922--- |access-date=27 October 2019 |issue=25981 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=4 May 1922 |volume=226 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> 
* Jun 11 - Robert Marshall comes out against the Water and power act (he later reverses himself)<ref>{{cite news |title=MARSHALL OPPOSES WATER. POWER ACT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19220611.2.73&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=226 |issue=26019 |page=7 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=11 June 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Sep 28 - Water and Power Act leader, [[Rudolph Spreckels]] blames power companies for his ouster at bank<ref>{{cite news |title=Spreckels Blames the Power Interests |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RDP19220928.2.16&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-riverside+press+daily-------1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXVII |issue=231 |page=1 |publisher=Riverside Press Daily |date=28 September 1922}}</ref>
* Sep 30 - First phase in PG&E's $100 million Pit River hydro-electric project turned on<ref>{{cite news |title=COMPLETION OF GREAT PROJECT CELEBRATED • Thousands Cheer as Power Is Turned On at Pit River Plant and Received at Vaca Substation; Civic Leaders Give Addresses on Importance of Pacific Gas and Electric Company's $100,000,000 Project in the Development of California |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RBDN19220930.2.8&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN-water+and+power+-ARTICLE%2cILLUSTRATION---1922---1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXIX |issue=279 |page=1 |publisher=Red Bluff Daily News |date=30 September 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Oct 2 - Riverside Daily Press prints story that lies about Rudolph Spreckels and power and water act history<ref>{{cite news |title=TELLS HISTORY OF POWER ACT Proposition Originated With Rudolph Spreckels—Some Reasons Why He is Interested in Promoting This Movement |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=RDP19221002.2.61&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-riverside+press+daily-------1 |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=XXXVII |issue=234 |page=4 |publisher=Riverside Daily Press |date=2 October 1922}}</ref>
* [https://repository.uchastings.edu/ca_ballot_props/169/ Proposition 19 - Water and Power Initiative Summary and full wording]
* Nov 9 - Proposition 19 (Water and Power Act) loses (243,604 to 597,453<ref>{{cite journal |title=WATER AND POWER Proposition Summary |url=https://repository.uchastings.edu/ca_ballot_props/169/ |journal=Propositions |date=January 1922 |access-date=19 October 2019}}</ref>)<ref>{{cite news |title=Propositions |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19221109.2.14&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=229 |issue=26169 |page=2 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=9 November 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* Nov - 1922 Water and power Act initiative fails due to $3 million dollar electric industry PR campaign<ref>{{cite news |title=What's a Thousand Dollars One Way or the Other? That is When Millions are Involved |publisher=Sacramento Star |date=November 1922}}</ref>
* Water & Power Act electric company fraud investigated in 1934 by FTC.  Testimony placed expenditure at over $1 million against initiative - working on cite - 
* Dec 1 - Water Power Act supporters plan for a new initiative attempt for 1924<ref>{{cite news |title=DRIVE ORGANIZED FOR WATER AND POWER ACT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SU19221201.2.151&e=------192-en--20-SU-721-byDA-txt-txIN-johnson-ARTICLE---1921--- |access-date=18 October 2019 |volume=229 |issue=26191 |page=10 |publisher=Sacramento Union |date=1 December 1922 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
* '''1923''' Feb - California media fails to expose $14,000 bribe, uncovered during senate investigation, to California State Irrigation Association by electric front group for reversing support of water and power initiative<ref>{{cite book |title=FTC 71-A Utility corporations. Letters from the chairman of the Federal trade commission transmitting, in response to Senate resolution no. 83, 70th Congress, a monthly report on the electric power and gas utilities inquiry. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2937784&view=image&seq=587 |via=Hathitrust.org | series=[United States] 70th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Doc. 92 |publisher=U.S. Printing Office |access-date=21 October 2019}}</ref>
* Feb 12 - State Senate investigation exposes opponents spent $234,000 to stop the Water and Power initiative<ref>{{cite news |title=$234,000 SPENT AGAINST POWER ACT IS SHOWN |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SLODT19230212.2.77&srpos=8&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN-senator+herbert+jones----1923---1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |issue=289 |page=7 |publisher=San Luis Obispo Daily Telegram |date=13 February 1923}}</ref>
* Feb 13 - San Francisco Civic League of Improvement given $4,000 to distribute 200,000 flyers against Water and Power initiative<ref>{{cite news |title=SKALLER TELLS HOW HE EARNED HIS $2000 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCEN19230213.1.10&srpos=299&e=------192-en--20--281-byDA-txt-txIN-pacific+gas+electric----1923---1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |volume=31 |issue=88 |page=10 |work=Santa Cruz Evening News |date=13 February 1923}}</ref>
* Feb 13 - Former SF Mayor and labor leader given $10,000 to oppose initiative while unions were all for it<ref>{{cite news |title=P. G. & E, GAVE WITHOUT STINT TO KILL BILL San Francisco Labor Leader Tells of Big Influence Brought to Bear on Workers "No Limit Placed on Funds" Official Tells Committee; Results Only Were Wanted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CR19230213.2.14&srpos=74&e=------192-en--20--61--txt-txIN-pacific+gas+electric----1923---1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |issue=36 |page=1 |publisher=Chico Record |date=13 February 1923}}</ref>
* Feb 13 - Southern California newspaper reports $393,000 spent against water and power initiative<ref>{{cite news |title=Expenditares In Campaign Investigated |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19230213.2.35&srpos=5&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN-senator+herbert+jones----1923---1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |page=2 |publisher=San Pedro |date=13 February 1923}}</ref>
* Feb 16 - New PG&E filings with senate investigation place total spent against water and power initiative at over $500,000<ref>{{cite news |title=FORMER S. F. MAYOR ADMITS FIGHTING BILL FOR CASH POWER INTEREST PAY $l0,000 FOR ELECTION WORK P. H. McCarthy Declares His Share of Spoils Was Insignificant |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CR19230216.2.2&srpos=332&e=------192-en--20--321-byDA-txt-txIN-pacific+gas+electric----1923---1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |publisher=Chico Record |date=16 February 1923}}</ref>
* Feb 24 - P.H. McCarthy forced to resign from San Francisco Trades Council due to his role in water and power initiative<ref>{{cite news |title=MCCARTHY OUT OF BUILDING COUNCIL |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MM19230224.2.14&srpos=397&e=------192-en--20--381-byDA-txt-txIN-pacific+gas+electric----1923---1 |access-date=20 October 2019 |issue=178 |page=1 |work=Madera Mercury |date=24 February 1923}}</ref>
* Feb - Senate Hearings Summary - 1934 12-12 - Federal Trade Commission Investigation: pg 268-273 of 1922 initiative<ref>{{cite book |title=FTC 71-A Utility corporations. Letters from the chairman of the Federal trade commission transmitting, in response to Senate resolution no. 83, 70th Congress, a monthly report on the electric power and gas utilities inquiry. |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b2937784&view=image&seq=583 |via=HathiTrust.org | series=[United States] 70th Cong., 1st sess. Senate. Doc. 92 |publisher=U.S. Printing Office |access-date=20 October 2019}}</ref>
* July 23 - Sacramento County voters form the [[Sacramento Municipal Utility District#History|Sacramento Municipal Utility District]]. 
* [https://repository.uchastings.edu/ca_ballot_props/197/ 1924 Proposition 16 Water and Power Summary and full text] 
* Sept 3 - Col. Robert Marshall comes out in favor of power and water initiative<ref>{{cite news |title=Col. Marshall Writes Argument in Favor Water and Power Act |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19240903.2.20&e=-------en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-calexico+chronical------- |access-date=21 October 2019 |volume=XXI |issue=19 |page=2 |publisher=Calexico Chronicle |date=3 September 1924}}</ref>
* Sept 6 - Arguments for and against Prop 16, the water and power act with Robert Marshall making the for statement<ref>{{cite news |title=PROPOSED WATER AND POWER ACT - AN OFFICIAL ARGUMENT AGAINST IT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MVR19240906.2.23&e=------192-en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-mill+valley+review----1923---1 |access-date=21 October 2019 |volume=XXVI |issue=28 |page=2 |publisher=Mill Valley Record |date=6 September 1924}}</ref>
* Oct 28 – Robert Marshall speaks in favor of Water and Power Act<ref>{{cite news |title=COLONEL MARSHALL COMING |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19241028.2.10&e=------192-en--20--1--txt-txIN-madera+tribune-ARTICLE---1924---1 |access-date=18 February 2020 |volume=XXXIV |issue=149 |publisher=Madera Tribune |date=28 October 1924}}</ref>
* Nov – California Municipalities League attempt at Water & Power fails again<ref>{{cite news |title=LA FOLLETTE HAS CUT LEAD OE COOLIDGE - Northern Counties of California Go to La Follette WATER POWER BILL DEFEATED Lead of Coolidge in California Over 150,000 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19241105.2.2&e=------192-en--20-MT-61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-election----1924---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=4 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=5 November 1924}}</ref>
* '''1925''' June 20 - San Francisco board of supervisors illegally sells Hetch Hetchy power to PG&E<ref>{{cite news |title=TWO MILLION POWER OFFER IS ACCEPTED San Francisco Board of Supervisors Adopt Plan DEVELOPMENT AT HETCH HETCHY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19250620.2.2&srpos=42&e=------192-en--20--41-byDA-txt-txIN-hetch+hetchy-ARTICLE---1925---1 |access-date=18 February 2020 |volume=XXXVI |issue=43 |publisher=Madera Tribune |date=20 June 1925}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Resolution |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OLSF19250606.2.25&srpos=39&e=------192-en--20--21-byDA-txt-txIN-hetch+hetchy-ARTICLE---1925---1 |access-date=18 February 2020 |issue=23 |publisher=Organized Labor |date=6 June 1925|volume = 26}}</ref>
* Note - Add link to actual propositions from hastings... 
* [https://repository.uchastings.edu/ca_ballot_props/218/ 1926 Proposition 18 Water and Power summary and full text]
* '''1926''' - California Water & Power Initiative fails for 3rd time<ref>{{cite news |title=State Propositions |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19261104.1.3&srpos=32&e=04-11-1926-08-11-1926-192-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-election+POWER+----1926---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=59 |issue=65 |page=3 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=4 November 1926}}</ref>
* '''1927''' - Cal Bulletin #18 Cal irrigation District Laws<ref>{{cite web |title=California irrigation district laws, 1927 |url=http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/cwd/id/489 |website=ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu |publisher=state of california |access-date=27 October 2019}}</ref>
* '''1929''' - $390,000 authorized to investigate state's water resources
* '''1930''' - Federal-State Water Resources Commission report proposes federal project
* '''1931''' - state water plan legislature report proposing new CVP plan<ref>{{cite web |title=Report to the legislature of 1931 on state water plan, 1930 |url=https://archive.org/details/state1931egislat25calirich/page/n5 |website=archive.org |publisher=state of california |access-date=27 October 2019}}</ref>
* Jan 30 - The Hoover-Young Commission report estimate that state water plan will cost $374 million<ref>{{cite news |title=Legislature To Convene February 24 To Enact Proposed Laws State's Water Problem |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MVR19310130.2.26&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=XXXII |issue=50 |publisher=Mill Valley Record |date=30 January 1931}}</ref>
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* '''1933''' Mar. 4 - [[First inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn in]] as president includes major public works projects
* July 8 - Bureau of Reclamation ([[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]) okays funding for Central Valley Act (CVP)<ref>{{cite news |title=Reclamation Bureau Approves State Water Plan for Federal Aid |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19330708.1.3&srpos=161&e=------193-en--20--161-byDA-txt-txIN-1933+central+valley+project+act+----1933---1 |access-date=2 October 2019 |agency=cdnc.ucr.edu |publisher=San Bernardino Sun, Volume 39 |date=8 July 1933}}</ref>
* Jul 15 - Details of CVP legislation announced with plan to cooperate with [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Federal Co-operation On State-Wide Water Conservation Is Okeh |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19330715.1.1&e=------193-en--20-SCS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-santa+cruz+sentinel----1933---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=88 |issue=12 |page=1 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=15 July 1933}}</ref>
* Jul 20 - CVP bill stalls in legislature when rules committee blocks it<ref>{{cite news |title=Federal Help for Big State Project Fails |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19330720.1.2&e=-------en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-san+bernadino+daily+sun-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |agency=Associated Press |volume=39 |page=2 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=20 July 1933}}</ref>
* Jul 22 - CVP legislation revived in state senate after federal support promised<ref>{{cite news |title=State Wide Water Project Revived in Senate |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19330722.1.1&e=------193-en--20-SCS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-santa+cruz+sentinel----1933---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=88 |issue=18 |page=1 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=22 July 1933}}</ref>
* July 27 - California Legislature votes for CVP Act assembly passing it 58-9 senate passes vote 23-15.<ref>{{cite news |title=Legislature Okehs Statewide Water Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19330727.1.1&srpos=205&e=------193-en--20--201-byDA-txt-txIN-1933+central+valley+project+act+----1933---1 |access-date=2 October 2019 |agency=cdnc.ucr.edu |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=27 July 1933}}</ref>
* Aug - PG&E funds petition drive for referendum that was run by a company lawyer named Aherne<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roos |first1=Robert De |title=The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372 |date=1948 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372/page/n43 27]}}</ref>
* Aug 5 - Governor signs $170 million CVP Act into law<ref>{{cite book |last1=U.S. Writers Program |title=The Central valley project |date=1942 |publisher=California state Dept. of education |location=Sacramento |page=[https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich/page/49 49] |url=https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich |access-date=18 February 2020}}</ref>
* Dec 15 - Local state representative urges a yes vote on CVP while large PG&E opposed is to the right of article<ref>{{cite news |title=Senator Asks People Support Huge Central Valley Water Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19331215.2.32&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXIII |issue=37 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=15 December 1933}}</ref>
* Dec 15 - SF Chamber of Commerce openly opposes CVP Act<ref>{{cite news |title=The Water Measure - S. F. Chamber of Commerce Opposes But Acknowledges Emergency |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MVR19331215.2.86&e=-------en--20-MVR-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-mill+valley+review-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=XXXV |issue=44 |page=6 |publisher=Mill Valley Record |date=15 December 1933}}</ref>
* Dec 17 - CVP special election debate pros and cons along with map of project<ref>{{cite news |title=Water Project Campaign to End Tomorrow |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=OT19331217.1.6&e=------193-en--20-OT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-oakland+tribune----1933---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=119 |issue=168 |page=6 |publisher=Oakland Tribune |date=17 December 1933}}</ref>
* Dec 19 - [https://repository.uchastings.edu/ca_ballot_props/304/ Voter Information Guide for Proposition One - CVP special election]
* Dec 19 - CVP referendum to go ahead wins 459,712 for to 426,109<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roos |first1=Robert De |title=The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372 |date=1948 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372/page/n49 33]}}</ref>
* Dec 21 - Great Water Project vote increases CVP vote status<ref>{{cite news |title=Great Water Project Majority Increasing |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19331221.1.1&e=------193-en--20-SCS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-santa+cruz+sentinel----1933---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |issue=147 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=21 December 1933|volume = 88}}</ref>
* CVP victory due to dead Catalina cow with Slovenian community vote over fisherman's felony conviction<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roos |first1=Robert De |title=The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372 |date=1948 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372/page/n50 34]-35}}</ref>
* 1933 - SF Labor Council obtains PG&E political expenditures report to state 
* 1933 - PG&E spent $275,737.18 on political and other donations according to State Railroad Commission 
* '''1934''' Nov 6 - [[Sacramento, CA]] votes to form [[Sacramento Municipal Utility District]] (SMUD) and purchase PG&E properties with  $12 million in bonds<ref name="smud v pge">{{cite web |title=Sacramento M.U. Dist. v. P.G. E. Co. Aug 11, 194220 Cal.2d 684 (Cal. 1942) |url=https://casetext.com/case/sacramento-mu-dist-v-pg-e-co |website=casetext.com |access-date=27 October 2019}}</ref>
* '''1935''' Jan 2 - PG&E files suit to try to overturn the formation of SMUD and its buyout of PG&E<ref name="smud v pge"/>
* Aug 30 - Rivers and Harbors Act authorizes $12 million funding by Army Corps of Engineers for CVP - never happens<ref>{{cite book |last1=Writers' Program |title=Central Valley Project |date=1942 |publisher=Sacramento, California state Dept. of education |page=[https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich/page/50 50] |url=https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich |access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
* Dec 2 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] takes over CVP, loans $4.2 million - new estimate increases to $228 million source 1942 CVP Writers Project<ref name="archive51">{{cite book |last1=California Writers Program |title=Central Valley Project |date=1942 |publisher=California state Dept. of education |location=Sacramento |page=[https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich/page/51 51] |url=https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich |access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
Dec 2 - USBR regulations stipulate that water only be given out to farmers with 160 acres of land or less - see 4-7-1944 
* '''1936''' June 22 - Sacramento and San Joaquin Flood Control Studies okayed by Rivers and Harbors Act [https://uslaw.link/citation/us-law/public/74/738 1936]
* Sept 12 - Ceremonies at Kennett for [[Shasta Dam]]
* Oct 19 - [[Contra Costa Canal]] Work begins
* Oct 22 - Governor hears $477 million CVP plan<ref>{{cite news |title=Program of Central Valleys And Coast Basins Are Heard |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19371022.2.12&srpos=9&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=LXX |issue=147 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=22 October 1937}}</ref>
* '''1938''' Mar 2 - State water authority commissioner opposed to agreement between PG&E and SMUD<ref>{{cite news |title=IS HELD THREAT TO WATER PLANS State Engineer Hyatt Is Against Sacramento |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19380302.2.11&srpos=10&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=LXXI |issue=100 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 March 1938}}</ref>
* Jul 6 - contract $35.9 million for Shasta reservoir given<ref name="archive51"/>
* Sept 8 - Shasta Construction work starts<ref>{{cite book |last1=California Writers Program |title=Central Valley Project |date=1942 |publisher=California state Dept. of education |location=Sacramento |page=[https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich/page/83 83] |url=https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich |access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
* '''1939''' - Fortune Magazine Map of PG&E territory<ref>{{cite web |title=The Land of PG&E |url=https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/f/fortune/aac/0cv51.jpg |website=Fulltable.com |publisher=Fortune magazine |access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref>
* Nov 5 - Construction of $8.7 million [[Friant Dam]] begins<ref>{{cite news |title=Ickes Calls Dams Our Maginot Line - Speaking at Friant Project, He Praises Roosevelt Policy |agency=Associated Press |work=New York Times |date=6 November 1939}}</ref>
* Nov 27 - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. proposes to buy and distribute all of Shasta Dam power<ref name="autogenerated1940">{{cite news |last1=Jimerson |first1=R.W. |title=Lines Forming in State Bond Fight |publisher=San Francisco Examiner |date=7 January 1940}}</ref>
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* '''1940''' - [https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/310/16.html US v. San Francisco] Interior Sec. Ickes wins case to force San Francisco via the [[Raker Act]] to stop its sale of [[Hetch Hetchy]] water to PG&E
* Jan 7 - California legislature blocks Governor Olson proposal to unfreeze $170 CVP Bonds<ref name="autogenerated1940"/> 
* Jan 19 - Central Valley association spokesperson opposed to $50 million CVP bonds is actually a PG&E lobbyist<ref>{{cite news |title=RENEW FIGHT POWER ISSUE Plan -Hearing Monday On Proposed Laws Aid Revenue Bond Plans |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400119.2.15&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXV |issue=65 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=19 January 1940}}</ref>
* Jan 22 - Interior Sec. [[Harold L. Ickes|Ickes]] advises state to set up Public utility market for Shasta at half PG&E prices<ref>{{cite news |title=Ickes Sets Terms On Shasta Power - Advises California to Create Utility Districts For Resale of Federal Dam's Power |work=New York Times |date=22 January 1940}}</ref>
* Jan 24 - The Water Project Authority of California votes to delay Olson $50 million bond proposal until new study is done<ref>{{cite news |title=STUDY OF POWER PROBLEMS PLAN Delay Olson Proposal Until Report Secured |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400124.2.7&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXV |issue=69 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=24 January 1940}}</ref>
* Jan 27 - Governor Olson opens legislative session with request for CVP Power bonds<ref>{{cite news |title=OLSON WILL ASK POWER BONDS LONG BITTER FIGHT LOOMS OVER ISSUES |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400127.2.25&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXV |issue=72 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=27 January 1940}}</ref>
* Jan 30 - Madera Irrigation District calls for vote about governor Olson's $50 million CVP bond proposal<ref>{{cite news |title=Madera Irrigation District Wants People to Have Vot |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400130.2.69&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXV |issue=74 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 January 1940}}</ref>
* Feb 14 - Governor Olson and CVP senate supporters fail to get $50 million funding out of committee<ref>{{cite news |title=CENTRAL VALLEY PLAN BACKERS AGAIN DEFEATED Senate Tables Motion; Two Tax Measures Fall by Wayside |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19400214.2.18&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=12 |issue=295 |page=1 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=14 February 1940}}</ref>
* Feb 28 — State Water Project Authority creates four new jobs along with survey money from legislature allotment<ref>{{cite news |title=POWER PROJECT IS STILL HOPED Data Is Sought From Washington as Steps Taken Expand Works |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400228.2.10&e=-------en--50-MT-1--txt-txIN-railroad+commission+-------1 |access-date=28 January 2020 |volume=LXXV |issue=98 |work=Madera Tribune |date=28 February 1940}}</ref> 
* Mar 12 - U.S. Senate approves $5 million for CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=Senate Approves Funds for West |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19400312.2.100&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=13 |issue=6 |page=6 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=12 March 1940}}</ref>
* May 3 - Federal request for $191 million, including over $25 million to California for flood control following wet winter<ref>{{cite news |title=FLOOD CONTROL BILL PROPOSED Large Amount Sought For California Work |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400503.2.8&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXVI |issue=3 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=3 May 1940}}</ref>
* July 8 - First concrete poured at Shasta Dam<ref>{{cite book |last1=California Writers Program |title=Central Valley Project |date=1942 |publisher=California state Dept. of education |location=Sacramento |page=[https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich/page/92 92] |url=https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich |access-date=28 January 2020}}</ref>
* Jul 22 - Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers diverted as work on CVP dams get underway<ref>{{cite news |title=GETTING ROUGH, THROW RIVERS OUT OF BED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19400722.2.31&e=-------en--20--1-byDA-txt-txIN-healdsberg+tribune-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=LXXV |issue=84 |page=2 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune |date=22 July 1940}}</ref>
* Aug 20 - CVP Contra Costa canal delivers first water to city of Pittsburg<ref>{{cite news |title=PITTSBURG HAS FIRST WATER VALLEY PLAN Delivered From Partly Completed Contra Costa Canal System Sunday |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400820.2.82&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXVI |issue=77 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=20 August 1940}}</ref>
* Sep 25 - CVP will irrigate 3 million acres and allow for increased Central Valley population<ref>{{cite news |title=SAN JOAQUIN CAN SUPPORT MORE PEOPLE Great Central Valley Able to Hold Increased Population With Water |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19400925.2.58&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXVI |issue=107 |page=5 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 September 1940}}</ref>
* Oct 5 - Madera Tribune posts photo of [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]'s Friant Dam construction<ref>{{cite news |title=Concrete Picture-Facts About Giant Friant Dam |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19401005.2.9&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXVI |issue=116 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=5 October 1940}}</ref>
* Oct 19 - President Roosevelt signs rivers and harbors authorization bill (HR9972)with funds for CVP but includes limitation<ref>{{cite news |title=California Water Project Aided |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19401019.2.47&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=13 |issue=196 |page=3 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=19 October 1940}}</ref>
* Nov 27 - Governor Olson goes to Washington to propose federal takeover of CVP due to state funding opposition<ref>{{cite news |title=Still Seeking Control Plan Olson Is Hoping to Defeat Legislature |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19401127.2.51&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=23 October 2019 |volume=LXXVI |issue=159 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=27 November 1940}}</ref>
* Dec 6 - Another CVP dam proposed south of Shasta dam near Iron Mountain<ref>{{cite news |title=ANOTHER DAM IS URGED FOR VALLEYPLAN Declared Necessary to Protect Sacramento Valley's Irrigation |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19401206.2.25&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=5 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=6 December 1940}}</ref>
* Dec 19 - Governor Olson obtains support for his CVP plan after meeting with president Roosevelt<ref>{{cite news |title=Olson Claims Roosevelt Aid Central Valley May Become Another TVA |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19401219.2.10&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=16 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=19 December 1940}}</ref>
* Dec 21 - State water commission requests a federal delay on PG&E's request for hyro work near Shasta dam<ref>{{cite news |title=WOULD BLOCK POWERPROJECT Effort to Delay PGE To Assist Shasta Dam And Power Plant |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19401221.2.15&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=18 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=21 December 1940}}</ref>
* '''1941''' Jan 8 - state senate proposal to expand the size of the CVP project to include Sacramento Valley<ref>{{cite news |title=SACRAMENTO TO SEEK MORE AID Central Valley Plan Irrigation And Ship Travel to Be Sought |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410108.2.4&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=31 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=8 January 1941}}</ref>
* Jan 20 - Congressional oversight of $446 million CVP project based on [[Tennessee Valley Authority|TVA]] model is ready<ref>{{cite news |title=Bill Is Ready If TVA Needed If Legislation Needed It Will Be Ready |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410120.2.9&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=41 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=20 January 1941}}</ref> 
* Feb 14 - CVP contracts have helped companies in 40 different U.S. states<ref>{{cite news |title=VALLEY PROJECT AIDED 40 STATES Bureau of Reclamation Reports on Building |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410214.2.11&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=63 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=14 February 1941}}</ref>
* Feb 21 - $50 million CVP federal funding in exchange for PG&E Feather River power<ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Project Rush Requested |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19410221.2.25&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=13 |issue=303 |page=1 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=21 February 1941}}</ref>
* Mar 20 - The state water authority budgets $200,000 for CVP work, including cooperative federal projects<ref>{{cite news |title=VALLEY PLAN BUDGET UPHELD Proposed Slash Voted Down by Authority And Measures Are Approved |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410320.2.5&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=91 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=20 March 1941}}</ref>
* Apr 17 - Interior Secretary Ickes prepares legislation for federal oversight of the CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=ICKES CONTINUES TO FORCE VIEWS Single Administrator Central Valley Asked |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410417.2.36&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=115 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=17 April 1941}}</ref>
* Apr 30 - Congress approves a $34.7 million budget for CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=34 MILLIONS FOR CENTRAL VALLEY Approval Is Given For West Projects |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410430.2.18&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=126 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 April 1941}}</ref>
* May 22 - State legislature agrees to include funding for CVP electricity<ref>{{cite news |title=VALLEY PROJECT AGAIN RESCUED Olson's Budget Sent To Senate Floor With Reductions of Million |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410522.2.6&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVII |issue=145 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=22 May 1941}}</ref>
* Jul 28 - The CVP project is made a national defense priority with sped up on [[Keswick Dam]] contracts to start in August<ref>{{cite news |title=VALLEY PROJECT TO BE SPEEDED Will Become Part Of National Defense Steps, Declares Director |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410728.2.14&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVIII |issue=47 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=28 July 1941}}</ref>
* July 30 - [https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/77th-congress/session-1/c77s1ch334.pdf Central Valley Indian Lands Acquisition Act] promised to pay for all Wintu lands covered by Shasta dam
* Jul 31 - FDR signs CVP legislation that takes tribal lands that will be submerged by Shasta and Friant dams<ref>{{cite news |title=Central Valley Rights Are Provided By Law |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410731.2.20&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVIII |issue=50 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=31 July 1941}}</ref>
* Aug 12 - First major contract for the $12.5 million Keswick dam awarded<ref>{{cite news |title=Start Program For Greater Valley Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19410812.2.21&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVIII |issue=60 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=12 August 1941}}</ref>
* Sep 17 - CVP statistical report says 1.7 million acre feet of water being diverted from Sacramento River<ref>{{cite news |title=Central Valley Water Supply Value Shown by Statistics |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19410917.2.182&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=14 |issue=168 |page=14 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=17 September 1941}}</ref>
* Oct 22 - $319,802 contract for 6 miles of [[Contra Costa Canal]] awarded<ref>{{cite news |title=Canal Section Contract Awarded |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19411022.2.28&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=14 |issue=198 |page=2 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=22 October 1941}}</ref>
* Dec 30 - Regional director of the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]], Charles E. is Carey selected by Ickes to develop market search for CVP power customers<ref>{{cite news |title=Central Valley Power Marketing Program |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19411230.2.36&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVIII |issue=25 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 December 1941}}</ref>
* '''1942''' Jan 8 - CVP Shasta and Friant are the 2nd and 4th world's largest dams and rapidly being completed for the war<ref>{{cite news |title=VALLEY PLAN AID FOR WAR World's Greatest Dams Are Near to Completion Is Report by Page |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19420108.2.14&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVIII |issue=32 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=8 January 1942}}</ref>
* Feb 26 - CVP's chief engineer gives detailed status report on CVP to Madera citizens<ref>{{cite news |title=WALKER R. YOUNG ADDRESSES MADERA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE \H_ANNUAL BANQUET Large Gathering Fills Madera High Gymnasium To Near Capacity; Guests From Many Cities Are Present to Hear Reclamation Bureau Engineer |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19420226.2.54&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LXXVIII |issue=73 |page=5 |work=Madera Tribune |date=26 February 1942}}</ref>
* Mar 20 - [[Pacific Gas and Electric Company|PG&E]] offers to buy all CVP power during House Appropriation Committee hearings<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitaker |first1=Clem |title=The Political Parade |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LHS19420320.2.45&e=-------en--20-LHS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-la+habra+star-------1 |access-date=19 February 2020 |volume=XXVI |issue=36 |publisher=La Habra Star |date=20 March 1942}}</ref>
* Mar 25 - House committee deletes $15 million for transmission lines and CVP steam plant<ref>{{cite news |title=Central Valley Plan Threatened Says Clark |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19420325.2.59&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=L |issue=21 |page=5 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 March 1942}}</ref>
* Mar 26 - Rep. [[Jerry Voorhis|Voorhis]] exposes prominent reason PG&E is behind blocking CVP power lines as Sacramento wants to break away from PG&E and buy power at a cheaper rate<ref name=":1">{{cite book |title=Congressional Record - House |date=26 March 1942 |publisher=U.S. Printing Office |location=Washington D.C. |page=3023}}</ref>
* Mar 26 - PG&E gets permission from Federal Power Commission to build steam plant to block [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]'s Antioch facility<ref name=":1"/>
* Aug 20 - The Madera Tribune congratulates [[Bertrand W. Gearhart]] on his role in promoting the CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=GEARHART GETS COMMENDATION ONVALLEYPLAN Large Appropriation Is llesult of Effort Of Congressman |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19420820.2.94&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=L |issue=146 |page=11 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 March 1942}}</ref>
* Nov 13 - Shasta dam nearly ready - construction work photo<ref>{{cite news |title=Shasta Project Nearly Complete |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19421113.2.4&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=L |issue=217 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 November 1942}}</ref> 
* Nov 21 - Major segments of the CVP project halted by the [[War Production Board]] including transmission lines and Friant Dam<ref>{{cite news |title=WORK AT FRIANT TOTALLY HALTED IN WPB ORDERS Limited Progress to Be Permitted Central Valley Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19421121.2.46&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=L |issue=224 |page=4 |work=Madera Tribune |date=21 November 1942}}</ref> PG&E allowed to take over CVP power at Shasta
* Nov 27 - state railroad commission sets price of PG&E electric property in Sacramento at $11.6 million<ref>{{cite news |title=Sacrament Electric System Fixed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19421127.1.15&srpos=13&e=------194-en--20--1--txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=49 |page=15 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=27 November 1942}}</ref>
* Dec 22 - Ag Association spokesperson threatens city over city's push to buy power from CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=Metropolitan Areas Are Warned Against Municipal Power Plan |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19421222.2.113&srpos=11&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=L |issue=249 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=22 December 1942}}</ref>
* '''1943''' Jun 9 - $30.9 million funds sought for CVP as war power needs expanding<ref>{{cite news |title=More Funds Sought for Central Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19430609.2.170&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=16 |issue=82 |page=14 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=9 June 1943}}</ref>
* Jun 19 - War Powers Board okays CVP [[Friant-Kern Canal]] funding<ref>{{cite news |title=Friant-Kern Canal Work Approved |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19430619.2.57&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=16 |issue=91 |page=3 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=19 June 1943}}</ref>
* Jul 20 - CVP Shasta to Oroville power line bids opened<ref>{{cite news |title=Shasta Power Line Bid Call Slated |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19430720.2.27&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=16 |issue=117 |page=2 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=20 July 1943}}</ref>
* Sep 2 - Interior Secretary Ickes' order to build CVP transmission line attacked by Rep. Carter who represents Tulare county but lives in Oakland<ref>{{cite news |title=Ickes Power Project Rapped by Congressman |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19430902.2.55&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LI |issue=157 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 September 1943}}</ref>
* Sep 8 - San Francisco sends resolution to War Production Board calling for urgent completion of [[Friant-Kern Canal]]<ref>{{cite news |title=San Francisco Backs Kern Canal |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19430928.2.67&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LI |issue=178 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=28 September 1943}}</ref>
* Sep 24 - CVP coordinator announces operational schedules including Friant dam diversion to start in 1944<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER PROJECT SCHEDULED TO OPERATE 1944 Friant Diversion Will Not Affect Program For South Part Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19430924.2.27&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LI |issue=175 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=24 September 1943}}</ref>
* Sept 28 - Ickes announces PG&E contract to buy all Shasta dam power agreed to<ref>{{cite news |title=PG&E WILL BUY POWER DEVELOPED AT SHASTA Contract Between Company And Power Concern Is Announced by Secretary of Interior Ickes For Distribution Which Will Replace Steam Plants |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19430928.2.34&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LI |issue=178 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=28 September 1943}}</ref>
* Dec 29 - War Production Board refuses to fund the CVP's [[Friant-Kern Canal]]<ref>{{cite news |title=THUMBS DOWN ON KERN CANAL |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19431229.2.15&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LI |issue=254 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=29 December 1943}}</ref>
* '''1944''' Jan 14 - 90 year dream - Shasta reservoir is filling up<ref>{{cite news |title=SHASTA DAM IS PILING UP WATERS OF NORTH RIVERS |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440114.2.17&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LI |issue=266 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=14 January 1944}}</ref>
* Apr 7 - CVP coordinator will follow federal law and block big farms from obtaining CVP water<ref>{{cite news |title=Carey Would Block Water Valley Project Big Farms |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440407.2.5&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=33 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=7 April 1944}}</ref>
* Apr 14 - Madera Tribune calls Interior Secretary Ickes "Little Harold" over CVP following federal water use rules<ref>{{cite news |title=LITTLE HAROLD RAPS CHANGES VALLEY PLANS |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440414.2.37&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=39 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=14 April 1944}}</ref>
* May 2 - Madera Tribune attacks "[[Okie|Oakies]]" and Interior Secretary "Little Harold" Ickes as a [[Czar (political term)|Czarist]] for retaining 160 acre water limit<ref>{{cite news |title=UNDERSTANDING OF FARM SIZE GREATEST NEED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440502.2.27&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=54 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 May 1944}}</ref>
* May 12 - President Roosevelt supports 40 year old 160 acre federal rule that CVP water will only go to small farmers<ref>{{cite news |title=FDR Supports 160 Acre Ban |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440512.2.8&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=63 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=12 May 1944}}</ref>
* Jun 8 - State Senate committee wants 160 acre limit lifted<ref>{{cite news |title=DEMAND LIFT 160 ACRE BAN BIG PROJECT Most Central Valley Lands Already Under Development Is Claim |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440608.2.2&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=85 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=8 June 1944}}</ref>
* June 26 - Shasta dam starts producing Power from two generators<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roos |first1=Robert De |title=The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372 |date=1948 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372/page/n121 105]}}</ref>
* Jul 20 - Quarter page PG&E Ad promotes its takeover of CVP power<ref>{{cite news |title=In cooperation with Central Valley Project POWER FROM SHASTA DAM FLOWS OVER P.G. and E. LINES TO HOMES, FARMS and FACTORIES |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MVR19440720.2.48.1&e=-------en--20-MVR-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-mill+valley+review-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=XLVI |issue=29 |page=3 |publisher=Mill Valley Record |date=20 July 1944}}</ref>
* Jul 24 - Hearings begin on the federal 160 acre water limit campaign by wealthy farmers<ref>{{cite news |title=160 ACRE BAN HEARING OPENS |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440724.2.10&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=122 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=24 July 1944}}</ref>
* Jul 25 - PG&E starts taking Shasta dam power for resale<ref>{{cite news |title=FINAL STEP IN DELIVERY SHASTA POWER |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440725.2.67&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=123 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 July 1944}}</ref>
* July 26 - Sacramento phase of hearings end. Federal laws will not be broken say federal authorities - for wealthy interests<ref>{{cite news |title=HEARINGS ON 160 ACRE BAN VALLEY PROJECT ENDS TODAY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19440726.2.13&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=25 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=124 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=26 July 1944}}</ref>
* Jul 30 - Week long CVP hearings in Bakersfield held by Senate subcommittee on irrigation - 160 acre water limit attacked<ref>{{cite news |last1=Davies |first1=Lawrence |title=Coast irrigation Hit from w Angles - Central Valley Project called Both Socialistic and Corporate Plot |work=New York Times |date=30 July 1944}}</ref>
* Oct 11 - War Production Board reverses itself and delays work on [[Friant-Kern Canal]]<ref>{{cite news |title=CLAIM KERN CANAL DELAYED BY WPB |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19441011.2.17&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=LII |issue=191 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=11 October 1944}}</ref>
* Elliot Amendment to the Harbors and Rivers Act attempts to remove 160 acre water limit of the 1902 Reclamation Act fails<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roos |first1=Robert De |title=The Thirsty Land: The Story of the Central Valley Project |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372 |date=1948 |publisher=Stanford University Press |location=Stanford |page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.509372/page/n110 94]}}</ref>
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* '''1945''' Jan 2 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] proposes spending $600 million for CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=$600,000,000 Calif. Flood, Power Projects Proposed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19450102.2.86&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=259 |page=5 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=2 January 1945}}</ref>
* Mar 22 - Rural congressional representatives want more control over CVP but don't want to pay for the system<ref>{{cite news |title=Congressmen Opposed Central Valley Buying |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19450322.2.13&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=1 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=22 March 1945}}</ref>
* Apr 12 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] proposes spending $836 million on CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=Reclamation Dept, to Spend 836 Million in California |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19450412.2.29&e=-------en--20-SPNP-1-byDA-txt-txIN-san+pedro+news+pilot-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=18 |issue=33 |page=2 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=12 April 1945}}</ref>
* Jun 4 - The state Chamber of Commerce promotes the takeover of the Central valley project when completed<ref>{{cite news |title=State, Control Sought For Central Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19450604.2.83&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=81 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=4 June 1945}}</ref>
* Jun 8 - Chairman of the Central Valley Project Congress advocates cheap power development for San Joaquin Vallery farmers<ref>{{cite news |title=CHEAP POWER FOR VALLEY IS URGED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19450608.2.15&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=85 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=8 June 1945}}</ref>
* Jul 18 - state water authority funded to evaluate possibility of purchasing the $340 million CVProject<ref>{{cite news |title=CENTRAL VALLEY ASKS COMPLETION |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19450718.2.14&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=118 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=18 July 1945}}</ref>
* Sep 6 - New 300 page CVP report calls for dramatic $527 million increase to project for total of $735 million (map)<ref>{{cite news |title=Huge Construction Project To Develop Power Is Urged |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19450906.2.28&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=160 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=6 September 1945}}</ref>
* Sep 27 - The wartime ban on construction will end in October with $15 million available to start on [[Friant Dam]]<ref>{{cite news |title=FRIANT PROJECT WORK TO START |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19450927.2.46&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=178 |page=4 |work=Madera Tribune |date=27 September 1945}}</ref>
* Oct 30 - Attack on federal limits to CVP water for farms less than 160 acres is actually 320 leaving out only giant operations<ref>{{cite news |title=Boke Eases Acre Limits CVP Water |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19451030.2.17&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=204 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 October 1945}}</ref>
* Nov 24 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] introduces CVP plan to Congress with 38 proposed dams<ref>{{cite news |title=Federal Plan for Central Valley - Water Power Projects Listed by Ickes |agency=Associated Press |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=24 November 1945}}</ref>
* Nov 26 - CVP funding ends up in hostile subcommittee that cuts all transmission and power funding<ref name=":0">{{cite news |title=CVP Power Transmission Fund Killed by Committee |agency=United Press |publisher=San Francisco News |date=26 November 1945}}</ref>
* Nov 27 - U.S. House appropriations committee cuts budge for transmission lines for CVP<ref name=":0"/>
* Nov 28 - SF Chronicle fails to mention $5 million cut on transmission line budget, only mentions $780,000 left<ref>{{cite news |title=$780,000 For Central Valley Power Lines Recommended |agency=Associated Press |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=28 November 1945}}</ref>
* Nov 29 - Chamber of Commerce hears claim that federal control over the CVP is totalitarian<ref>{{cite news |title=NATION DRIFTS TOWARD GOAL REGIMENTATION |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19451129.2.27&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=228 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=29 November 1945}}</ref>
* Nov 30 - SF Chronicle promotes Mendota 42,000 acre family farmer's opinion that employs 400 regular and 1,000 Mexican migratory workers<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roos |first1=Robert De |title=Central Valley Project - West Side San Joaquin Areas need Water for Greater Crop Diversity |page=10 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |date=30 November 1945}}</ref>
* Dec 7 - Two day statewide water conference begins with fighting over 160 acre ban<ref>{{cite news |title=AS OVERALL WATER PLAN 2 DAYS MEET Wide Disagreement On Methods Control For Various Phases |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19451207.2.4&e=------194-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-Central+Valley+Project+conference----1945---1 |access-date=29 October 2019 |volume=LIII |issue=235 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=7 December 1945}}</ref>
* Dec 8 - The first statewide water conference in 18 years is moderated by Governor Warren - the war of big vs. small farmers<ref>{{cite news |title='Grass Roots' Water Meet Ends |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19451208.2.66&srpos=16&e=------194-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-Central+Valley+Project+conference----1945---1 |access-date=29 October 2019 |volume=18 |issue=239 |page=3 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=8 December 1945}}</ref>
* Dec 26 - Madera Tribune's attempt to be neutral about the 160 acre fight<ref>{{cite news |title=MADERA DISTRICT VIEW ON CONFERENCE POINTS 160-Acre Limitation Would Have Direct Bearing On Income of District |access-date=29 October 2019 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19451226.2.24&srpos=4&e=------194-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-Central+Valley+Project+conference----1945---1 |volume=LIII |issue=250 |work=Madera Tribune |date=26 December 1945}}</ref>
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* '''1946''' Apr 5 - small town newspaper uses front group to call Dept. of Public Works communistic for funding CVP project<ref>{{cite news |title=Communistic Besmirch All Contacted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19460405.2.65&e=-------en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-healdsburg+tribune+enterprise-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=LXXXI |issue=27 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=5 April 1946}}</ref>
* Apr 9 - 96,000 acre feet of Friant dam water released in March 1946 for irrigation of valley<ref>{{cite news |title=Friant Water Given Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19460409.2.68&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=34 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=9 April 1946}}</ref>
* May 3 - President Truman announces plan to expand scope of CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=TRUMAN HAS PLAN EXPAND CVP GROWTH Plan For Two Control Valleys Will Be Told Slate in Near Future |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19460503.2.16&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=55 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=3 May 1946}}</ref>
* Jun 18 - CVP obtains $20 million funding for most of its projects<ref>{{cite news |title=REINSTATE FUNDS FOR CVP PROGRAM |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19460618.2.22&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=93 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=18 June 1946}}</ref>
* Jun 22 - Sacramento Municipal Utility District $10.5 million in bonds to purchase PG&E vote agreed to<ref>{{cite news |title=Sacramento to Buy Utility System |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19460622.2.46&srpos=1&e=------194-en--20--1--txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=19 |issue=98 |page=2 |publisher=San Pedro News Pilot |date=22 June 1946}}</ref>
* Jun 26 - U.S. Senate funding for CVP reduced from $225 million to $12.5 million<ref>{{cite news |title=MODIFIED CVP BILL GIVEN TO TRUMAN |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19460628&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=100 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=26 June 1946}}</ref>
* Sep 24 - PG&E announces $160 million budget to expand power output<ref>{{cite news |title=PG&E PLANNING FOR GREATER POWER OUTPUT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19460924.2.64&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=175 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=24 September 1946}}</ref>
* Nov 30 - Interior Sec. Krug says need for water and power from CVP being held up by "one or two large corporations"<ref>{{cite news |title=Krug Attacks Foes of Coast Power Plan |work=New York Times |date=5 November 1946}}</ref>
* '''1947''' Jan 6 - Republican control of state legislature results in funding for only a CVP study<ref>{{cite news |title=Tasks Face Legislature BIG PROGRAM WILL INCLUDE WATER STUDY Opening Warren Talk May Be Delayed by Speakership Battle |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470106.2.3&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=260 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=6 January 1947}}</ref>
* Jan 6 - Democrats push investigation of monopolist takeover of CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=Corporate Hand In CVP Voiced |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470106.2.4&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=260 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=6 January 1947}}</ref>
* Feb 14 - President Truman requests $30 million including $5 million for CVP transmission lines for the next fiscal year<ref>{{cite news |title=MADERA CANAL FUND BUDGETED Canal Systems to Get Half of 30 Millions Asked in Truman Plan |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470214.2.18&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |volume=LIV |issue=294 |publisher=Madera Tribune |date=14 February 1947}}</ref>
* Feb 19 - If the 160 acre law is banned 20 giant Central Valley companies will get water monopoly<ref>{{cite news |title=ROOSEVELT FOR 160-ACRE BAN m CHARGES 20 LANDOWNERS TO GET GAINS Madera, Tulare And Kern County Lands In Monopoly Is Claim |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470219.2.28&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=298 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=19 February 1947}}</ref>
* Feb 20 - Small farmers and labor oppose repeal of CVP 160 acre water limit<ref>{{cite news |title=Labor And Farmers Opposed to Repeal 160-Acres CVP Ban |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470220.2.16&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=299 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=20 February 1947}}</ref>
* Feb 27 - 61% of $384 million CVP costs will be paid by electric sales<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP COST TOLD Prices of CVP Water To Farmer Announced By Boke in Statement |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470227.2.24&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LIV |issue=304 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=27 February 1947}}</ref>
* Mar 17 - Senator introduces bill to exempt CVP from [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]'s 160 acre ban<ref>{{cite news |title=BILL EXEMPTS CVP ACRE BAN |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470317.2.17&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=14 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=17 March 1947}}</ref>
* Jun 3 - Sixteen day 160 acre ban hearing by Senate ends, no action taken<ref>{{cite news |title=FATE OF 160-ACRE BAN WAITS Senator Downey Raps Reclamation Bureau On Stand And Data |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470603.2.15&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=79 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=3 June 1947}}</ref>
* Jul 28 - $29 million CVP budget split between [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Army Corps]] and [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|U.S.B.R.]] with $1.5 million for transmission lines<ref>{{cite news |title=LARGEST FUND GOES TO CVP |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470728.2.27&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=124 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=28 July 1947}}</ref>
* Sep 18 - CVP project funding and speed to increased with hope to complete entire project by 1950<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP PROJECT TO BE SPEEDED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19470918.2.7&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |publisher=Medera Tribune |date=18 September 1947}}</ref>
* Dec 3 - Governor Warren seeks emergency CVP funding<ref>{{cite news |title=WARREN TO ASK CVP FUNDS AID |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19471203.2.11&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=231 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=3 December 1947}}</ref> 
* Dec 23 - $11.4 million emergency funds for CVP project granted as senator tries to get CVP head fired over 160 acre ban<ref>{{cite news |title=DOWNEY FOR STRAUS OUST ON ACRE BAN Work to Be Resumed On Central Valley Project But Limited |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19471223.2.3&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=248 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=23 December 1947}}</ref>
* '''1948''' Jan 12 - President Truman submits a $42 Million CVP budget for next year<ref>{{cite news |title=42 MILLIONS FOR CVP HAS PART BUDGET Seven of Californias Water Projects Given Truman Endorsement |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480112.2.3&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=263 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=12 January 1948}}</ref>
* Jan 15 - Proposal to expand CVP to [[American River]]<ref>{{cite news |title=DEVELOPMENTS CVP OPERATION |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480115.2.12&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=266 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=15 January 1948}}</ref> 
* Jan 22 - San Joaquin Valley farmers sign 19 contracts for 320,000 acre feet of water<ref>{{cite news |title=FARMERS SIGN FOR CVP WATER |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480122.2.5&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=262 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=22 January 1948}}</ref>
* Feb 25 - with another drought, the Stale Water Project authority requests $55.6 million for CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=HUGE FUND FOR CVP IS SOUGHT |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480225.2.8&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LV |issue=290 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 February 1948}}</ref>
* Mar 5 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] will seek Truman veto if California republican try to overthrow 160 acre ban<ref>{{cite news |title=160-ACRE CVP B!LL DOOMED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480305.2.8&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LVI |issue=5 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=5 March 1948}}</ref> 
* Mar 18 - two farm groups on opposite of the 160 acre debate<ref>{{cite news |title=Grange and Bureau Debated 160 Limit |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480318.2.17&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LVI |issue=16 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=18 March 1948}}</ref>
* Jun 5 - Governor Warren supports CVP transmission system - see confusion headline<ref>{{cite news |title=WARREN AND BLACK ARGUE ON CVP LINES Proposed Reclamation Transmission Program Charged as Wasteful |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480605.2.15&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LVI |issue=83 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=5 June 1948}}</ref>
* Jul 6 - CVP budget for 1948-49 year set at $68.5 million<ref>{{cite news |title=Federal Aid Given Central Valley Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480706.2.12&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=LVI |issue=108 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=6 July 1948}}</ref>
* Jul 19 - New CVP work to include expansion of Shasta dam power [[Klamath River]] and Santa Barbara projects<ref>{{cite news |title=Central Valley Work for Year Is Outlined |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19480719.2.52&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |work=Madera Tribune |date=19 July 1948}}</ref>
* Aug 6 - $50 million fund sought to buy up large farms and resell them to small farmers<ref>{{cite news |title=Ask Federal Aid In Purchase Of Small Farm Units Revolving Fund of $50,000,000 Sought |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19480806.2.50&e=-------en--20-DS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-palm+springs+desert+sun-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=XXI |issue=107 |page=5 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=6 August 1948}}</ref>
* Oct 7 - Chamber of Commerce threatens legal fights over CVP's reclamation laws<ref>{{cite news |title=FARM LOANS HALTED Chamber of Commerce Opens Water Law Fight |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19481007.2.7&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=16 |issue=65 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=7 October 1948}}</ref>
* Oct 13 - Interior Secretary Krug warns farmers that California electric companies are blocking CVP project<ref>{{cite news |title=Krug Asserts Farmers Must Fight for CVP |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19481013.2.65&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=16 |issue=69 |page=4 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 October 1948}}</ref>
* Nov 30 - State Water Project Authority urges 160 acre law removal<ref>{{cite news |title=Reclamation Law Revision Urged |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19481130.2.21&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=16 |issue=102 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 November 1948}}</ref>
* '''1949''' - Map of Central Valley Cotton producers<ref>{{cite web |title=Western Land of Cotton |url=https://www.fulltable.com/VTS/f/fortune/AAQ/singles/30.jpeg |website=Fulltable.com |publisher=Fortune Magazine |access-date=1 November 2019}}</ref>
* Mar 30 - Major Congressional victory as subcommittee okays transmission lines as part of CVP $53.5 million budget<ref>{{cite news |title=$53,500,000 Central Valley Funds Assured |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490330.2.57&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=16 |issue=196 |page=4 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 March 1949}}</ref>
* Jul 2 - Cal. Assembly funds study to buy CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=Study of State Purchase of CVP Gets Approval |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490702.2.13&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=2 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 July 1949}}</ref>
* Jul 9 - 15,000 attend Governor Warren's release of Friant dam water into San Joaquin valley<ref>{{cite news |title=MORE FRUITFUL EMPIRE SEEN Friant Dam Unleashes Tons of Water into Lower San Joaquin Valley Area |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490709.2.11&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=6 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=9 July 1949}}</ref>
* Jul 11 - Media says 100 years in the making as 20,000 people attend opening of $58 million [[Friant-Kern Canal]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Big Friant-Kern Canal Into The Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490711.2.51&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=6 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=11 July 1949}}</ref>
* Jul 13 - US Senate boosts CVP annual funding to $60.8 million<ref>{{cite news |title=Boost in CVP Funds Is Voted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490713.2.25&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=8 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 July 1949}}</ref> 
* Jul 21 - Senator Downey (R-CA) demands investigation of [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] and it continued 160 acre ban<ref>{{cite news |title=POLITICAL PRESSURE HIT Straus Flayed By Downey at Quiz |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490721.2.11&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=15 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=21 July 1949}}</ref>
* Aug 2 - Congress tentatively agrees to fund two more CVP canals for $20–40 million<ref>{{cite news |title=New Canals Get House Approval |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490802.2.74&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=25 |page=5 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 August 1949}}</ref>
* Aug 25 - Madera Tribune writes highly manipulative article suggesting Public Power advocates had increased funding yet story details how Senator Knowland (R-Ca) amendment stripped transmission funding<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP Project Funds Voted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490825.2.88&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1|access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=45 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 August 1949}}</ref>
* Aug 30 - President Truman proposes $1 billion CVP expansion for 38 dams and 25 power facilities<ref>{{cite news |title=Billion-Dollar Central Valley Plan Given Congress by Truman President Aims To Solve Water Project Disputes |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490830.2.17&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=49 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 August 1949}}</ref>
* Sep 27 - Friant dam is fourth largest dam in world - details of history and construction<ref>{{cite news |title=PLAYS VITAL ROLE IN VALLEY Friant Dam is Fourth Largest |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490927.2.321&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=72 |page=50 |work=Madera Tribune |date=27 September 1949}}</ref>
* Sep 27 - U.S. Senate okays CVP addition of $110 million for American River development<ref>{{cite news |title=American River Project Voted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19490927.2.11&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=72 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=27 September 1949}}</ref>
* Nov 14 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] plans to begin moving water from Sacramento Valley into the San Joaquinn Valley in 1951<ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Will Get Water by 1951, Straus Declares |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19491114.2.2&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=113 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=14 November 1949}}</ref>
* Dec 2 - CVP deal contract with Madera Irrigation District almost settled<ref>{{cite news |title=MID Nears Final Agreement With Bureau on Water Pact Ample Supply Assured |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19491202.2.24&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=128 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 December 1949}}</ref>
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* '''1950''' Feb 3 - Gov Warren supports $69 million CVP budget for 1951<ref>{{cite news |title=Warren Backs CVP Request |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19500203.2.13&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=180 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 February 1950}}</ref>
* Mar 16 - California house members cut $4 million of power project out of CVP budget<ref>{{cite news |title=Solons Approve $4,000,000 Cut In Fund For CVP |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19500316.2.21&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=17 |issue=215 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=16 March 1950}}</ref>
* Apr 14 - The Agricultural Council of California calls the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]'s public power operations socialist<ref>{{cite news |title=Farmers Corner |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=GP19500414.2.32&e=-------en--20-GP-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-geyserville+press-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |issue=29 |publisher=Geyserville Press |date=14 April 1950}}</ref>
* May 8 - Warning that government should withdraw from CVP if 160 acre ban on water rights removed<ref>{{cite news |title='Monumental Blunder' Hinted US TOLD TO WITHDRAW FROM CVP IF WATER RIGHTS ARE MENACED |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19500508.2.11&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=59 |issue=33 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=8 May 1950}}</ref>
* Jun 17 - PG&E attacked by Governor Warren for blocking CVP projects during Shasta Dam dedication<ref>{{cite news |title=Mighty Shasta Dedicated As A Monument to Californians CVP As It Stands 'Only Beginning' Speaker Asserts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19500617.2.18&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=59 |issue=67 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=17 June 1950}}</ref>
* Sep 19 - Detailed overview of how CVP works and impacts to Madera Irrigation District<ref>{{cite news |title=Large Acreage Will Be Served — New Water Supply To Enrich Madera |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19500919.2.281&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=59 |issue=145 |page=1F & 8F |work=Madera Tribune |date=19 September 1950}}</ref>
1951 Jan 3 - CVP and state agree to keep grasslands flooded to protect migratory birds<ref>{{cite news |title=New Water Sources Proposed COOPERATIVE PROGRAM DESIGNED TO PROTECT VALLEY WATERFOWL |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510103.2.45&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=59 |issue=233 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=3 January 1951}}</ref>
* Apr 20 - $18.3 of the $33.8 million CVP annual budget earmarked for Friant-Kern Canal<ref>{{cite news |title=Funds Approved For Friant-Kern |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510420.2.20&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=17 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=20 April 1951}}</ref>
* May 13 - Friant-Kern Canal completed<ref>{{cite news |title=Mighty CVP |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19510510.2.159&e=-------en--20-HTES-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-geyserville+press-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |issue=33 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=10 May 1951|volume = 86}}</ref>
* Jul 5 - The California legislature passes legislation to build the Oroville dam and power facilities as part of the CVP system<ref>{{cite news |title=State and County Comment: Feather River Dam |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19510705.2.118&e=-------en--20-HTES-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-geyserville+press-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |issue=41 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=5 July 1951}}</ref>
* Aug 1 - Shasta Dam starts sending water into CVP canals<ref>{{cite news |title=Great Shasta Dam Opens! - Valley Farms Benefit |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510801.2.12&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=102 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=1 August 1951}}</ref>
* Aug 8 - Friant dam ceremony exposes new rift as state court orders excess water released as tactic to flood aquifer<ref>{{cite news |title=Friant Dam Hailed as Keystone in CVP Water |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510808.2.8&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=108 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=8 August 1951}}</ref>
* Sep 13 - PG&E advertisement claim that 55% of all Central Valley water comes from aquifers by electric pumps<ref>{{cite news |title=WHERE CENTRAL VALLEY'S WATER COMES FROM |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SN19510913.2.67.3&e=-------en--20-SN-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-sausalito+news-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |issue=36 |publisher=Sausalito News |date=13 September 1951|volume = 66}}</ref>
* Sep 25 - Madera Tribune does extended coverage of CVP as major milestone in project is completed with historic map<ref>{{cite news |title=First Full Operation Of C.V.P. Is Milestone In Mankind's Progress |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510925.2.289&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=148 section 1E |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 September 1951}}</ref>
* Sep 25 - History of the Reclamation Act as part of Madera Tribune celebration issue<ref>{{cite news |title=First Project: 1903 HISTORY OF RECLAMATION IN WEST REVIEWED ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510925.2.295&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=148 |page=2E |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 September 1951}}</ref>
* Sep 25 - Unnamed (big) farmers take Madera Irrigation District water contract with [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] to court<ref>{{cite news |title=M. I. D. VALIDATION CASE OPENS Court Hears Landowners Protests |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19510925.2.13&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=148 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 September 1951}}</ref>
* '''1952''' Feb 23 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] proposes CVP Power plan that would takeover local PG&E project and spark major growth in Fresno<ref>{{cite news |title=POWER PLAN MAY SPARK AREA BOOM Proposed Development Is Outlined By Chapman |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19520223.2.20&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=275 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=23 February 1952}}</ref> 
* Mar 1 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] reports 1951 income of $8 million from water sales for 1951<ref>{{cite news |title=First Period of Integrated Use BUREAU OF RECLAMATION REPORTS OVER $8 MILLION 1951 INCOME |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19520301.2.81&srpos=29&e=------195-en--20-MT-21-byDA-txt-txIN-central+valley+project----1952---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=281 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=1 March 1952}}</ref> 
* Mar 21 - $34.9 million budget okayed by congress for construction activities<ref>{{cite news |title=$34,940,000 Is Approved For Work On CVP |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19520321.2.39&srpos=39&e=------195-en--20-MT-21-byDA-txt-txIN-central+valley+project----1952---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=60 |issue=298 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=21 March 1952}}</ref>
* May 2 - Sixteen large farmers representing 14,000 acres agree to take CVP water and eventually abide by 160 acre rule<ref>{{cite news |title=16 Agree To Dispose Of Acreage |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19520502.2.8&srpos=62&e=------195-en--20-MT-61-byDA-txt-txIN-central+valley+project----1952---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |issue=78 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=2 May 1952}}</ref>
* Dec 13 - SMUD makes contract to buy CVP power from [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP Power Sold To Sacramento |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19521213.2.4&srpos=16&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |issue=267 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 December 1952}}</ref>
* California legislature appropriated $10 million for investigation into state purchase of CVP 
* '''1953''' Jan 9 - President Truman asks for $83 million for CVP construction<ref>{{cite news |title=$83 Millions Asked In Water Projects For California |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530109.2.81&srpos=4&e=------195-en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-central+valley+project----1953---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |issue=288 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=9 January 1953}}</ref>
* Jan 10 – 110 foot coffer dam at CVP's $58 million Folsom dam breached - no deaths from flooding<ref>{{cite news |title=Study Damage In Break At Folsom |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530110.2.4&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |issue=289 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=10 January 1953}}</ref>
* Jan 24 - Madera Tribune enraged that [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] signs a long term contract to sell 17% of CVP excess power to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District<ref>{{cite news |title=California Under Attack |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530124.2.81&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |issue=301 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=24 January 1953}}</ref>
* Jan 28 - Lawsuit to stop all major water diversions a threat to the CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=Water Case Verdict Could Wreck CVP, Authority Told |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530128.2.41&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=61 |issue=304 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=28 January 1953}}</ref> 
* Apr 23 - House Committee headed by Ca. representatives cuts $7 million from $19 million CVP budget, all from power projects<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP Budget Cut By House Unit |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530423.2.3&srpos=37&e=------195-en--20-MT-21-byDA-txt-txIN-central+valley+project----1953---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=62 |issue=24 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=23 April 1953}}</ref>
* May 20 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] request to senate that it reinstates $7 million pulled from CVP's power and transmission budget<ref>{{cite news |title=Reclamation Office Asks Senate To Restore CVP Funds |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530520.2.75&srpos=45&e=------195-en--20-MT-41-byDA-txt-txIN-central+valley+project----1953---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=62 |issue=47 |page=7 |work=Madera Tribune |date=20 May 1953}}</ref> 
* May 28 - State legislature tries to block irrigation district contracts with [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Senate Bills Ban 9-E Contracts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530528.2.74&srpos=47&e=------195-en--20-MT-41-byDA-txt-txIN-central+valley+project----1953---1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=62 |issue=53 |page=7 |work=Madera Tribune |date=28 May 1953}}</ref>
* Sep 26 - Full details of the size and cost of [[Friant dam]] - the 4th largest concrete dam in world<ref>{{cite news |title=Friant Is Fourth Largest Concrete Dam In World |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19530926.2.59.7&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |issue=154 |publisher=Madera Tribune |date=26 September 1953|volume = 62}}</ref>
* Dec 28 - Republicans, corporate farms and state Chamber of Commerce push for state to buy CVP from Interior Dept.<ref>{{cite news |title=Central Valley Splits California - Plan to Buy Government Multiple Purpose Project Heads to a Showdown |work=New York Times |date=28 December 1953}}</ref>
* '''1954''' BR report: Four dams, five canals and other systems have been completed at a cost of $435.4 million 
* Jan 21 - President Eisenhower asks for $70.4 million CVP budget<ref>{{cite news |title=Fund For CVP Work Is Boosted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19540121.2.19&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=62 |issue=252 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=21 January 1954}}</ref>
* May 4 PG&E offers to buy CVP power and facilities for $130 million cash<ref>{{cite news |title=PGE Offers To Buy Out CV Project |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19540504.2.10&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=63 |issue=19 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=4 May 1954}}</ref>
* Aug 27 - Central Valley Project Act Reauthorization<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Valley Project Act Reauthorization |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=knI_AAAAIAAJ&q=Public+Law+674%2C+enacted+in+1954&pg=333 |website=google books |year = 1958|publisher=US Bureau of Reclamation |access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref>
* Sep 10 - Proposal for $230 million San Luis segment of the CVP announced includes map<ref>{{cite news |title=San Luis Unit Of CVP Hits Report Stage |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19540910.2.68&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=26 October 2019 |volume=63 |issue=127 |page=5 |work=Madera Tribune |date=10 September 1954}}</ref>
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* '''1955''' Feb 21 - PG&E makes proposal to buy CVP power from Trinity dam for $3.5 million a year<ref>{{cite news |title=PG&E Trinity Plan Offers Public Gain of $171 Million |publisher=PG&E News Bureau |date=21 February 1955}}</ref>
* Apr 14 - US BR ignores PG&E's proposal to take over the electric system of the $219 million Trinity dam<ref>{{cite news |title=No Immediate Action Termed Vital For Trinity Power Plan Work Could Start Now On Project Commissioner Says Decision Can Wait On Partnership Idea |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19550414.2.22&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=63 |issue=311 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune}}</ref>
* Jul 14 -  Urgent need for more water results in Trinity project moving ahead as San Luis project not ready<ref>{{cite news |title=Kuchel Requests Trinity Passage, Holding Other Solon Now Seeks Only One Project Proposes To Leave San Luis For Later Consideration |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19550714.2.21&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=64 |issue=53 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=14 July 1955}}</ref>
* Jul 16 - CVP $15 million budget for 1956 will be to complete [[Folsom Dam]] and being work on [[Trinity Dam]]<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP Work Plan Given |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19550716.2.21&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |agency=United press |volume=64 |issue=55 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=16 July 1955}}</ref>
* '''1956''' May 21 - Congress appropriates $83 million for irrigation with $20 million going to Central Valley projects including a [[Tulare Lake]] dam<ref>{{cite news |title=House Group Votes Dams For Tulare |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19560521.2.9&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=65 |issue=7 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=21 May 1956}}</ref> 
* Jul 19 - US BR announces plans to construct the [[Glen Canyon Dam]] and $42 million for five CVP projects for 1957<ref>{{cite news |title=Huge Western Project Slated |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19560719.2.22&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=65 |issue=56 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=19 July 1956}}</ref>
* '''1957''' - Fear based 28 minute video pushing to expand state expansion of water project<ref>{{cite web |title=California Waterama: The Story of the Feather River Project |url=https://archive.org/details/cua_00002 |website=Archive.org |publisher=Statewide Feather River Project Association |access-date=10 November 2019}}</ref> 
* Feb 20 - PG&E attacks republican senators opposition to PG&E's proposal for joint construction of Trinity Dam project<ref>{{cite news |title=PG&E Head Challenges Kuchels Opposition |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19570220.2.4&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=65 |issue=237 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=20 February 1957}}</ref>
* Jun 13 - $88 million for California was given but excluded all funding for transmission systems<ref>{{cite news |title=Federal Funds At $ 88 Million For Flood Work |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19570613.2.2&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=66 |issue=26 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 June 1957}}</ref>
* Oct 14 - U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear the USBR's 160-acre ban on big water users<ref>{{cite news |title=160-Acre Limit Rulings Draw Court's Perusal |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19571014.2.10&srpos=83&e=------195-en--20-MT-81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=66 |issue=129 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=14 October 1957}}</ref>
* Oct 29 - 5 million acre feet a year being extracted from Central Valley's aquifer<ref>{{cite news |title=No. 1 Problem Pumping Out Water Causes Land Shifts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19571029.2.14&srpos=82&e=------195-en--20-MT-81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=66 |issue=142 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=29 October 1957}}</ref>
* Nov 1 - CVP's Feather River project considered world's largest engineering project<ref>{{cite news |title=Feather River Plan World's Biggest Job |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19571101.2.3&srpos=81&e=------195-en--20-MT-81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=66 |issue=145 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=1 November 1957}}</ref>
* '''1958''' Jan 23 - PG&E agrees to renegotiate rates it charges for CVP power after report discloses company's rate manipulation<ref>{{cite news |title=PGE Offers To Renegotiate Contracts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19580123.2.86&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=66 |issue=202 |page=8 |work=Madera Tribune |date=23 January 1958}}</ref>
* Feb 5 - Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton recommends that PG&E be allowed to takeover Trinity Dam power<ref>{{cite news |title=PGE Offered Best River Deal |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19580205.2.103&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |agency=United Press |volume=66 |issue=211 |page=7 |work=Madera Tribune |date=5 February 1958}}</ref>
* Mar 5 - CVP Plan to add 2 million acre feet of water in San Joaquin Valley endorsed<ref>{{cite news |title=New Water Plan Backed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19580305.2.11&srpos=59&e=------195-en--20-MT-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=66 |issue=231 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=5 March 1958}}</ref>
* May 26 - Proposal for San Luis Canal project and 500,000 acres of land in western Merced, Fresno and Kings counties<ref>{{cite news |title=Favorable Report Sought On Bill |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19580526.2.18&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=67 |issue=9 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=26 May 1958}}</ref>
* Jun 9 - Congress okays $42 million budget for coming CVP's next fiscal year<ref>{{cite news |title=Projects Are Added |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19580609.2.20&srpos=49&e=------195-en--20-MT-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=67 |issue=19 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=9 June 1958}}</ref>
* Jun 23 - U.S. Supreme Court reverses state supreme court in upholding the 160-acre ban on USBR water to large users<ref>{{cite news |title=MID CONTRACT OK UNDER NEW RULING U. S. Supreme Court Reverses State Body |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19580623.2.3&srpos=47&e=------195-en--20-MT-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=67 |issue=29 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=23 June 1958}}</ref>
* Oct 15 - Total of 444,000 Kilowatts of CVP power being transfer to PG&E<ref>{{cite news |title=More CVP Power Allocated |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19581015.2.70&srpos=38&e=------195-en--20-MT-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=67 |issue=110 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=15 October 1958}}</ref>
* '''1959''' Feb 13 - PG&E plan to build "cream skimmer" transmission lines between Bonneville and CVP attacked<ref>{{cite news |title=Engle Alarmed Over Reporls PGE Plans NW Hookup |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590213.2.24&srpos=25&e=------195-en--20-MT-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=4 November 2019 |volume=67 |issue=195 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 February 1959}}</ref>
* Mar 18 - representative [[James B. Utt]] introduces legislation to turn all Trinity Dam power over to PG&E<ref>{{cite news |last1=Utt |first1=James |title=In Congress |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LHS19590318.2.84&e=-------en--20-LHS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-la+habra+star-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |issue=69 |publisher=La Habra Star |date=18 March 1959}}</ref>
* Apr 27 - Two more dams proposed for CVP project<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP Inclusion Of Local Dams To Be Discussed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590427.2.8&srpos=20&e=------195-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=4 November 2019 |volume=67 |issue=246 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=27 April 1959}}</ref>
* May 12 - Governor Brown releases breakdown on where $1.75 billion funding for State Water Project will go to<ref>{{cite news |title=All Parts Will Share, Brown Says |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590512.2.84&srpos=18&e=------195-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=4 November 2019 |issue=257 |work=Madera Tribune |date=12 May 1959|volume = 67}}</ref>
* Jun 3 - Congress okays $103 Million with $43 to USBR and $59.8 to Corps of Engineers for state irrigation and flooding<ref>{{cite news |title=OK Given Public Works In California |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590603.2.86&srpos=15&e=------195-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=4 November 2019 |volume=68 |issue=15 |page=8 |work=Madera Tribune |date=3 June 1959}}</ref>
* Oct 21 - California [[National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry|Grange]] opposed to state takeover of [[Oroville Dam]] and giving PG&E control of [[Trinity Dam]] electricity<ref>{{cite news |title=MewFarm Program Needed Sehlmeyi Tells Grange |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19581021.1.1&e=-------en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22+jimmy+carter-------1 |access-date=20 February 2020 |issue=248 |publisher=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=21 October 1958|volume = 102}}</ref>
* Jul 9 - Governor Brown signs $1.75 billion state water bond law that includes 735 foot high [[Oroville Dam]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Water Bond Bill Is Signed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590709.2.10&srpos=12&e=------195-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=4 November 2019 |agency=Madera Tribune |volume=68 |issue=41 |page=1 |date=9 July 1959}}</ref>
* Sep 30 - Interior Department signs two new contracts with PG&E for 629,000 Kilowatts of CVP electricity from four dams<ref>{{cite news |title=Interior Dept. OKs 2 Major CVP Contracts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590930.2.19&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=68 |issue=99 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 September 1959}}</ref>
* Sep 30 - Madera Irrigation District opposed Fresno plan to take San Joqauin River surplus water<ref>{{cite news |title=MID Seeks Curb On Fresno Move |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590930.2.22&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=22 October 2019 |volume=68 |issue=99 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 September 1959}}</ref>
* Sep 30 - Interior Department extends PG&E contracts for CVP Power up to April 1971<ref>{{cite news |title=Interior Dept. OKs 2 Major CVP Contracts |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19590930.2.19&srpos=8&e=------195-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=4 November 2019 |volume=68 |issue=99 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=30 September 1959}}</ref>
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* '''1960''' State and [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] cooperation Agreement<ref>{{cite web |title=Addendum to the Coordinated Operation Agreement Central Valley Project/State Water Project |url=https://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_project_details.php?Project_ID=36501 |website=usbr.gov |access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>
* Jul 1 - Congress okays $61 million CVP budget<ref>{{cite news |title=Committee Okays $50,000 to Plan Mojave Reservoir |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19600701.1.19&srpos=84&e=------196-en--20-SBS-81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=66 |page=19 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=1 July 1960}}</ref>
* '''1961''' Feb 2 - State takes first step in $400 State Water Project<ref>{{cite news |title=Pact Starts Huge State Water Project First Major Step Taken in Contract For San Luis Dam |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19610202.1.1&srpos=75&e=------196-en--20-SBS-61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=67 |page=1 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=2 February 1961}}</ref>
* Aug 10 - History of EBMUD and the November 1959 $1.7 billion state water project vote<ref>{{cite news |title=State Must Continue To Develop Woter Supplies To Keep Ahead Of Population |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19610810.2.79&srpos=32&e=-------en--20-MT-21-byDA-txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=70 |issue=62 |page=10 |work=Madera Tribune |date=10 August 1961}}</ref>
* '''1962''' - May 17 - $27 million joint CVP funding project proposed<ref>{{cite news |title=Kuchel Appeals For San Luis Project Funds |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19620517.1.3&srpos=65&e=------196-en--20-SBS-61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=68 |page=3 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=17 May 1962}}</ref>
* '''1963''' - Corps of Engineers dredges the [[Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel]] to the port of Sacramento.
* Jan 18 - Congress to propose $106 million annual CVP Budget<ref>{{cite news |title=$106 Million for State Water Projects Put in Federal Budget |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19630118.1.42&srpos=61&e=------196-en--20-SBS-61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=69 |page=42 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=18 January 1963}}</ref>
* Mar 2 - Governor Brown Announced $325 Million plan to fund state water project<ref>{{cite news |title=Brown Unveils New Water Finance Plan |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19630302.1.1&srpos=58&e=------196-en--20-SBS-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=69 |page=1 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=2 March 1963}}</ref>
* May 24 - State Senate votes against Governor Brown's proposal to fund state plan with bonds<ref>{{cite news |title=Senate Votes Against Use Off CVP Bonds |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19630524.1.7&srpos=44&e=------196-en--20-SBS-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=69 |page=7 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=24 May 1963}}</ref>
* June 11 - Attempts by Republicans to kill the sale of $325 million in bonds for state water project fails<ref>{{cite news |title=Bill Banning Wafer Bonds Sale Defeated |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19630611.1.10&srpos=42&e=------196-en--20-SBS-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=69 |page=10 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=11 June 1963}}</ref>
* Dec 15 - Extended summary of all the state's new water plans laid out in series of articles by agency<ref>{{cite news |title=Decade of Building Gets Under Way in Early 1960s |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19631215.1.41&srpos=34&e=------196-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=17 |page=41 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=15 December 1963}}</ref>
* '''1964''' Jan 13 - SMUD, EBMud and growing construction of dams background story on state water expansion<ref>{{cite news |title=California's Crescendo Of Water Development |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19640113.2.49&srpos=34&e=-------en--20-MT-21-byDA-txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=72 |issue=171 |page=7 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 January 1964}}</ref>
* Jan 21 - Utility Districts across the state will benefit from expansion of the state water project (map of state plan)<ref>{{cite news |title=Big, Small Districts Will Benefit From Water Plan |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19640121.2.24&srpos=36&e=-------en--20-MT-21-byDA-txt-txIN-sacramento+municipal+utility+district-------1 |access-date=27 October 2019 |volume=72 |issue=177 |page=3 |work=Madera Tribune |date=21 January 1964}}</ref>
* Jan 22 - $112 million annual CVP budget proposed to congress with state to include $42 million for San Luis<ref>{{cite news |title=California Projects in Water Budget |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19640122.1.3&srpos=32&e=------196-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=70 |page=3 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=22 January 1964}}</ref>
* '''1965''' - Inter-agency Delta Committee recommendation for Peripheral Canal and Delta facilities<ref>{{cite web |title=Delta History |url=https://www.discoverthedelta.org/delta-history/ |website=discoverthedelta.org/ |access-date=20 February 2020 |archive-date=February 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220172130/https://www.discoverthedelta.org/delta-history/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* Jan 14 - City of Santa Clara asked LBJ for direct access to CVP vs. PG&E power<ref>{{cite news |title=White House Gets Santa Clara Low Cost Plea |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19650114.1.18&srpos=26&e=------196-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=71 |page=18 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=14 January 1965}}</ref>
* July 23 - $5 billion San Luis Reservoir segment of the CVP begins construction<ref>{{cite news |title=$5 Billion San Luis Project Recreation Development Slated |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19650723.2.20&srpos=86&e=------196-en--20-MT-81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=74 |issue=49 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=23 July 1965}}</ref>
* Aug 4 - PG&E Hydro-electric project connects 3 rivers near Shasta<ref>{{cite news |title=PG&E Project Reunites Rivers |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19650804.2.123&srpos=85&e=------196-en--20-MT-81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=74 |issue=57 |page=21 |work=Madera Tribune |date=4 August 1965}}</ref>
* Aug 6 - Auburn-Folsom Project goes before congress for funding<ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Irrigation Plan Heads To Final Approval In Congress |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19650806.2.6&srpos=84&e=------196-en--20-MT-81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=74 |issue=59 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=6 August 1965}}</ref>
* Sept 16 - Governor Brown request $188 million for CVP funding<ref>{{cite news |title=Brown Asks Federal Appropriation For State Flood Control Projects |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19650916.2.19&srpos=80&e=------196-en--20-MT-61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=74 |issue=87 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=16 September 1965}}</ref>
* '''1966''' Jan 25 - President Johnson asks Congress for $100 million CVP annual budget<ref>{{cite news |title=County Project in LBJ Budget |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19660125.1.19&srpos=18&e=------196-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=72 |page=21 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=25 January 1966}}</ref>
* Mar 11 - 21st Century water shortage predicted if system not expanded<ref>{{cite news |title=NEXT CENTURY Coastal Water Crisis Is Seen |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19660311.2.79&srpos=70&e=------196-en--20-MT-61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=74 |issue=211 |page=5 |work=Madera Tribune |date=11 March 1966}}</ref>
* Apr 3 - State water project good until 1990 but won't handle predicted 54 million population expected by 2020<ref>{{cite news |title=State Eyes Water Demands for Over 54 Million by 2020 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19660403.1.17&srpos=14&e=------196-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=19 |page=17 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=3 April 1966}}</ref>
* Apr 26 - State seeks $164 million from feds for CVP's 1967 fiscal year<ref>{{cite news |title=State Seeks $164 Million For Water Program |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19660426.2.11&srpos=65&e=------196-en--20-MT-61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=74 |issue=243 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=26 April 1966}}</ref>
* '''1967''' Jan 13 - CVP produces record 5.3 billion kilowatts hours of electricity in 1966<ref>{{cite news |title=Record Year For Power Generation In Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19670113.2.39&srpos=51&e=------196-en--20-MT-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=75 |issue=170 |page=4 |work=Madera Tribune |date=13 January 1967}}</ref>
* Jan 25 - President Johnson withholds $34 million for CVP's San Luis project<ref>{{cite news |title=Yosemite, San Luis Hit By Fund Slowdown |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19670125.2.7&srpos=50&e=------196-en--20-MT-41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=75 |issue=178 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=25 January 1967}}</ref>
* Oct 6 - State Water Project's Oroville Dam and Reservoir are completed<ref>{{cite news |title=Milestone In Water Plan: Oroville Dam Is Completed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19671006.2.3&srpos=38&e=------196-en--20-MT-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=76 |issue=102 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=6 October 1967}}</ref>
* Oct 18 - State Assemblyman seeks $600 million in Bonds for the state's water project<ref>{{cite news |title=Assemblyman Seeks Another $600 Million for Water Job |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19671018.1.3&srpos=11&e=------196-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=74 |page=3 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=18 October 1967}}</ref>
* '''1968''' Feb 8 - State budgets $425 million for state's water project<ref>{{cite news |title=$425 Million Planned By State In Water Resources |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19680205.2.19&srpos=31&e=------196-en--20-MT-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=76 |issue=186 |page=2 |work=Madera Tribune |date=5 February 1968}}</ref>
* Apr 19 - CVP's [[San Luis Reservoir]] dedicated<ref>{{cite news |title=Century-Old Idea Comes True With Dedication Of San Luis |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19680419.2.11&srpos=19&e=------196-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=76 |issue=240 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=19 April 1968}}</ref>
* May 16 - $468 million cut to<ref>{{cite news |title=Proposed $6 Billion Cut Will Force Nationwide Public Works Stoppage |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19680516.2.48&srpos=16&e=------196-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=77 |issue=3 |page=6 |work=Madera Tribune |date=16 May 1968}}</ref> proposed on CVP's [[Auburn Dam]] project
* Dec 28 - Interior Dept. okays new CVP plan along east side of valley<ref>{{cite news |title=East Side Feasibility Water Report Wins US. Approval |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MT19681224.2.10&srpos=2&e=------196-en--20-MT-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-central+valley+project-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=77 |issue=159 |page=1 |work=Madera Tribune |date=24 December 1968}}</ref>
* '''1969''' - State Water Project obtains emergency loan from state treasury as inflation rates have dried up funding from bond sales<ref>{{cite news |title=State Water Project Gets Needed Funds |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=EVEI19690912.1.1&e=-------en--20-MT-1-byDA-txt-txIN-madera+tribune-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |volume=96 |page=1 |publisher=San Bernardino Evening Telegram and the Evening Index |date=12 September 1969}}</ref>
* 1969 - The Harvey O. Banks Delta Pumping Plant and John E. Skinner Fish Facility are completed by [[California Department of Water Resources#DWR timeline|DWR]]
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* '''1970''' Mar 15 - Army Corps of Engineers announces construction of 625 foot high [[New Melones Dam]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Army Engineers Will Proceed With the Dam |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19700315.1.25&srpos=176&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=23 |issue=103 |page=25 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=15 March 1970}}</ref>
* Apr 30 - Governor Reagan promotes $209 million 43 mile long, 400 foot wide [[Peripheral Canal]] plan<ref>{{cite news |title=Reagan Wants Canal In San Joaquin Delta |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19700430.1.9&srpos=175&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=9 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=30 April 1970}}</ref>
* '''1971''' Jan 29 - Nixon administration proposes $150 million for state water projects<ref>{{cite news |title=Nixon Asks $150 Million For State Water Resources |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19710129.2.53&srpos=172&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=44 |issue=152 |page=6 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=29 January 1971}}</ref>
* Feb 15 - [[Northern California Power Agency|NCPA]] files [[Writ]] with [[California Public Utilities Commission|CPUC]] to stop PG&E power contract with [[Sacramento Municipal Utility District|SMUD]] for [[Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station|Rancho Seco]] surplus power<ref>{{cite news |title=writ of review by cpuc asked |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19710215.1.21&srpos=171&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |issue=12 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=15 February 1971|volume = 116}}</ref>
* Mar 18 - [[Sierra Club]] files lawsuit to shut down the CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Water Plan Protested By Club |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19710318.2.67&srpos=170&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=44 |issue=193 |page=11 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=18 March 1971}}</ref>
* Jul 23 - [[California State Water Resources Control Board]] sets CVP water quality standards.<ref>{{cite news |title=Water Resources Board Decision |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19710723.2.52&srpos=168&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=44 |issue=302 |page=7 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=23 July 1971}}</ref>
* Jul 30 - California Water Resources Association attacks passage of Wild and Scenic Rivers legislation<ref>{{cite news |title=CWRA Hits 'Wild River' Bill |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19710730.2.82&srpos=166&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=44 |issue=308 |page=10 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=30 July 1971}}</ref>
* Oct 8 - New association of state agencies formed to promote water projects<ref>{{cite news |title=Northern California Men In New Agency |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19711008.2.80&srpos=162&e=------197-en--20--161-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=45 |issue=56 |page=10 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=8 October 1971}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Association of California Water Agencies |url=https://www.acwa.com/ |website=ACWA.com |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref>
* '''1972''' Jan 20 - Labor Leader says 45 corporations with 3.7 million acres gets illegal [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] water subsidies<ref>{{cite news |title=Farm Union Key to Better Living Standards Says Unions - Land Limitation for Federal Water Another Key |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19720120.2.58&srpos=159&e=------197-en--20--141-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=68 |issue=26 |page=7 |publisher=Calexico Chronicle |date=20 January 1972}}</ref>
* May 25 - Proposition 9 ban on nuclear development will endanger CVP says California Water Resources Association<ref>{{cite news |title=Water Resource Association Hits Prop. 9 |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19720525.2.50&srpos=157&e=------197-en--20--141-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=45 |issue=252 |page=7 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=25 May 1972}}</ref>
* Aug 10 - $4.9 million CVP contract for 25 of 188 mile long San Luis drain awarded<ref>{{cite news |title=Valley Project Awarded |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19720810.1.30&srpos=155&e=------197-en--20--141-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=30 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=10 August 1972}}</ref> 
* Dec 7 - [[Government Accountability Office|GAO]] study says big landowners received $1.5 billion CVP water subsidy<ref>{{cite news |title=Landholders In State Gain Water Subsidy |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19721207.2.24&srpos=151&e=------197-en--20--141-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=A3 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=7 December 1972}}</ref>
* '''1973''' - legislation funds new Delta levees<ref>{{cite web |title=Delta Levees System Integrity Program |url=http://bondaccountability.resources.ca.gov/Program.aspx?ProgramPK=96&Program=Delta%20Levees%20System%20Integrity%20Program&PropositionPK=5 |website=bondaccountability.resources.ca.gov |access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>
* Feb 9 - Nixon administration blocks $2 million in CVP funds okayed by Congress<ref>{{cite news |title=Tunney Hits At Bill Cut |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19730209.2.89&srpos=148&e=------197-en--20--141-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=B12 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=9 February 1973}}</ref>
* '''1974''' Feb 14 - History of Peripheral canal plan dates to 1964<ref>{{cite news |title=Canal Project Debated |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19740214.2.42&srpos=143&e=------197-en--20--141-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=A5 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=14 February 1974}}</ref>
* Jul 11 - 29,000-acre Giffen Inc. broken up and sold to comply with 160-acre [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] rules<ref>{{cite news |title=Largest Sale of Excess Lands by Bureau in San Joaquin Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19740711.2.50&srpos=139&e=------197-en--20--121-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=69 |issue=50 |page=6 |publisher=Calexico Chronicle |date=11 July 1974}}</ref>
* Sept 25 - Environmental review for 43 mile long Peripheral canal released<ref>{{cite news |title=Canal Project Gains Support |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19740925.2.147&srpos=137&e=------197-en--20--121-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=B6 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=25 September 1974}}</ref>
* '''1975''' Sept 4 - [[Healdsburg, California|Healdsburg]] joins 10 [[Northern California Power Agency|NCPA]] other cities to obtain its own electricity<ref>{{cite news |title=Healdsburg joins other cities in search for electric power |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19750904.2.6&e=------197-en--20--121-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |issue=66 |page=1 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=4 September 1975}}</ref>
* '''1976''' Jan 28 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] says there will be enough water for the year as drought continues<ref>{{cite news |title=Adequate Water Supply Predicted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19760128.2.59&srpos=128&e=------197-en--20--121-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=A8 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=28 January 1976}}</ref>
* Mar 24 - 59 farmers file $33 million lawsuit against CVP and [[California State Water Project|SWP]] for 1974 flood damages<ref>{{cite news |title=Several Growers File Big Lawsuit |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19760324.1.42&srpos=126&e=------197-en--20--121-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=120 |issue=70 |page=42 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=24 March 1976}}</ref>
* Apr 22 - Eight mile Pacheco tunnel from San Luis reservoir to Santa Clara started<ref>{{cite news |title=Pacheco Tunnel Work Slated To Begin Sometime In July |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19760422.1.1&srpos=125&e=------197-en--20--121-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |issue=95 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=22 April 1976|volume = 120}}</ref>
* '''1977''' - [[California Department of Water Resources|Department of Water Resources]] supports Peripheral Canal as best way move water to the Delta<ref>{{cite web |title=Delta Timeiline |url=https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-chronology |website=watereducation.org |access-date=20 February 2020}}</ref>
* Feb 8 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] announces plan to cut CVP water by up to 75% due to drought<ref>{{cite news |title=Many state farmers face 75 pet. irrigation cutback |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19770208.1.1&srpos=111&e=------197-en--20--101-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=1 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=8 February 1977}}</ref>
* Feb 25 - Westland's Land Dynamics Inc. pleads guilty and fined $10,000 for conspiracy to violate land sale rules<ref>{{cite news |title=Westland Land Sales - Bonadelle raps Bureau for its 'Double Standard' |page=B1 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=25 February 1977}}</ref>
* Apr 17 - President Carter stops 15 water projects including review of CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=President Dump 15 Water Projects |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19770417.1.1&srpos=37&e=------197-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=19 November 2019 |page=1 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=17 April 1977}}</ref>
* Apr 21 - Salyer Land and J.G. Boswell Cos. (cotton growers) propose buying $45 million [[Pine Flat Dam]] to bypass 160-acre rule<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=George |title=A Capital Laugh - Pine Flats Dam For Sale? |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=21 April 1977}}</ref>
* Sept 15 - Assembly votes 56-22 in favor of SB 346 Peripheral Canal legislation<ref>{{cite news |title=Keene backs Peripheral Canal |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19770915.2.51&srpos=79&e=------197-en--20--61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |issue=50 |page=A10 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=15 September 1977}}</ref>
* Sept 16 - Senate votes down Governor Brown's $4.2 billion Peripheral Canal proposal<ref>{{cite news |title=Periphreal Canal Dead |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19770916.1.1&srpos=32&e=------197-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |issue=page 1 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=16 September 1977}}</ref>
* Oct 6 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] lost $74 million between 1971 and April 1976 for underpricing electricity sold to PG&E<ref>{{cite news |title=U.S. agency loses cash selling power too cheaply |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19771006.1.6&srpos=30&e=------197-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=19 November 2019 |agency=Associated Press |page=6 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=6 October 1977}}</ref>
* Nov 5 - 529 page federal report says [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] has failed to breakup corporate ownership in Westlands over 160 acre limit on water subsidies<ref name="Fres Bee Report">{{cite news |title=Report: Westlands Violates 160 Acre law |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q112Pbb8j0wC&pg=PA751 |access-date=23 November 2019 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=5 November 1977}}</ref>
* Nov 5 - Government task force report documents $2.7 billion water subsidy to CVP farmers at taxpayers expense<ref name="Fres Bee Report"/>
* Nov 5 - Report documents how the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]]'s 197 mile long San Luis drain (Kesterson) in the Westlands went from $7 million to $542 million<ref name="Fres Bee Report"/>
* Nov 30 - Roberts Farm Inc's 8,100 acre operations in Kern county goes bankrupt and sold for $21.5 million<ref>{{cite news |last1=Patterson |first1=William |title=Bankruptcy Referee Approves Sale of Roberts Farm Land |page=G2 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=30 November 1977}}</ref>
* Dec 11 - The Chandler family's L.A. Times caught in conflict of Interest over newspaper's attack on 160-acre limit as family owns major investments in [[Tejon Ranch]] and [[James Griffin Boswell|J.G. Boswell Company]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Publisher Denies Interest Conflict In Rapping 160-Acre Limit |page=2 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=11 December 1977}}</ref>
* Dec 19 - California v. U.S.<ref>{{cite web |title=California v. United States, 438 U.S. 645 (1978) |url=https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/438/645/ |website=Justia.com |publisher=U.S. Government |access-date=8 November 2019}}</ref> Supreme Court case over control of discharge rights<ref>{{cite news |title=Vital Water Decision Due |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19771219.2.178&srpos=58&e=------197-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=B20 |publisher=Desert Sun |date=19 December 1977}}</ref>
* '''1978''' - [[California State Water Resources Control Board]] releases Water Rights Decision 1485 (D-1485) requiring Delta water quality<ref>{{cite web |title=Water Rights Decisions |url=https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_decisions/adopted_orders/decisions/d1450_d1499.shtml |website=waterboards.ca.gov |access-date=30 November 2019}}</ref>
* Jan 6 - Call for one year moratorium over 160-acre ban ruling and Interior Dept decision<ref>{{cite news |title=Andrus decision may delay new acreage limitation rules |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780106.1.4&srpos=26&e=------197-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |page=6 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=6 January 1978}}</ref>
* Jan 26 - CVP water rates too cheap as study shows project will be $8.8 billion in debt by 2037<ref>{{cite news |title=Federal water found to be overly cheap |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780126.1.6&srpos=23&e=------197-en--20-SBS-21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |page=6 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=26 January 1978}}</ref>
* Feb 8 - PG&E making 800% profit on CVP power it buys<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP should pay own way |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780208.1.46&srpos=5&e=-------en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22+jimmy+carter-------1 |access-date=18 November 2019 |page=46 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=8 February 1978}}</ref>
* Feb 20 - [[Farm Credit System#Federal Land Bank (FLB)|Federal Land Bank of Sacramento]] ignores 160-acre CVP rlimit rule when issuing loans to large farmers<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carroll |first1=Larry |title=US Land Bank is Unfazed by 160-Acre Controversy |page=A12 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=20 February 1978}}</ref>
* Mar 18 - Sec. of Interior urges cooperative operations - state charges $22 vs. CVP charging $3.50 per acre foot of water<ref>{{cite news |title=Andrus Asks Joint Canal Operation |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780318.1.4&srpos=18&e=------197-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |page=4 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=18 March 1978}}</ref>
* July 4 - US Supreme Court rules in favor of state over right to enforce environmental regulations<ref>{{cite news |title=Court Awards State Water Rights |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19780704.1.4&srpos=14&e=------197-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |page=4 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=4 July 1978}}</ref>
* Sep 20 - Lobbyists for Salyer Land and J.G. Boswell Cos. who own 150,000-acres of cotton lands paid $165,000 to fight 160-acre limit<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=George |title=Lobbyists Spend Well in Kings Farm Struggle |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=20 September 1978}}</ref>
* Nov 8 - Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 742l; 92 Stat. 3110) -- Public Law 95-616 updates CVP Act<ref>{{cite web |title=Fish and Wildlife Improvement Act of 1978 |url=https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/FWIMPR.HTML |website=FWS.gov |publisher=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref>
* Nov 21 - Westlands Irrigation District legal Budget for 1979 set at $549,000 to fight the federal government<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hall |first1=Richard |title=Westlands Budget Reflects Legal Battles over Water |page=D15 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=21 November 1978}}</ref>
* '''1979''' Jan 3 - Dept. of Interior agrees to abide by state's environmental quality rules<ref>{{cite news |title=Action OKd to aid Delta water quality |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19790103.1.5&srpos=10&e=------197-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |page=5 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=3 January 1979}}</ref>
* Jan 16 - Bill to allocate $50 Million for state water project including money for Peripheral canal introduced<ref>{{cite news |title=Bills Introduced |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19790116.1.5&srpos=8&e=------197-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=5 November 2019 |page=5 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=16 January 1979}}</ref>
* Feb 25 - J.G. Boswell investigated for secret contract by Grand Jury with Cotton Inc. (lobby firm) $113 million 10 year budget<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=George |title=Grand Jury Probes Boswell - Did Cotton Firm use Secret Contract to Evade Law? |page=A16 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=25 February 1979}}</ref>
* Mar 8 - US Dept. of Agriculture expands probe of Boswell-Cotton Inc. $60,000 annual contract for [[Cotton Board (United States)|Cotton Board]] research and promotion<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=George |title=USDA Expanding Cotton Inc. Probe |page=B5 |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=8 March 1979}}</ref>
* Mar 11 - Westlands Irrigation District hires Washington lawfirm of [[Williams & Connolly]] to represent their 160-acre legal fight<ref>{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=George |title=The Water Campaign -- Politics, Cajoling, Money, Arm Twisting |publisher=Fresno Bee |date=11 March 1979}}</ref>
* Mar 22 - Senate hearings open on the Reclamation Reform Act of 1979 - to replace the 160-acre limit for [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] water<ref>{{cite web |title=Reclamation Reform Act of 1979: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q112Pbb8j0wC |website=Google |year = 1979|publisher=U.S. Printing Office |access-date=30 November 2019}}</ref> 
* Mar 23 - Western water war erupts over hundreds of millions of acres of subsidized lands with call to change 160-acre limitation<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sinclair |first1=Ward |title=At Stake Millions of Acres of Farmland -- Battel Begins in New War of the West |newspaper=Washington Post |date=23 March 1979}}</ref>
* Apr 13 - Support for study calling for 200 foot increase of Shasta Dam<ref>{{cite news |title=Shasta water potential study backed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19790413.2.85&srpos=13&e=------197-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |page=A13 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=13 April 1979}}</ref> 
* Oct 11 - Regional battle between farmers and environmentalists hold up dams and Peripheral Canal plans<ref>{{cite news |last1=Underwood |first1=Doug |title=Squabbling Endangers California's Water Supplies |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19791011.1.5&srpos=2&e=------197-en--20-SBS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=19 November 2019 |agency=Gannett News Service |page=5 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=11 October 1979}}</ref>
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* '''1980''' Mar 13 - State legislature passes SB200 Peripheral Canal act opposed by ecologists<ref>{{cite news |title=Conservationists Want Public Vote On Bill |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19800313.1.4&srpos=19&e=------198-en--20-SCS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=124 |issue=61 |page=4 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=13 March 1980}}</ref>
* Oct 18 - Santa Clara power users sue agency for $18 million over rates<ref>{{cite news |title=Santa Clara Electrical Users Seek $18 Million |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19801015.1.8&srpos=15&e=------198-en--20-SCS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=125 |issue=245 |page=8 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=15 October 1980}}</ref>
* '''1981''' Oct 21 - CVP proposal to sell power to city of Healdsburg announced<ref>{{cite news |title=City plugs into power from Central Valley |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19811021.2.2&srpos=14&e=------198-en--20-HTES-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=5 |page=1 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=21 October 1981}}</ref>
* '''1982''' - Voters defeat the Peripheral Canal initiative - Proposition 9<ref>{{cite web |title=California Proposition 9, the Peripheral Canal Act (June 1982) |url=https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_9,_the_Peripheral_Canal_Act_(June_1982) |website=ballotpedia.org |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>
* Apr 29 - Santa Cruz to do study on takeover of PG&E power grid<ref>{{cite news |title=Public Utility Study |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19820429.1.46&srpos=11&e=------198-en--20-SCS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=126 |issue=101 |page=46 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=29 April 1982}}</ref>
* Apr 30 - Healdsburg to start buying CVP power from Westeran Area Power Administration<ref>{{cite news |title=Utility rate changes proposed |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19820430.2.13&srpos=8&e=------198-en--20-HTES-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=60 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=30 April 1982}}</ref>
* May 4 - Healdsburg breaks from PG&E power<ref>{{cite news |title=City power pulls away from PG&E |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19820521.2.7&srpos=7&e=------198-en--20-HTES-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=65 |page=2 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=21 May 1982}}</ref>
* August 4 - PG&E claims Healdsburg owes them $62,000 as city goes for public power<ref>{{cite news |title=PG&E socks city with $62,000 claim Utility seeks payment for surplus hydro power |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19820804.2.2&srpos=6&e=------198-en--20-HTES-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=85 |page=1 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=4 August 1982}}</ref>
* '''1983''' Oct 2 - Republicans moves away from conservation on Central Valley water<ref>{{cite news |title=State's new water chief wants to open the tap Brown shut off |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19831002.1.80&srpos=81&e=------198-en--20--81-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |page=80 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=2 October 1983}}</ref> 
* '''1984''' May 5 - National Wildlife Federation says [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] under collected water fees by $10 billion<ref>{{cite news |title=Department blamed for not collecting West water costs |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19840525.2.18&srpos=74&e=------198-en--20--61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=253 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=25 May 1984}}</ref>
* Nov 16 - Federal plan to dump Central Valley waste water into Pacific attacked<ref>{{cite news |title=Plan to ship Central Valley wastewater into ocean discouraged by federal study |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19841116.1.7&srpos=70&e=------198-en--20--61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |volume=129 |issue=269 |page=A7 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=16 November 1984}}</ref>
* '''1985''' Mar 30 - Interior Dept plan to stop dumping Central Valley toxics into Kesterson<ref>{{cite news |title=Agreement reached on water flow |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19850330.2.80&srpos=66&e=------198-en--20--61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=204 |page=A19 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=30 March 1985}}</ref>
* Aug 21 - CVP has made $1.5 billion in illegal subsidies to giant ag farms<ref>{{cite news |title=Group claims U.S. paying |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19850821.1.37&srpos=1&e=------198-en--20-SCS-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |volume=129 |issue=197 |page=37 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=21 August 1985}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Group claims U.S. funds illegal farming subsidies |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19850821.2.41&srpos=57&e=------198-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=15 |page=A4 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=21 August 1985}}</ref>
* Sep 10 - House passes on cooperative agreement between CVP and [[California State Water Project|SWP]]<ref>{{cite news |title=The House has approved "peace treaty" legislation |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19850910.1.2&srpos=55&e=------198-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |page=2 |publisher=San Bernardino Sun |date=10 September 1985}}</ref>
* '''1986''' - DWR-[[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] Coordinated Operation Agreement, agreed to by Congress.<ref>{{cite web |title=H.R.3113 - A bill providing for the coordinated operation of the Central Valley project and the State water project in California. |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/house-bill/3113 |website=congress.gov |date=October 27, 1986 |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>
* Nov 27 - Ceremony held in Sacramento on agreement between CVP and [[California State Water Project|SWP]]<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER AGREEMENT SIGNING SET FOR MONDAY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19861127.2.26&srpos=45&e=------198-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=17 |publisher=Calexico Chronicle |date=27 November 1986|volume = 83}}</ref>
* '''1987''' - [[California State Water Resources Control Board|State Water Board]] starts revision of D-1485 after U.S. EPA calls plan inadequate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bay Delta March & April 1998 Hearing Notice |url=https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/bay_delta/notices/1997/2dec97ntc.shtml |website=waterboards.ca.gov |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>
* '''1988''' - [[Suisun Marsh]] salinity control gates start up.<ref>{{cite web |title=Delta History in Summary |url=https://www.snugharbor.net/delta_history-timeline.htm |website=snugharbor.net |access-date=21 February 2020 |archive-date=September 4, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190904125734/http://www.snugharbor.net/delta_history-timeline.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* May 28 - 2nd Dry year starting to impact CVP water supply<ref>{{cite news |title=Second critically dry year taking toll on state Authorities say water conservation is vita |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19880528.2.225&srpos=30&e=------198-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |page=E1 |publisher=Palm Springs Desert Sun |date=28 May 1988}}</ref>
* '''1989''' - EPA lists Sacramento River Chinook salmon as threatened<ref>{{cite web |title=Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Chronology |url=https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/sacramento-san-joaquin-delta-chronology |website=watereducation.org |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>
* Feb 16 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] announces 25-50% reduction in water availability due to 3 year drought<ref>{{cite news |title=Reclamation Announces CVP Water Supply |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19890216.2.13&srpos=17&e=------198-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |volume=85 |issue=28 |page=4 |publisher=Calexico Chronicle |date=16 February 1989}}</ref>
* May 3 - USBR investigation of expanding Tehama-Colusa Canal<ref>{{cite news |title=YOLO COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT STUDIES TEHAMA-COLUSA CANAL WATER SUPPLY |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=WSN19890503.2.92&srpos=6&e=------198-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=18 |page=8 |publisher=West Sacramento News-ledger, Volume 26 |date=3 May 1989}}</ref>
* June 23 - PG&E loses court case over its refusal to transmit power to public agencies<ref>{{cite news |title=City could benefit from PG&E dispute |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=HTES19890623.2.7&e=------198-en--20-HTES-1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=7 November 2019 |issue=71 |page=1 |publisher=Healdsburg Tribune, Enterprise and Scimitar |date=23 June 1989}}</ref>
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* '''1990''' Feb 16 - 4th year of drought expected to cause cutbacks in water to users<ref>{{cite news |title=Federal water deliveries may be cut In half |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19900216.1.6&srpos=65&e=------199-en--20--61-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=134 |issue=41 |page=6 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=16 February 1990}}</ref> 
* Jul 15 - $150 million environmental CVP legislation angers farmers and PG&E<ref>{{cite news |title=Measure to save fish putting allies at odds |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19900715.1.11&srpos=60&e=------199-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=134 |issue=169 |page=11 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=15 July 1990}}</ref>
* '''1991''' - [[California State Water Resources Control Board|State Water Board]] produces Bay-Delta salinity control plan but partially [https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/documents/epa-approval-disapproval-baydelta-wqcp-1991.pdf rejected by the EPA]
*  Construction completed on four south Delta pumping facilities<ref>{{cite web |title=State Facilities - Pumping Plants |url=https://water.ca.gov/Programs/State-Water-Project/SWP-Facilities |website=water.ca.gov |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>
* Jan 30 - 800 attend statewide meeting on water crisis solutions<ref>{{cite news |title=State water rationing battles get under way |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19910130.1.1&srpos=55&e=------199-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=135 |issue=30 |page=1 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=30 January 1991}}</ref>
* Feb 13 - Water Rights issue grow as 5th year of drought calls for 50% farm water cutbacks<ref>{{cite news |title=WATER RIGHTS Mandatory Water Restrictions If State Board Cuts Back Supply |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=WSN19910213.2.7&srpos=49&e=------199-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=28 |issue=7 |page=5 |publisher=West Sacramento News-ledger |date=13 February 1991}}</ref>
* Feb 15 - Water crisis worst since 1945, CVP to drain all reservoirs with up 75% restrictions in use<ref>{{cite news |title=State reservoirs to be exhausted |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19910215.1.1&srpos=48&e=------199-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=135 |issue=45 |page=1 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=15 February 1991}}</ref>
* Mar 16 - Recent storms reduce water crisis but orders for reduced use to hold<ref>{{cite news |title=Water officials will bank rainfall, keep rationing |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19910316.1.5&srpos=44&e=------199-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=135 |issue=74 |page=5 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=16 March 1991}}</ref>
* '''1992''' - The Central Valley Project Improvement Act<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) |url=https://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvpia/ |website=usbr.gov |publisher=U.S. Government |access-date=9 November 2019}}</ref> mandated the balancing of water, pricing and distribution policies<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Valley Project Improvement Act |url=https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/central-valley-project-improvement-act |website=Water Education Foundation |access-date=3 November 2019}}</ref>
* Jan 1 - U.S. Corps of Engineers releases environmental plan for 3,400 acre Yolo Country wildlife refuge<ref>{{cite news |title=Corps releases wetlands study |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=WSN19920101.2.15&srpos=41&e=------199-en--20--41-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=29 |issue=1 |page=4 |publisher=West Sacramento News-ledger |date=1 January 1992}}</ref>
* Feb 13 - Bush administration submits $906 million [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] budget for 1993 including CVP<ref>{{cite news |title=President's FY 1993 Budget Requests $906 Million for Bureau of Reclamation's Water Resources Development and Management Programs. |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19920213.2.16&srpos=40&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=89 |issue=30 |page=3 |publisher=Calexico Chronicle |date=13 February 1992}}</ref>
* Oct 30 - Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 199—Public Law 102-575<ref>{{cite web |title=Digest of Federal Resource Laws of Interest to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |url=https://www.fws.gov/laws/lawsdigest/RECPROJ.HTML |website=FWS.gov |publisher=US Fish and Wildlife Service |access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref>
* Nov 18 - New federal legislation will give Yolo and Solano County CVP water<ref>{{cite news |title=New water rights law |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=WSN19921118.2.29&srpos=39&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=29 |issue=47 |page=4 |publisher=West Sacramento News-ledger |date=18 November 1992}}</ref>
* '''1993''' - A documented [[indicator species]], the [[Delta smelt]] is listed as threatened (goes to endangered in 2009)<ref name="Ca Dept. of Wildlife">{{cite web |title=Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus |url=https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Fishes/Delta-Smelt |website=wildlife.ca.gov |publisher=Ca Dept. of Wildlife |access-date=17 November 2019}}</ref> 
* 1993 - Save San Francisco Bay Association's Barry Nelson calls the CVP "the biggest single environmental disaster ever to strike California."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nelson |first1=Barry |title=California Water Resources Oral History series |url=https://archive.org/details/passagecentralvalley00nelsrich/page/n181 |website=Archive.org |year=1994 |publisher=UC Bancroft Library |access-date=21 November 2019}}</ref>
* Feb 18 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] open new office to oversee 1992 CVP Improvement Act<ref>{{cite news |title=NEW OFFICE OPENS TO OVERSEE CVP |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CC19930218.2.39&srpos=38&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=90 |issue=29 |page=9 |publisher=Calexico Chronicle |date=18 February 1993}}</ref> 
* Dec 17 - Governor Wilson attacks federal plans to withhold water for environment<ref>{{cite news |title=Wilson wages water wars with Washington |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19931217.1.8&srpos=36&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=136 |issue=346 |page=8 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=17 December 1993}}</ref>
* '''1994''' Feb 16 - Drought response results in 2/3rd cut in farm waters<ref>{{cite news |title=Critically dry year' forces cuts in water deliveries to farmers |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19940216.1.6&srpos=31&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=137 |issue=46 |page=6 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=16 February 1994}}</ref>
* Apr 10 - Judge blocks attempt to sell CVP water to mining company<ref>{{cite news |title=Senate considers measure to preserve California desert |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19940410.1.49&srpos=28&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=137 |issue=99 |page=49 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=10 April 1994}}</ref> 
* Sep 19 - Pajaro Valley loses 19,000 acre feet of CVP water due to legal technicality<ref>{{cite news |title=The Pajaro Valley needs an act of Congress to hang onto a crucial water source |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19940919.1.2&srpos=27&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=138 |issue=258 |page=2 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=19 September 1994}}</ref>
* '''1995''' Jul 18 - [[Folsom Dam]] gate breaks releasing half million acre feet of water<ref>{{cite news |title=Dam gate breaks in Folsom |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19950718.1.6&srpos=26&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |agency=Associated Press |volume=139 |issue=196 |page=6 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=18 July 1995}}</ref>
* '''1996''' Oct 12 - Pajaro Valley water agency decides to buy $5.6 million in CVP water rights<ref>{{cite news |title=PV buying Central Valley water rights |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19961012.1.2&srpos=20&e=------199-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=139 |issue=282 |page=2 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=12 October 1996}}</ref>
* Dec 21 - Kern County plan to sell 22 billion gallons of water to L.A. starts water war<ref>{{cite news |title=Water Wars - Farmers Vow to Fight $22 Million LA Deal |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19961221.1.24&srpos=19&e=------199-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=139 |issue=351 |page=24 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=21 December 1996}}</ref>
* '''1997''' - $80 million temperature controlled fish protection support added to Shasta dam<ref>{{cite web |title=Shasta Dam Temperature Control Device |url=http://somerseteng.com/project-gallery/shasta-dam-temperature-control-device/ |website=somerseteng.com |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>
* Sept 13 - [[Cadillac Desert]] author supports more subsidies to farmers<ref>{{cite news |title='Cadillac Desert' author urges farming incentives |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19970913.1.17&srpos=17&e=------199-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=140 |issue=253 |page=17 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=13 September 1997}}</ref>
* Dec 14 - Proposal to sell Friant dam water to L.A. reduced to just excess flow years<ref>{{cite news |title=L.A. water deal approved |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19971214.1.11&srpos=15&e=------199-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=140 |issue=344 |page=11 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=14 December 1997}}</ref>
* '''1998''' May 29 - Measure D in Pajaro Valley alternative to CVP plan attacked for conservation and small dams<ref>{{cite news |title=Pajaro Measure D should be rejected |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19980529.1.11&srpos=2&e=------199-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=8 November 2019 |volume=141 |issue=147 |page=11 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=29 May 1998}}</ref>
* Jun 3 - Measure D passes, effectively ending plan to import CVP water into Pajaro Valley<ref>{{cite news |title=Measure D approval halts pipeline |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS19980603.1.3&srpos=24&e=------199-en--20--21-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22measure+D%22-------1 |access-date=9 November 2019 |volume=141 |issue=152 |page=3 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=3 June 1998}}</ref>
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* '''2000''' - [[Westlands Water District]] sues the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] over drainage promises and wins $2.6 billion agreement<ref>{{cite web |title=Central Valley Project: Court Orders Feds to Build Agricultural Irrigation Drain |url=http://www.cp-dr.com/articles/node-1344 |website=cp-dr.com |access-date=16 November 2019}}</ref>
* Jun 9 - $450 million water plan proposed by Governor Davis includes raising Shasta dam height<ref>{{cite news |title=Underground storage seen as key to assuring water supply |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS20000609.1.6&srpos=19&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=11 November 2019 |volume=143 |issue=160 |page=6 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=9 June 2000}}</ref>
* '''2002''' Feb 13 - Appeal of court ruling taking CVP water from fish and environment<ref>{{cite news |title=Water Ruling Favoring Farmers Draw Protest |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS20020213.1.4&srpos=16&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=11 November 2019 |volume=146 |issue=43 |page=4 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=13 February 2002}}</ref>
* Jul 17 - Westlands wants feds to buy contaminated land for $500 million<ref>{{cite news |title=Feds near deal to buy salt-poisoned California farmland |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS20021117.1.8&srpos=14&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=11 November 2019 |volume=146 |issue=320 |page=8 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=17 November 2002}}</ref>
* '''2004''' - [[CALFED Bay-Delta Program|CalFed]] budget zeroed out for fifth year in a row as attempts to find common ground fail<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Collin |title=Has the ambitious CalFed water-supply plan run aground? |url=https://www.eenews.net/stories/69000 |access-date=24 November 2019 |agency=eenews.net |date=17 September 2008}}</ref>
* Apr 22 - Editorial: death of 34,000 fish on Klamath impacts [[Hupa]] tribe<ref>{{cite news |title=The rich get wetter while California dries up Fishing for equity in water-rights controversy |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=EXP20040422.1.3&srpos=11&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=11 November 2019 |page=3 |publisher=The Sacramento Express |date=22 April 2004}}</ref> 
* Jul 14 - Court order allows for protection of fish in Trinity River<ref>{{cite news |title=Court OKs increased flows to Trinity River |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS20040714.1.10&srpos=10&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=11 November 2019 |volume=148 |issue=196 |page=10 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=14 July 2004}}</ref>
* '''2005''' Mar 16 - CVP water resold by users as 200,000 acres in Westland's too toxic for growing<ref>{{cite news |title=As poisoned farmland abandoned, districts profit on water rights |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCS20050316.1.19&srpos=9&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=11 November 2019 |volume=149 |issue=74 |page=19 |work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |date=16 March 2005}}</ref>
* '''2006''' - San Joaquin water flows restored to protect fish<ref>{{cite web |last1=Grantham |first1=T.E. |last2=Moyle |first2=P.B. |title=Assessing flows for fish below dams: A systematic approach to evaluate compliance with California Fish and Game Code 5937 |url=https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/library/assessing-flows-fish-below-dams-systematic-approach-evaluate-compliance-california-fish-and |website=watershed.ucdavis.edu/library |publisher=UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences |access-date=4 February 2020 |archive-date=February 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204163741/https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/library/assessing-flows-fish-below-dams-systematic-approach-evaluate-compliance-california-fish-and |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
* '''2007''' May 25 - Federal court overturns [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service|U.S. Fish and Wildlife's]] 2005 opinion that increased CVP water take would not endanger Smelt<ref>{{cite web |title=506 F. Supp. 2d 322 (2007) NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Dirk KEMPTHORNE |url=http://www.ecases.us/case/caed/c1653985/natural-resources-defense-council-v-kempthorne |website=ecases.us |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* Oct 25 - "Racanelli Decision" - Judge decides in favor of Aug. 1978 decision (1485) compelling USBR and [[California Department of Water Resources|DWR]] adhere to the [[California State Water Resources Control Board|State Water Resources Control Board]]'s water quality standards<ref>{{cite web |title=Racanelli Decision: Detailed summary of the decision |url=https://cawaterlibrary.net/document/racanelli-decision-detailed-summary-of-the-decision/ |website=cawaterlibrary.net/ |access-date=4 February 2020}}</ref>
* '''2008''' - Central Valley Project Improvement Act's fisheries program conducts [http://calsport.org/fisheriesblog/?p=322 "Listen to the River"] independent peer review
* Apr 9 - CVP's Lewiston dam predicted to have a normal reservoir levels for year<ref>{{cite news |title=River to Have Peak Flow of 6,000 CFS |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=TJ20080409.1.1&srpos=8&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=1 |publisher=Trinity Journal |date=9 April 2008}}</ref> 
* Aug 9 - The [https://www.kcwa.com/ Kern County Water Agency] buys state water for as cheap as $28 and sells it for up to $200 and acre<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taugher |first1=Mike |title=Harvest of cash: Kern County agency buys public water low, sells high |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/08/09/harvest-of-cash-kern-county-agency-buys-public-water-low-sells-high/ |access-date=5 January 2020 |publisher=East Bay Times |date=9 August 2008}}</ref>
* '''2009''' - A documented [[indicator species]], the [[Delta smelt]] is listed under the [[Endangered Species Act of 1973|ESA]] as endangered (listed as threatened in 1993)<ref name="Ca Dept. of Wildlife"/>
* Mar 11 - Drought fears recede after recent rain bring CVP's [[Lewiston Dam (California)|Lewiston dam]] up to 59% of normal<ref>{{cite news |title=Low Trinity Lake level causes Bureau to switch turbines |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=TJ20090311.1.1&srpos=6&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=1 |publisher=Trinity Journal |date=11 March 2009}}</ref>
* May 24 - How the Ca. Dept. of Water Resources lost control of the Kern Country Water Bank<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taugher |first1=Mike |title=Gaming the Water System |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/05/24/gaming-the-water-system/ |access-date=5 January 2020 |publisher=East Bay Times |date=24 May 2009}}</ref>
* Jun 5 - [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] releases 4 year study on fish impacts<ref>{{cite news |title=CVP pumping changes to protect fish |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=TJ20090610.1.5&srpos=4&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=5 |publisher=Trinity Journal |date=10 June 2009}}</ref>
* Oct 7 - Trinity County protests USBR's petition to extend state water rights to 2030<ref>{{cite news |title=County protests water rights request |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=TJ20091007.1.1&srpos=2&e=------200-en--20--1-byDA.rev-txt-txIN-%22central+valley+project%22-------1 |access-date=10 November 2019 |page=1 |publisher=Trinity Journal |date=7 October 2009}}</ref>
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* '''2010''' Jun 3 - Environmental groups file a lawsuit seeking to block a secret backroom deal – known as the "Monterey Amendments"<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bacher |first1=Dan |title=Groups File Lawsuit to Block Backroom Water Deal |url=https://truthout.org/articles/groups-file-lawsuit-to-block-backroom-water-deal/ |access-date=5 January 2020 |publisher=truthout.org |date=17 June 2010}}</ref>
* Dec 15 - The release of the [[California Water Fix and Eco Restore|Bay Delta Conservation Plan]], or the reincarnation of peripheral canal is immediately opposed by environmental groups<ref>{{cite web |title=Bay Delta Conservation Plan Has Major Flaws |url=https://www.edf.org/news/bay-delta-conservation-plan-has-major-flaws |website=EDF.org |date=December 15, 2010 |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* '''2012''' Mar 2 - Court of Appeals ends thirteen year legal battle between Westlands and Interior Dept in government's favor<ref>{{cite web |title=San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority v. United States, 672 F.3d 676 (9th Cir. 2012) |url=https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/624038/san-luis-delta-mendota-water-authority-v-united-states/ |website=courtlistener.com |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* '''2014''' May 14 - 10% of all California goes to Almond production<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holthaus |first1=Eric |title=The Thirsty West: 10 Percent of California's Water Goes to Almond Farming |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/05/_10_percent_of_california_s_water_goes_to_almond_farming.html |access-date=5 January 2020 |publisher=Slate |date=14 May 2014}}</ref>
* Nov 4 - After 5 years of reworking,  the public okays $510 million in state water funding<ref>{{cite web |title=California Proposition 1, Water Bond (2014) |url=https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014) |website=ballotpedia |access-date=24 November 2019}}</ref>
* '''2015''' Jan 27 - Harvard University has bought 10,000 acres California land for Wine production and water speculation<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nelson |first1=Libby |title=Why Harvard owns 10,000 acres of California vineyards |url=https://www.vox.com/2015/1/27/7924109/harvard-endowment-vineyards |access-date=5 January 2020 |publisher=Vox |date=27 January 2015}}</ref>
* Apr 21 - California Almond production is using over 1 trillion gallons of agricultural water<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mendoza |first1=Menchie |title=Don't Go Nuts: Almonds Use 1.07 Trillion Gallons Of Water — Causing California Drought? |url=https://www.techtimes.com/articles/47370/20150421/dont-go-nuts-almonds-use-1-07-trillion-gallons-of-water-and-causing-california-drought.htm |access-date=5 January 2020 |publisher=Tech Times |date=21 April 2015}}</ref> 
* Sep 11 - [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|USBR]] announces agreement with Westlands water contract and drainage controversy<ref>{{cite web |title=U.S. ready to resolve Westlands water dispute in San Joaquin Valley |url=https://huffman.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/us-ready-to-resolve-westlands-water-dispute-in-san-joaquin-valley |website=Huffman.house.gov |access-date=22 November 2019}}</ref>
* '''2017''' Jan 3 - HR 23 Central Valley Project Water Reliability introduced and passed by house fails in senate would have stripped all CVP environmental protections<ref>{{cite web |title=Gaining Responsibility on Water Act of 2017 |url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr23 |website=govtrack.us |access-date=29 November 2019}}</ref>
* Feb 17 - CVP's Oroville Dam spillway water levels result in 180,000 people forced to evacuate<ref>{{cite web |title=What the Oroville Dam crisis tells us about natural infrastructure |url=http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2017/02/15/what-the-oroville-dam-crisis-tells-us-about-natural-infrastructure/ |website=edf.org |date=February 15, 2017 |publisher=Environmental Defense Fund |access-date=21 November 2019}}</ref>
* Mar 17 - House republicans invoke the "God Squad" option of the [[Endangered Species Act Amendments of 1978]] to overturn water limits caused by the endangered Smelt<ref>{{cite news |title="God Squad" Invoked Against Endangered California Fish in House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing |url=https://bayplanningcoalition.org/2016/03/god-squad-invoked-against-endangered-california-fish-in-house-interior-appropriations-subcommittee-hearing/ |access-date=24 November 2019 |publisher=bayplanningcoalition.org |date=17 March 2016}}</ref>
* Jun 10 - Trump admin proposes selling off all grid assets of the [[Power Marketing Administration]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Co-ops Battle Power Marketer Sell-Off |url=https://www.electric.coop/power-marketing-administration-co-op-battle/ |access-date=29 November 2019 |publisher=electric.coop |date=10 June 2017}}</ref>
* '''2018''' - Congress set aside $20 million to raise Shasta dam by 18.5' or an additional 636,000 acre feet of water a year<ref>{{cite web |title=Shasta Dam |url=https://www.watereducation.org/aquapedia/shasta-dam |website=Water Education Foundation |access-date=3 November 2019}}</ref>
* '''2019''' Aug 1 - Meeting to start new Delta Tunnel by state agencies held<ref>{{cite news |title=New Delta tunnel project begins taking shape |url=https://www.thepress.net/news/new-delta-tunnel-project-begins-taking-shape/article_9d7dd48c-b47a-11e9-b6f0-4f659703d471.html |access-date=24 November 2019 |publisher=Brentwood the Press |date=1 August 2019}}</ref>
* Sep 8 - Westlands Irrigation District appeals court decision to block raising height of CVP's Shasta dam<ref>{{cite news |title=Shasta Dam case appealed to California Supreme Court |url=https://www.redding.com/story/news/2019/09/08/shasta-dam-case-appealed-california-supreme-court/2259163001/ |access-date=24 November 2019 |publisher=Redding Record Searchlight |date=8 September 2019}}</ref>
* Aug 21 - Trump admin suppresses report on dangers to [[Steelhead and salmon distinct population segments|Steelhead Salmon]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boxall |first1=Bettina |title=Suppressed federal report shows how Trump water plan would endanger California salmon |url=https://phys.org/pdf485611390.pdf |access-date=24 November 2019 |publisher=Physics.org |date=21 August 2019}}</ref>
* Oct 23 - Dept. of Interior changes water rules in favor of farmers<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fimrite |first1=Peter |title=Federal officials rejigger rules on water deliveries — some say at expense of fish |url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/environment/article/Federal-officials-rejigger-rules-on-water-14554742.php#photo-16047515 |access-date=24 November 2019 |publisher=SF Chronicle |date=23 October 2019}}</ref>
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* '''2020''' - Jan 1 - No Smelt [[Bioindicator|indicator species]] found in the Sacramento Delta for last 2 years<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bacher |first1=Dan |title=Zero Delta Smelt Found in CA Department of Fish and Wildlife Survey Two Years in a Row |url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/1/1908944/-Zero-Delta-Smelt-Found-in-CA-Department-of-Fish-and-Wildlife-Survey-Two-Years-in-a-Row |website=Daily Kos |access-date=5 January 2020}}</ref>
* Feb 20 - President Trump signs [[Record of Decision]] on federal biological opinions<ref>{{cite web |title=Endangered Species Conservation Biological Opinions Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultations |url=https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/endangered-species-conservation/biological-opinions |website=fisheries.noaa.gov |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=USBR Delta Office 2019 Biological Opinions |url=https://www.usbr.gov/mp/bdo/lto/biop.html |website=usbr.gov |access-date=21 February 2020 |archive-date=February 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200221180638/https://www.usbr.gov/mp/bdo/lto/biop.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Water Project Biological Opinions ("OCAP") |url=https://www.fws.gov/sfbaydelta/CVP-SWP/index.htm |website=fws.gov |access-date=21 February 2020}}</ref>
* Feb 29 - Seventy five project customers, including the large [[Westlands Water District]], received permanent federal water contracts<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bacher |first1=Dan |title=California's Westlands Water District signs permanent water contract with Bureau of Reclamation |url=http://redgreenandblue.org/2020/02/29/californias-westlands-water-district-signs-permanent-water-contract-bureau-reclamation/ |access-date=2 March 2020 |publisher=redgreenandblue.org |date=29 February 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2020-02-28/westlands-water-district-gets-permanent-u-s-contract-for-massive-irrigation-deliveries|title=Westlands Water District gets permanent U.S. contract for massive irrigation deliveries|last=Boxall|first=Bettina|date=2020-02-29|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Bureau of Reclamation Completes First Group of Congressionally-Mandated California Central Valley Project Contract Conversions|url=https://goldrushcam.com/sierrasuntimes/index.php/news/local-news/22216-bureau-of-reclamation-completes-first-group-of-congressionally-mandated-california-central-valley-project-contract-conversions|work=Sierra Sun Times|date=March 2, 2010|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref>

== Facilities in the Sacramento Valley ==

=== Sacramento River ===
[[File:6507-ShastaLakeFull.jpg|thumb|left|Shasta Dam, with Shasta Lake at its highest level, July 1965]]
Shasta Division consists of a pair of large dams on the [[Sacramento River]] north of the city of [[Redding, California|Redding]].<ref name="shastatrinity">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Shasta/Trinity%20River%20Division%20Project |title=Shasta/Trinity River Divisions |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Central Valley Project |date=2009-08-27 |access-date=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222212059/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Shasta%2FTrinity%20River%20Division%20Project |archive-date=2013-02-22 }}</ref> The [[Shasta Dam]] is the primary water storage and power generating facility of the CVP. It impounds the Sacramento River to form [[Shasta Lake]], which can store over {{convert|4500000|acre.ft|dam3}} of water, and can generate 680 MW of power.<ref name="ShastaDam">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Shasta%20Dam |title=Shasta Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Shasta Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=September 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925130228/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Shasta%20Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/shasta/shasta.html |title=Shasta Powerplant |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401081847/http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/shasta/shasta.html |archive-date=April 1, 2009 }}</ref> Shasta Dam functions to regulate the flow of the Sacramento River so that downstream diversion dams and canals can capture the flow of the river more efficiently, and to prevent flooding in the [[Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta]] where many water pump facilities for San Joaquin Valley aqueducts are located.<ref name="shastatrinity"/> The [[Keswick Dam]] functions as an afterbay (regulating reservoir) for the Shasta Dam, also generating power.<ref name="Keswick">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Keswick+Dam |title=Keswick Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Shasta Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=November 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112094731/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Keswick+Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/keswick/keswick.html|title=Keswick Powerplant|access-date=2009-04-14|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080503230017/http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/keswick/keswick.html |archive-date = May 3, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Sacramento Canals Division of the CVP takes water from the Sacramento River much farther downstream of the Shasta and Keswick Dams. [[Diversion dam]]s, pumping plants, and aqueducts provide municipal water supply as well as irrigation of about {{convert|100000|acre|dam2}}.<ref name="sacramentocanals">{{cite web |url=https://www.usbr.gov/projects/pdf.php?id=105|title=Sacramento River Division
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Central Valley Project |date=1994
|access-date=2016-12-28}}</ref> The [[Red Bluff Diversion Dam]] diverts part of the Sacramento River<ref name="RedBluff">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Red%20Bluff%20Diversion%20Dam |title=Red Bluff Diversion Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Sacramento Canals Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=September 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925130055/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Red%20Bluff%20Diversion%20Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref> into the {{convert|110|mi|km|adj=on}} Tehama-Colusa Canal, the {{convert|21|mi|km|adj=on}} Corning Canal and a small reservoir formed by Funks Dam.<ref name="Funks">{{cite web |url=https://www.usbr.gov/projects/index.php?id=139 |title=Funks Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Sacramento Canals Division
|date=2009-06-04}}</ref>  Six pump plants take water from the canal and feed it to the [[Colusa County, California|Colusa County]] water distribution grid.<ref name="sacramentocanals"/>

=== Trinity River ===
[[File:2013, Drainage Ditch, Friant-Kern Canal, Central Valley Project Irrigation System - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Drainage ditch in Central Valley Project<ref>{{Citation|last=English|first=Chris|title=2013, Drainage Ditch, Friant-Kern Canal, Central Valley Project Irrigation System|date=2013-12-09|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013,_Drainage_Ditch,_Friant-Kern_Canal,_Central_Valley_Project_Irrigation_System_-_panoramio.jpg|access-date=2018-04-20}}</ref>]]
Water diversions from northern rivers in the state remain controversial due to environmental damage. Trinity River Division is the second largest CVP department for the northern Sacramento Valley. The primary purpose of the division is to divert water from the [[Trinity River (California)|Trinity River]] into the Sacramento River drainage downstream of Shasta Dam in order to provide more flow in the Sacramento River and generating [[peaking power]] in the process.<ref name="shastatrinity"/> [[Trinity Dam]] forms [[Trinity Lake]],<ref name="TrinityDam">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Trinity+Dam |title=Trinity Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Trinity River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=November 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112100241/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Trinity+Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref> the second largest CVP water-storage reservoir, with just over half the capacity of Shasta<ref name="shastatrinity"/> and a generating capacity of 140 MW.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/trinity/trinity.html|title=Trinity Powerplant |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation|access-date=2009-04-14 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080503230035/http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/trinity/trinity.html |archive-date = May 3, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Lewiston Dam (California)|Lewiston Dam]], downstream of Trinity Dam, diverts water into the Clear Creek Tunnel,<ref name="Lewiston">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Lewiston+Dam |title=Lewiston Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Trinity River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=November 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112093657/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Lewiston+Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref> which travels to empty into a third reservoir, [[Whiskeytown Lake]] on [[Clear Creek (Sacramento River)|Clear Creek]], a tributary of the Sacramento River, generating 154 MW of power in the process.<ref name="shastatrinity"/> Whiskeytown Lake (formed by Clair. A Hill Whiskeytown Dam<ref name="Whiskeytown">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Whiskeytown+Dam |title=Whiskeytown Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Trinity River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16}}</ref>) in turn provides water to the Spring Creek Tunnel, which travels into the lowermost extreme of Spring Creek, a stream that flows into Keswick Reservoir, generating another 180 MW of electricity. From there the water from the Trinity River empties into Keswick Reservoir and the Sacramento River. In 1963, the [[Spring Creek Debris Dam]] was constructed just upstream of the outlet of the Spring Creek Tunnel, to prevent [[acid mine drainage]] from the [[Iron Mountain Mine]] from continuing downstream and contaminating the river.<ref name="SpringCreek">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Spring+Creek+Debris+Dam |title=Spring Creek Debris Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Trinity River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613135850/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Spring+Creek+Debris+Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== American River ===
[[File:Folsom dam usbr.jpg|thumb|right|Folsom Dam spilling during a flood]]
The American River Division is located in north-central California, on the east side of the Great Central Valley. Its structures use the water of the [[American River]], which drains off the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]] and flows into the [[Sacramento River]]. The division is further divided into three units: the Folsom, Sly Park and Auburn-Folsom South. The American River Division stores water in the American River watershed, to both provide water supply for local settlements, and supply it to the rest of the system. The dams also are an important flood control measure. [[Hydroelectricity]] is generated at Folsom and Nimbus dams, and marketed to the [[Western Area Power Administration]].<ref name="folsomslypark">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Folsom%20and%20Sly%20Park%20Units%20Project |title=Folsom and Sly Park Units |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Central Valley Project |date=2009-09-01 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112081743/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Folsom%20and%20Sly%20Park%20Units%20Project |archive-date=November 12, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The Folsom Unit consists of [[Folsom Dam]], its primary water storage component, and [[Nimbus Dam]], which serves as its downstream forebay.<ref name="folsomslypark"/> The Folsom Dam is located on the American River, and stores {{convert|1010000|acre.ft|dam3}} of water in its reservoir, [[Folsom Lake]]. Folsom Lake covers {{convert|11550|acre}} and is located inside the [[Folsom Lake State Recreational Area]].<ref name="Folsom">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Folsom%20Dam |title=Folsom Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=American River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613135900/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Folsom%20Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref> Eight additional earth fill saddle dams are required to keep the reservoir from overflowing. The dam also generates 200 MW from three generators.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/folsom/folsom.html|title=Folsom Powerplant|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation|access-date=2009-04-11|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080303233602/http://www.usbr.gov/power/data/sites/folsom/folsom.html |archive-date = March 3, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> About {{convert|7|mi|abbr=on}} downstream of Folsom Dam is the [[Nimbus Dam]], forming [[Lake Natoma]].<ref name="Nimbus">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Nimbus+Dam&groupName=General |title=Nimbus Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=American River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16}}</ref> The dam generates 7.7 MW from two [[Kaplan turbine]]s on the north side of the river. The ''[[Nimbus Fish Hatchery]]'' is located downstream of Nimbus Dam, to compensate for the two dams' destruction of American River spawning grounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.recreation.gov/detail.cfm?ID=26 |title=Nimbus Fish Hatchery |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926044213/http://www.recreation.gov/detail.cfm?ID=26 |archive-date=September 26, 2006 }}</ref>

[[File:Slyparkdam.jpg|thumb|right|Sly Park Dam (left) and auxiliary dam (right)]]
The Sly Park Unit includes [[Sly Park Dam]], Jenkinson Lake, the Camp Creek Diversion Dam, and two diversion tunnels. The Sly Park Dam and its similarly-sized auxiliary dam form Jenkinson Lake, which covers {{convert|650|acre}}.<ref name="SlyPark">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Sly+Park+Dam&groupName=Overview |title=Sly Park Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=American River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613135921/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Sly+Park+Dam&groupName=Overview |url-status=dead }}</ref> Jenkinson Lake feeds the Camino Conduit, a {{convert|5|mi|abbr=on}} [[aqueduct (watercourse)|aqueduct]].<ref name="folsomslypark"/> The Camp Creek Diversion Dam diverts some water from Camp Creek into Jenkinson Lake.<ref name="CampCreek">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Camp+Creek+Diversion+Dam |title=Camp Creek Diversion Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=American River Division |date=2009-06-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613135937/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Camp+Creek+Diversion+Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The third unit is the [[Auburn-Folsom South Unit]], consisting of several dams on American River tributaries. These include [[Sugar Pine Dam]] and Pipeline (supplying water to [[Foresthill, California|Foresthill]]), and the uncompleted Folsom South Canal.<ref name="auburnfolsom">{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Auburn-Folsom%20South%20Unit%20Project |title=Auburn-Folsom South Unit |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |author=Central Valley Project |date=2009-08-31 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921004246/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Auburn-Folsom%20South%20Unit%20Project |archive-date=September 21, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The primary component of the unit, concrete thin-arch [[Auburn Dam]], was to be located on the North Fork of the American, but was never built because of the significant risk of earthquakes in the area, and general public opposition to the project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geoengineer.org/auburn.htm|title=Auburn Dam|publisher=geoengineer.org|access-date=2009-04-11}}</ref> However, the high [[Foresthill Bridge]], built as part of the preliminary work for Auburn Dam, still stands. County Line Dam, about {{convert|10|mi|km}} south of Folsom Dam, was also never built.<ref name="auburnfolsom"/>

== Facilities in the San Joaquin Valley ==

=== Delta and canal system ===
One of the most important parts of the CVP's San Joaquin Valley water system is the series of aqueducts and pumping plants that take water from the [[Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta]] and send it southwards to supply farms and cities.<ref name="Delta">{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Delta%20Division%20Project
 |title       = Delta Division
 |publisher   = U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
 |work        = Central Valley Project
 |date        = 2009-07-28
 |access-date  = 2010-01-16
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20110327122453/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Delta%20Division%20Project
 |archive-date = 2011-03-27
}}</ref> The [[Delta Cross Channel]] intercepts Sacramento River water as it travels westwards towards [[Suisun Bay]] and diverts it south through a series of man-made channels, the [[Mokelumne River]], and other natural sloughs, marshes and distributaries.<ref name="Delta"/> From there, the water travels to the [[C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant]], which raises water into the [[Delta-Mendota Canal]], which in turn travels {{convert|117|mi|km}} southwards to Mendota Pool on the San Joaquin River, supplying water to other CVP reservoirs about midway.<ref name="Delta"/> A facility exists at the entrance of the pump plant in order to catch fish that would otherwise end up in the Delta-Mendota Canal.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/tech_services/tracy_research/tracyfacility/MapSchematic.html
|title=Tracy Fish Collection Facility—Map and Schematic
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Tracy Research
|access-date=2010-01-16
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315150148/http://www.usbr.gov/pmts/tech_services/tracy_research/tracyfacility/MapSchematic.html
|archive-date=2010-03-15
}}</ref> A second canal, the [[Contra Costa Canal]], captures freshwater near the central part of the delta, taking it {{convert|48|mi|km}} southwards, distributing water to the Clayton and Ygnacio Canals in the process, and supplying water to Contra Loma Dam, eventually terminating at Martinez Reservoir.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Martinez%20Dam
|title=Martinez Dam
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Delta Division
|date=2009-06-04
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-date=June 13, 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613140211/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Martinez%20Dam
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

=== San Joaquin River ===
The CVP also has several dams on the [[San Joaquin River]]—which has far less average flow than the Sacramento—in order to divert its water to southern Central Valley aqueducts. The [[Friant Dam]], completed in 1942, is the largest component of the Friant Division of the CVP.<ref name="friantdiv">{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Friant%20Division%20Project
|title=Friant Division
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Central Valley Project
|date=2009-05-27
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112083924/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Friant%20Division%20Project
|archive-date=November 12, 2011
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The dam crosses the San Joaquin River where it spills out of the Sierra Nevada, forming [[Millerton Lake]],<ref name="FriantDam">{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=Friant%20Dam
|title=Friant Dam
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Friant Division
|date=2009-06-04
|access-date=2010-01-16}}</ref> which provides water storage for San Joaquin Valley irrigators as well as providing a diversion point for a pair of canals, the [[Friant-Kern Canal]] and the [[Madera Canal]]. The Friant-Kern Canal sends water southwards through the [[Tulare Lake]] area to its terminus at [[Bakersfield, California|Bakersfield]] on the [[Kern River]], supplying irrigation water to [[Tulare County, California|Tulare]], [[Fresno County, California|Fresno]], and [[Kern County, California|Kern]] counties.<ref name="friantdiv"/> The Madera Canal takes water northwards to [[Madera County, California|Madera County]], emptying into the [[Chowchilla River]].<ref name="friantdiv"/> The Central Valley also consisted of 500 miles of canals, providing the city dwellers and power sales from the generation of electricity pay of the project costs.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Great Thirst: Californians and Water|last=Norris|first=Hundley|publisher=University of California Press|year=1992|page=374}}</ref>

=== Stanislaus River ===
On the [[Stanislaus River]], a major tributary of the San Joaquin, lies the relatively independent East Side Division and New Melones Unit of the CVP.<ref name="eastsidediv">{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=New%20Melones%20Unit%20Project
|title=New Melones Unit
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Central Valley Project
|date=2009-06-17
|access-date=2010-01-16
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171905/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=New%20Melones%20Unit%20Project
|archive-date=2016-03-03
}}</ref> The sole component of the division/unit is [[New Melones Dam]], forming [[New Melones Lake]], which, when filled to capacity, holds nearly {{convert|2400000|acre.ft|dam3}} of water, about equal to the storage capacity of Trinity Lake.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=New%20Melones%20Dam
|title=New Melones Dam
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=New Melones Unit
|date=2008-11-05
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-date=June 13, 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613135952/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=New%20Melones%20Dam
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The dam functions to store water during dry periods and release it downstream into the northern San Joaquin Valley according to water demand. The dam generates 279 MW of power with a peaking capacity of 300 MW.<ref name="eastsidediv"/><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Powerplant.jsp?fac_Name=New%20Melones%20Powerplant
|title=New Melones Powerplant
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=New Melones Unit
|date=2009-05-13
|access-date=2010-01-16
|url-status=dead
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613140008/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Powerplant.jsp?fac_Name=New%20Melones%20Powerplant
|archive-date=2011-06-13
}}</ref>

=== Offstream storage and aqueducts ===
[[File:Wfm san luis reservoir landsat.jpg|thumb|right|Satellite photo of San Luis Reservoir and O'Neill Forebay]]
The CVP has a significant amount of facilities for storing and transporting water on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, in the foothills of the [[California Coast Ranges]]. The West San Joaquin Division and San Luis Unit consist of several major facilities that are shared with the federal [[California State Water Project]] (SWP).<ref name="sanluis">{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=San%20Luis%20Unit%20Project
|title=San Luis Unit
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Central Valley Project
|date=2009-06-17
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112091225/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=San%20Luis%20Unit%20Project
|archive-date=November 12, 2011
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> [[San Luis Dam]] (or B.F. Sisk Dam) is the largest storage facility, holding {{convert|2000000|acre.ft|dam3}} of water.<ref name="sanluis"/><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=B%20F%20Sisk%20Dam
|title=B.F. Sisk Dam
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=San Luis Unit
|date=2009-08-31
|access-date=2010-01-16}}</ref>
Although called an offstream storage reservoir by USBR, the reservoir floods part of the San Luis Creek valley. San Luis Creek, however, is not the primary water source for the reservoir. Downstream of San Luis Reservoir is [[O'Neill Forebay]], which is intersected by the [[Delta-Mendota Canal]], a separate CVP facility.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=O`Neill%20Dam
|title=O'Neill Dam
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=San Luis Unit
|date=2009-05-28
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230050/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=O%60Neill%20Dam
|archive-date=March 3, 2016
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> Water is pumped from the canal into the Forebay<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Powerplant.jsp?fac_Name=O%60Neill%20Powerplant
|title=O'Neill Powerplant
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=San Luis Unit
|date=2009-05-13
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-date=June 13, 2011
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613140028/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Powerplant.jsp?fac_Name=O%60Neill%20Powerplant
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> and uphill into San Luis Reservoir, which functions as an additional water source during dry periods.<ref name="sanluis"/>

Water released from San Luis and O'Neill reservoirs feeds into the San Luis Canal, the federally built section of the [[California Aqueduct]], which carries both CVP and SWP water. The San Luis Canal terminates at [[Kettleman City, California|Kettleman City]], where it connects with the state-built section of the California Aqueduct. With a capacity of {{convert|13100|cuft/s|m3/s}}, it is one of the largest irrigation canals in the United States.<ref name="sanluis"/> The Coalinga Canal (operated for USBR by the [[Westlands Water District]]) branches off the San Luis Canal towards the [[Coalinga, California|Coalinga]] area. A pair of separate dams, Los Baños Detention Dam and Little Panoche Detention Dam, provide flood control in the [[Los Baños, California|Los Baños]] area.<ref name="sanluis"/>  The San Luis Drain was a separate project by USBR in an attempt to keep contaminated irrigation drainage water out of the San Joaquin River, emptying into [[Kesterson Reservoir]] where the water would evaporate or seep into the ground. Because of environmental concerns, the system was never completed.<ref name="sanluis"/>

The CVP also operates a San Felipe Division to supply water to {{convert|63500|acre}} of land in the [[Santa Clara Valley]] west of the Coast Ranges.<ref name="sanfelipe">{{cite web
|url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=San%20Felipe%20Division%20Project
|title=San Felipe Division
|publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
|work=Central Valley Project
|date=2009-06-17
|access-date=2010-01-16
|archive-date=September 21, 2012
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921004217/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=San%20Felipe%20Division%20Project
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> [[San Justo Dam]] stores water diverted from San Luis Reservoir through the Pacheco Tunnel and Hollister Conduit, which travel through the [[Diablo Range]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=San%20Justo%20Dam |title=San Justo Dam |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=San Felipe Unit |date=2009-05-13 |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=June 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613140053/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Facility.jsp?fac_Name=San%20Justo%20Dam |url-status=dead }}</ref> A separate canal, the Santa Clara Tunnel and Conduit, carries water to the Santa Clara Valley.<ref name="sanfelipe"/>

== Environmental impacts ==
[[File:Redbluffdivdam.jpg|thumb|right|Red Bluff Diversion Dam on the Sacramento River once posed a significant barrier to salmon, steelhead and sturgeon migration. It has since been replaced with a pumping plant to improve fish passage.]]
Once, profuse runs of [[anadromous fish]]—[[salmon]], [[Rainbow trout|steelhead]], and others—migrated up the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers to spawn in great numbers. The construction of CVP dams on the two rivers and many of their major tributaries—namely [[Friant Dam]] and [[Shasta Dam]]—mostly ended the once-bountiful Central Valley salmon run. From north to south, the Sacramento upriver of Shasta Dam, the American upriver of Folsom Dam, the Stanislaus upriver of New Melones Dam, and the San Joaquin upriver of [[Mendota, California|Mendota]]—have become inaccessible to migrating salmon.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Williams |first=John G. |title=Appendix A: Major Salmon Streams |journal=San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science |issue=4 |date=2009-05-12
|doi=10.15447/sfews.2006v4iss3art2 |access-date=2010-01-16 |url=http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/21v9x1t7|doi-access=free }}</ref> In three of these cases, it is because the dams are too high and their reservoirs too large for fish to bypass via [[fish ladder]]s. The San Joaquin River, however, had a different fate. Almost {{convert|60|mi|abbr=on}} of the river is dry because of diversions from Friant Dam and [[Millerton Lake]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nrdc.org/water/conservation/sanjoaquin.asp |title=Restoring the San Joaquin River: Following a 187-year legal battle, a great California river once given up for dead is on the verge of a comeback |publisher=Natural Resources Defense Council |work=Issues:Water |access-date=2010-01-16}}</ref> Even downstream of Mendota, where the [[Delta-Mendota Canal]] gives the river a new surge of water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, irrigation runoff water, contaminated with [[pesticide]]s and [[fertilizer]], has caused the river to become heavily polluted. To make matters worse, efforts by the [[California Department of Fish and Game]] to route the San Joaquin salmon run into the [[Merced River]] in the 1950s failed, because the salmon did not recognize the Merced as their "home stream".<ref>{{cite book |editor=Lufkin, Alan |title=California's Salmon and Steelhead: The Struggle to Restore an Imperiled Resource |publisher=University of California Press |year=1991 |url=http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft209nb0qn;brand=eschol  |access-date=2010-01-15}}</ref>

Not only on the San Joaquin River have CVP facilities wreaked environmental havoc. On the Sacramento River, Red Bluff Diversion Dam in [[Tehama County, California|Tehama County]], while not as large or as impacting as Friant Dam, was once a barrier to the migration of anadromous fish. The original fish passage facilities of the dam continually experienced problems from the beginning of operation in 1966, and introduced species that prey on young [[Spawn (biology)|smolt]] often gather at the base of the dam, which reduced the population of outmigrating juvenile salmon into the Pacific.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hallock |first=Richard J. |title=Sacramento River System Salmon and Steelhead Problems and Enhancement Opportunities |publisher=California Advisory Committee on Salmon and Steelhead Trout |date=June 1987 }}</ref> The Red Bluff Diversion Dam has since been replaced with a fish screen and pumping plant, thus allowing unimpaired passage through Red Bluff.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/mp/rbfish/ |title=Red Bluff Fish Passage Improvement Project |access-date=2014-05-08 |archive-date=January 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220121105933/http://www.usbr.gov/mp/rbfish/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Further upstream, Keswick and Shasta Dams form total barriers to fish migration. Even out of the Central Valley watershed, the CVP's diversion of water from the [[Trinity River (California)|Trinity River]] from [[Lewiston Dam (California)|Lewiston Dam]] into [[Whiskeytown Lake]] has significantly hurt the [[Klamath River]] tributary's salmon run. Over three-quarters of the river's flow is diverted through the Clear Creek Tunnel and away from the Trinity River, causing the river below the dam to become warm, silty, shallow and slow-flowing, attributes that hurt young salmon.<ref>{{cite web |last=Weseloh |first=Thomas J. |url=http://www.fotr.org/newsletters/Sept09.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517185330/http://www.fotr.org/newsletters/Sept09.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-05-17 |title=The Trinity Reborn |publisher=Friends of the Trinity River |work=Friends of Trinity River Newsletter |date=September 2009 |access-date=2010-01-16 }}</ref> Furthermore, the [[Trinity Dam]] forms a blockade that prevents salmon from reaching about {{convert|109|mi|km}} of upriver spawning grounds. In the early years of the 21st century, the Bureau of Reclamation finally began to steadily increase the water flow downstream from Lewiston Dam. While providing less water for the CVP altogether, the new flow regime allows operations to meet the line drawn by Reclamation itself in 1952 stating that at least 48% of the river's natural flow must be left untouched in order for Trinity River salmon to survive.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bacher |first=Dan |url=http://www.fishsniffer.com/dbachere/050401elec.html |title=Electricity Emergency Relief Act Threatens Salmon Restoration |work=The Fish Sniffer |date=2009-05-04 |access-date=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104185500/http://www.fishsniffer.com/dbachere/050401elec.html |archive-date=2009-01-04 }}</ref> The lack of flow in the Trinity up to then was also a violation of the authorization that Congress made over the operation of the dam. The "...legislation required that enough be left in the Trinity for in-basin needs, including preservation of the salmon fishery."<ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=David |title=A temporary diversion |date=1999-07-04 |work=Times-Standard}}</ref>

In the early years of the 21st century, the Bureau of Reclamation studied the feasibility of raising Shasta Dam.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/mp/slwri/docs/area_inventory/01_inventory_rpt.pdf |title=Shasta Reservoir Area Inventory |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |date=February 2003 |access-date=2010-01-17 |archive-date=April 10, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410174849/http://www.usbr.gov/mp/slwri/docs/area_inventory/01_inventory_rpt.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> One of the proposed heights was {{convert|18.5|ft|m}} greater than its current size, thus increasing the storage capacity of Shasta Lake by {{convert|636000|acre.ft|dam3}}. The agency also proposed a smaller raise of {{convert|6.5|ft|abbr=on}} that would add {{convert|290000|acre.ft|dam3}}.<ref name="ShastaRaise">{{cite web |url=http://www.sacredland.org/PDFs/Shasta_Dam_Facts.pdf |title=Shasta Dam Raise and Reservoir Enlargement |publisher=Sacred Land Film Project |work=Friends of the River |date=2005-03-01 |access-date=2010-01-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718182505/http://www.sacredland.org/PDFs/Shasta_Dam_Facts.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-18 }}</ref> Previously, a {{convert|200|ft|abbr=on}} raise of the dam, increasing storage to {{convert|13890000|acre.ft|dam3}}, was considered, but deemed uneconomical. When Shasta Dam was first built, it was actually planned to be two hundred feet higher than it is now, but Reclamation stopped construction at its present height because of a shortage of materials and workers during [[World War II]]. The raising of the dam would further regulate and store more Sacramento River water for dry periods, thus benefiting the entire operations of the CVP, and also generating additional power. However, the proposed height increase was fought over for many reasons. Raising the dam would cost several hundred million dollars and raise the price of irrigation water from Shasta Lake. It would drown most of the remaining land belonging to the [[Winnemem Wintu]] tribe—90&nbsp;percent of whose land already lies beneath the surface of the lake—and flood several miles of the [[McCloud River]], protected under [[National Wild and Scenic River]] status.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wateradvocacy.org/id61.html |title=Raising Shasta Dam |publisher=Center for Water Advocacy |work=Winnemem Wintu Tribal Issues |access-date=2010-01-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326181724/http://www.wateradvocacy.org/id61.html |archive-date=March 26, 2012 }}</ref> Buildings, bridges, roads and other structures would have to be relocated. The added capacity of the reservoir would change flow fluctuations in the lower Sacramento River, and native fish populations, especially salmon, would suffer with the subsequent changes to the ecology of the river.<ref name="ShastaRaise"/>

[[File:Newmelonesdam1b.jpg|thumb|left|New Melones Dam, seen here with New Melones Lake beyond, is one of the most disputed operations of the CVP]]
[[New Melones Dam]] has come under even greater controversy than Shasta Dam, mainly because of the project's conflicts with federal and state limits and its impact on the watershed of the [[Stanislaus River]].<ref>{{cite web |last=West |first=James |url=http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/23-01/23-01-10.pdf |title=New Melones: Public Interpretation of the Archaeological-Historical Record |publisher=U.S. National Park Service |work=Cultural Resources Management |year=2000 |access-date=2010-01-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109063443/http://crm.cr.nps.gov/archive/23-01/23-01-10.pdf |archive-date=2009-01-09 }}</ref> The original Melones Dam, submerged underneath New Melones Lake (hence the name ''New Melones Dam'') is the source of one of these problems. The disused Melones Dam blocks cold water at the bottom of the lake from reaching the river, especially in dry years when the surface of the lake is closer to the crest of the old dam. This results in the river below the dam attaining a much higher temperature than usual, hurting native fish and wildlife. To solve this problem, Reclamation shuts off operations of the dam's hydroelectric power plant when water levels are drastically low, but this results in power shortages. Originally, after the dam was constructed, the State of California put filling the reservoir on hold because of enormous public opposition to what was being inundated: the [[limestone]] canyon behind the dam, the deepest of its kind in the United States, contained hundreds of archaeological and historic sites and one of California's best and most popular [[whitewater rafting]] runs.<ref>{{cite news
|last=Atkins |first=Thomas |url=http://mysierramountaintimes.com/2009/08/the-stanislaus-river-by-thomas-atkins/ |title=The Stanislaus River: Thirty Years of Enlightenment about Rivers and Dams—Revisiting the Mother Lode's Flooded Treasure |work=The Sierra Mountain Times |date=2009-08-28 |access-date=2010-01-17}}</ref> Thus the reservoir extended only to Parrot's Ferry Bridge, {{convert|9|mi|abbr=on}} below its maximum upriver limit, until the [[El Niño]] event of 1982–1983, which filled it to capacity within weeks and even forced Reclamation to open the emergency spillways, prompting the state and federal governments to repeal the limits they had imposed on the reservoir. Furthermore, the project allows a far smaller sustainable water yield than originally expected, and Reclamation calls the dam "a case study of all that can go wrong with a project".<ref>{{cite web |last=Simonds |first=Joe |url=http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=New%20Melones%20Unit%20Project&pageType=ProjectHistoryPage |title=New Melones Unit Project History |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Bureau of Reclamation History Program |year=1994 |access-date=2010-01-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140324032321/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=New%20Melones%20Unit%20Project&pageType=ProjectHistoryPage |archive-date=2014-03-24 }}</ref>

In response to these environmental problems, Congress passed in 1992 the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA), Title 34 of Public Law 102-575, to change water management practices in the CVP in order to lessen the ecological impact on the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers. Actions mandated included the release of more water to supply rivers and wetlands, funding for habitat restoration work (especially for anadromous fish spawning gravels), water temperature control, water conservation, fish passage, increasing the service area of the CVP's canals, and other items.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/CAMP/CAMP_documents/Central_Valley_Project_Improvement_Act.pdf |title=Central Valley Project Improvement Act |publisher=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |work=Comprehensive Assessment and Monitoring Program |access-date=2010-01-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604150718/http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/CAMP/CAMP_documents/Central_Valley_Project_Improvement_Act.pdf |archive-date=June 4, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvpia/ |title=Central Valley Project Improvement Act |publisher=U.S. Bureau of Reclamation |work=Mid-Pacific Region |access-date=2010-01-16 |archive-date=April 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409210336/http://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvpia/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Despite the preservation of river programs, the state legislature continued to have the power to construct dams.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Great Thirst: Californians and Water|url=https://archive.org/details/greatthirstcalif00hund|url-access=registration|last=Hundley|first=Norris|publisher=University of California Press|year=1992|page=[https://archive.org/details/greatthirstcalif00hund/page/374 374]|isbn=9780520077867 }}</ref>

== CVP Government Library ==

{{collapse top|title=CVP Reports|left=yes}}

*  1902-1966 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4262879&view=image&seq=93 US Bureau of Reclamation Annual Appropriations]
* 1923-1949 [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011395648?type%5B%5D=subject&lookfor%5B%5D=%22%20Reclamation%20of%20land%22&filter%5B%5D=authorStr%3AUnited%20States.%20Bureau%20of%20Reclamation&filter%5B%5D=topicStr%3AIrrigation&ft= US Buruea of Reclamation - Reclamation Era Bulletins - includes monthly reports on projects and highlights]
* 1948 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080055927&view=image&seq=1&size=125 US Bureau of Reclamation Project Reports]
* 1949 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021017580&view=image&seq=5 CVP Comprehensive Report]
* 1950 [https://books.google.com/books?id=gwEqHpt_AEYC&q=central+valley+project+annual+report CVP Annual Report]
* 1952 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015082330062&view=image&seq=3 US Bureau of Reclamation 50th Anniversary]
* 1955 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=7 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=11 Highlights]
* 1956 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=43 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=47 Highlights]
* 1957 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=75 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=79 Highlights]
* 1958 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=107 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=111]
* 1959 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=143 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210014832743&view=image&seq=147 Highlights]
* 1960 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=7 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=11 Highlights]
* 1961 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=43 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=47 Highlights]
* 1962 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435068195916&view=image&seq=3 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435068195916&view=image&seq=7 Highlights]
* 1963 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=111 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=115 Highlights]
* 1964 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=147 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=151 Highlights]
* 1965 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=183 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=187 Highlights]
* 1966 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=215 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=219 Highlights]
* 1967 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=247 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=251 Highlights]
* 1968 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=279 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=283 Highlights]
* 1969 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=311 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=315 Highlights]
* 1970 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=343 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210000213015&view=image&seq=347 Highlights]
* 1971 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027094021&view=image&seq=3 CVP Annual Report] & [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027094021&view=image&seq=7 Highlights]
* 1971 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435062360177&view=image&seq=1&size=200 US Bureau of Reclamation Annual Report]
* 1972 [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015048176252&view=image&seq=3 CVP Annual Report]
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* 1950 [https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/725/ United States v. Gerlach Live Stock Co., 339 U.S. 725 (1950) Riparian Rights]
* 1958 [https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/357/275/  Ivanhoe Irrig. Dist. v. McCracken, 357 U.S. 275 (1958) 160-acre limitation]
* 1960 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1120404/ivanhoe-irr-dist-v-all-parties/ Ivanhoe Irrig. Dist. v. All Parties, 53 Cal.2d 692 (1960) irrigation districts contracts]
* 1963 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/106566/dugan-v-rank/ Dugan v. Rank, 372 U.S. 609 (1963) Friant Dam Water Rights]
* 1963 [https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/627/ City of Fresno v. State of California, 372 U.S. 627 eminent domain and water rights]
* 1973 [https://m.openjurist.org/487/f2d/814/environmental-defense-fund-inc-v-armstrong-environmental-defense-fund-inc Environmental Defense v. Armstrong, 487 F.2d 814 (9th Cir. 1973) New Melones Dam environmental impacts]
* 1976 [https://elr.info/sites/default/files/litigation/11.20033.htm National Land for the People, Inc. v. Bureau of Reclamation, 417 F. Supp. 449 (D.D.C. 1976). Injunction against DOE land sales]
* 1977 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1463300/county-of-trinity-v-andrus/ Trinity County v. Andrus, 438 F. Supp. 1368 (E.D. Cal. 1977) drought impacts]
* 1978 [https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/438/645/ California v. United States, 438 U.S. 645 (1978) water distribution and rights]
* 1981 [https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/451/287/ California v. Sierra Club, 451 U.S. 287 (1981) Delta Water quality]
* 1982 [https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/694/1171/117097/ United States v. State Water Resources Control Board, 694 F. 2d 1171 (9th Cir. 1982) New Melones water permits]
* 1982 [https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-state-of-cal-2 United States v. State of California, 529 F.Supp. 303 (E.D. Cal. 1982) Delta Water Quality Control Plan]
* 1982 [https://openjurist.org/681/f2d/645 Morici Corp. v. United States, 681 F.2d 645 (9th Cir. 1982) Federal immunity claim over crop damages]
* 1983 [https://openjurist.org/700/f2d/561/westlands-water-district-v-united-states-us Westlands Water District v. United States, 700 F.2d 561 (9th Cir. 1983) Environmental impacts and legal intervention]
* 1985 [https://openjurist.org/767/f2d/531/south-delta-water-agency-v-united-states-department-of-interior-bureau-of-reclamation-g-n South Delta Water Agency v. United States, 767 F.2d 531 (9th Cir. 1985) South Delta's water rights]
* 1985 [https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/board_decisions/adopted_orders/water_quality/wqo85.shtml SWRCB Water Quality Order No. WQ 85-1 Kesterson Reservoir mitigation]
* 1986 [https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/182/82.html United States v. State Water Resources Control Board (182 Cal. App.3d 82 (1986) ("Racanelli Decision") State Water Resources Control Board's Delta water quality plan and Water Rights]
* 1990 [https://openjurist.org/899/f2d/799 Peterson v. United States Dept. of Interior, 899 F.2d 799 (9th Cir. 1990) environmental impacts and water rights]
* 1993 [https://openjurist.org/985/f2d/1397 Madera Irr. Dist. v. Hancock, 985 F.2d 1397 (9th Cir. 1993) water contracts ]
* 1993 [https://openjurist.org/899/f2d/814 Barcellos and Wolfsen, Inc. v. Westlands Water District, 899 F.2d 814 (9th Cir.1990) subsidized water contracts]
* 1993 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2247995/sumner-peck-ranch-inc-v-bureau-of-reclamation/ Sumner Peck Ranch, Inc. v. Bureau of Reclamation, 823 F.Supp. 715 (E.D. Cal. 1993) environmental impacts ]
* 1994 [https://openjurist.org/43/f3d/457/westlands-water-district Westlands Water Dist. v. NRDC, 43 F.3d 457 (9th Cir. 1994) environmental impacts]
* 1995 [https://openjurist.org/50/f3d/677/oneill-v-united-states O'Neill v. United States, 50 F.3d 677 (9th Cir. 1995) water contracts]
* 1995 [https://openjurist.org/58/f3d/469/california-trout-v-a-schaefer-us-j-us California Trout v. Schaefer, 58 F.3d 469 (9th Cir. 1995) environmental impacts and water contracts]
* 1996 [https://openjurist.org/100/f3d/94/westlands-water-district-v-united-states-k Westlands Water Dist. v. United States, 100 F.3d 94 (9th Cir. 1996) Water contracts]
* 1997 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2264820/county-of-san-joaquin-v-st-water-res-ctrl-bd/ County of San Joaquin v. State Water Resources Control Board, 54 Cal.App.4th 1144 (1997) New Melones water allocations]
* 1998 [https://openjurist.org/146/f3d/1118/natural-resources-defense-council Natural Resources Defense Council v. Houston, 146 F.3d 1118 (9th Cir. 1998) Environmental Species Act enforcement]
* 1999 [https://openjurist.org/531/us/425 Central Green Co. v. United States, 531 U.S. 425 (1999) Friant dam flood liability]
* 2000 [https://openjurist.org/203/f3d/568/firebaugh-canal-co Firebaugh Canal Co. et al., v. United States, 203 F.3d 568 (9th Cir. 2000) Kesterson drain]
* 2001 [https://openjurist.org/271/f3d/1377 State of California v. United States, 271 F.3d 1377 (Fed. Cir. 2001) Kesterson impacts]
* 2002 [https://openjurist.org/306/f3d/938 Central Delta Water Agency v. United States, 306 F.3d 938 (9th Cir. 2002) New Melones Reservoir intervenor legal standings]
* 2003 [https://openjurist.org/337/f3d/1092/westlands-water-district-v-united-states-c-a Westlands Water District v. United States, 337 F.3d 1092 (9th Cir. 2003) water contracts]
* 2003 [http://elawreview.org/case-summaries/laub-v-united-states-department-of-the-interior/ Laub v. U.S. Department of the Interior (9th Circuit, 2003) Environmental Impacts ]
* 2004 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/624038/san-luis-delta-mendota-water-authority-v-united-states/ Bay Inst. of San Francisco v. United States (9th Cir., unpublished, 87 Fed. Appx. 637, January 23, 2004) water rights and 1992 CVPIA]
* 2004 [http://elawreview.org/case-summaries/westlands-water-district-v-united-states-department-of-the-interior/ Westlands Water District v. U.S. Department of Interior, 376 F. 3d 853 (9th Cir. 2004) Environmental impacts]
* 2005 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/799987/orff-v-united-states/ Orff v. United States, 545 U.S. 596 (2005) Water contracts]
* 2005 [https://openjurist.org/415/f3d/986/hoopa-valley-indian-tribe-v-j-ryan-a Hoopa Valley Indian Tribe v. Ryan, 415 F.3d 986 (9th Cir. 2005) Water contracts]
* 2006 [http://www.lawlink.com/research/CaseLevel3/83061 State Water Resources Control Board Cases, 136 Cal.App. 4th 674 (2006) Water rights]
* 2006 [https://openjurist.org/452/f3d/1021/central-delta-water-agency Central Delta Water Agency v. Bureau of Reclamation, 452 F.3d 1021 (9th Cir. 2006) water salinity]
* 2007 [https://cite.case.law/fed-cl/76/470/ Stockton East Water District v. United States, 76 Fed. Cl. 321 (2007), amended by 76 Fed. Cl. 470 New Melones Reservoir water contracts ]
* 2007 [https://blog.aklandlaw.com/2008/05/articles/endangered-species/californias-water-supply-potentially-endangered-by-invalid-biological-opinion/ Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations v. Gutierrez, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Case No. 1:06-CV-00245 OWW environmental impacts on salmon]
* 2007 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2633226/laub-v-davis/ Laub v. Davis, California Supreme Court Case No. S138974;  CALFED environmental impacts]
* 2009 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2285713/natural-resources-defense-council-v-kempthorne/ NRDC v. Kempthorne 627 Supp 2d 1212 - Delta Smelt impacts]
* 2010 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2541272/consolidated-delta-smelt-cases/ Consolidated Delta Smelt Cases, 717 F. Supp. 2d 1021 (E.D. Cal. 2010) District Court, E.D. California]
* 2010 [https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2478234/san-luis-delta-mendota-water-auth-v-salazar/ San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Auth. v. Salazar, 760 F. Supp. 2d 855 (E.D. Cal. 2010) water contracts environment]
* 2018 [https://www.uscourts.gov/cameras-courts/hoopa-valley-tribe-v-national-marine-fisheries-et-al-and-yurok-tribe-et-al-v-united Hoopa Valley Tribe v. National Marine Fisheries, et al. and Yurok Tribe, et al. v. United States Bureau of Reclamation fishing rights]
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* [https://www.gao.gov/products/087957 1955 7-6 Report on USBR, for the Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1952 and 1953]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/B-118605 1958 11-18 Report on Acquisition, Leasing, and Disposal of Reclamation Lands, Bureau of Reclamation]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/087963 1957 12-11 Audit of CVP for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1956]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/087883 1962 4-26 Revenue-Producing Water Resources Development Projects, USBR and Corps of Engineers, Fiscal Year 1960]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/087815 1968 10-18 Negotiation of Contracts for Water From the CVP]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/096230 Congress Should Reevaluate the 160-Acre Limitation on Land Eligible To Receive Federal Water]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/090646 1973 11-19 CVP's Proposed Power Rate Increase]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/094594 1974 1-21 Comments on Proposed Power Rate Increase by the USBR's CVP]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/089664 1974 8-1 Financial Position of the CVP]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/101885 1977 4-14 Allegations Concerning Westlands Water District]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/CED-77-117 1977 9-2 More and Better Uses Could Be Made of Billions of Gallons of Water by Improving Irrigation Delivery Systems]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/EMD-78-18 1977 11-21 Rationale for Power Rates Charged by the CVP to Pacific Gas and Electric Company]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/088830 1979 3-22 Cotton Production by California Farmers Who Receive Irrigation Water]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/CED-81-95 1981 4-21 Information on the Resale of Water Provided Under Contract by the Federal Government in California]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/118986 1982 7-18 Obligation of Funds for CVP's for Fiscal Year 1978]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-83-150 1983 6-18 Proposed Pricing of Irrigation Water From CVP's New Melones Reservoir]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-84-4 1983 10-5 Archeological Studies at New Melones Dam in California]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/088915 1984 1-4 USBR Rates for Electric Power Sales by the CVP]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/CED-82-30 1982 1-18 Information On California Delta Water Quality Standards]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/124479 1984 5-21 Query Concerning Repayment of O&M Costs Under CVP]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-85-158 1985 9-9 Bureau of Reclamation's CVP Repayment Arrangements]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-87-128 1987 7-17 Kesterson Wildlife Management: National Refuge Contamination Is Difficult To Confirm and Clean Up]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-90-6 1989 10-12 Basic Changes Needed to Avoid Abuse of the 960-Acre Limit]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/T-RCED-92-13 1991 10-21 Changes Needed Before Water Service Contracts Are Renewed]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-94-8 1994 4-18 Impact of Higher Irrigation Rates on CVP Farmers]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/RCED-94-243 1994 8-15 Federal Actions to Protect Sacramento River Salmon]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-01-553 2001 5-4 Water Marketing Activities and Costs at the CVP]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-307R 2007 12-18 Reimbursement of CVP Construction Costs by San Luis Unit Irrigation Water Districts]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-764 2014 9-8 USBR: Availability of Information on Repayment of Water Project Construction Costs]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-468R 2015 6-4 Financial Information for Three California Water Programs]
* [https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-18-473 2018 8-16 SF Bay Delta Watershed: Wide Range of Restoration Efforts Need Updated]
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==CVP resources==

[[File:Central Valley Organizations Chart.png|thumb|Federal, state and non-governmental organizations involved in the Central Valley]]
*  The [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Dept. of Interior]]'s [[United States Bureau of Reclamation|US Bureau of Reclamation]] is the federal agency that manages the CVP: [https://www.doioig.gov/reports?report_type=7Semi-annual Annual reports 1995-to present]
* The [[United States Department of Energy|U.S. Dept. of Energy]]'s [[Western Area Power Administration]] oversees distribution of the CVP's federally produced electricity
* The [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]]<ref>{{cite web |title=US Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District |url=https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/ |website=spk.usace.army.mil |publisher=U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref> manages 17 of the Central Valley Project dams including its [https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Dam-Safety-Program/ dam safety alert system]
* [https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/habitat-conservation/west-coast-federal-energy-regulatory-commission-licensed Licensed Hydroelectric Projects] at the [[Federal Energy Regulatory Commission]]
* The [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] Central Valley Regional Office [https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species-conservation/water-operations-central-valley-california monitors the CVP's Endangered Species Act Operations]
* [https://www.justice.gov/enrd/central-valley-project U.S. Department of Justice - Central Valley project Environment and Natural Resources Division]
* [https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/about-central-valley.html -  U.S. Geological Survey's California Central Valley Water Science Center]
* [https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2009/3057/  USGS California Central Valley Groundwater Study Tool]
* [https://waterdata.usgs.gov/ca/nwis/gw/ USGS Groundwater Data for California]
* [https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/cvhm-texture-model.html Central Valley Hydrologic Model: Texture Model]
* [https://www.usgs.gov/centers/werc/science/goose-population-dynamics-california-central-valley-and-pacific-flyway?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects USGS Goose Population Dynamics in the California Central Valley and Pacific Flyway]
* [http://centralvalleymonitoring.org/ Central Valley Watershed Monitoring Directory]
* [https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/water-code/ Findlaw California Water Code Search Engine]
* The [[California State Water Project]] (SWP) is managed by the [[California Department of Water Resources]] 
* [https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Flood-Management/Flood-Planning-and-Studies/Central-Valley-Flood-Protection-Plan Central Valley Flood Protection Plan]
* [https://www.acwa.com/ Association of California Water Agencies]
* [https://www.acwa.com/about/directory/ Directory - Association of California Water Agencies]
* [https://www.svwqc.org/    Sacramento Valley Water Quality Coalition (SVWQC)]
* [http://climate.calcommons.org/article/central-valley-change Overview of Projected Climate Change in the California Central Valley | California Climate Commons]
* [http://www.calwaterassn.com/about-cwa/regulated-water-utilities-in-california/  Regulated Water Utilities in California | California Water Association]
* The [[California Reclamation Districts]] are the legal districts that manage the Central Valley's levees
* [https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/programs/districts/ California Water Districts]
* [https://water.ca.gov/Programs/State-Water-Project/History Ca. Dept. of Water Resources: Central Valley History]
* [https://water.ca.gov/LegacyFiles/waterplan/docs/cwpu2009/0310final/v4c16a01_cwp2009.pdf Chronology of Major Litigation Involving the CVP and SWP] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303164457/https://water.ca.gov/LegacyFiles/waterplan/docs/cwpu2009/0310final/v4c16a01_cwp2009.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}
* [http://calsport.org/fisheriesblog/?p=322 The California Sportfishing Protection Alliance's Listen to the River peer review summary]
* The [[California Water Plan]] is the state's official water policy with the latest version completed in 2013 
* [[Water in California]] Summarizes the history and details of the state's water policy issues. 
* California's [[Irrigation district]]'s 92 public self-governing subdivisions<ref>{{cite web |title=Water Special Districts: A Look at Governance and Public Participation |url=https://lao.ca.gov/2002/water_districts/special_water_districts.html |website=lao.ca.gov |access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref> of the State that purchase water from the CVP
* [https://www.cvacoop.com/ Central Valley Ag - CVA]
* [https://mavensnotebook.com/ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK | California Water news]
* [https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/education/water-primer UC Davis: California Water Primer] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204164219/https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/education/water-primer |date=February 4, 2020 }}
* [http://waterusersconference.com/planning.html Mid-Pacific Water Users' Conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030182518/http://waterusersconference.com/planning.html |date=October 30, 2020 }}
* [https://www.watereducation.org/about-us-1 Water Education Foundation]
* [https://www.loc.gov/item/2008677051/ Library of Congress - Central Valley Project]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=tE-7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 CVP annual construction costs 1935-1959]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=tE-7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA688 1945 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 160-acre Legal analysis]
* [https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=United%20States.%20Bureau%20of%20Reclamation US Bureau of Reclamation Documents - Hathi Trust Digital Library]
* [https://archive.org/details/centralvalleypro00writrich "The Central valley project"] by [[Federal Writers' Project]] (U.S.) California, 1942<ref>{{cite web |title=New Deal Programs: Federal Writers' Project |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/newdeal/fwp.html |website=loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref>
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=6opNAQAAMAAJ 1956 Congressional Library on authorizing Documents Central Valley Project - Includes detailed timeline]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q112Pbb8j0wC 1,600 page investigation of USBR that includes the Reclamation Reform Act of 1979: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy]
* [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210025008267&view=image&seq=1 1984 Information Bulletin #2 U.S. BUREAU of RECLAMATION - KESTERSON RESERVOIR - AND WATERFOWL - Impacts]
* 1986 - The [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210018923712&view=image&seq=5 Agreement between the United States of America and the State of California for coordinated operation of the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project]
*  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwBoJIg6xTs The Grapes of Wrath Movie] & [[The Grapes of Wrath|book]]
* [[Cadillac Desert (film)|Cadillac Desert documentary]] & [[Cadillac Desert|book]]
* [[Farmworker]] movements in California from the [[National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry|Grange]], [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] and the [[Wheatland hop riot]], the [[Bracero program|Bracero's]] to the [[United Farm Workers]]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=LkSO4UjnPMUC&pg=PA92 Bitter Harvest, a History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941 By Cletus E. Dani] 
* [[Dorothea Lange#Resettlement Administration|Dorothea Lange Central Valley]] - [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dorothea-lange-biography-with-photo-gallery/3097/ PBS Biography]
* [http://www.sjphoto.com/gcvp-home.html The Great Central Valley Project by Stephen Johnson, Robert Dawson and author Gerald Haslam]
* The [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific railroad]], currently known as [[BNSF Railway]] was the Central Valley's largest owner and played a major role in its evolution, from the [[Mussel Slough Tragedy]], the [[California Development Company]]'s [[Salton Sea]], its land grabs<ref>{{cite web |last1=Barnes |first1=Peter |title=The Great American Land Grab |url=http://peter-barnes.org/article/the-great-american-land-grab/ |website=peter-barnes.org |date=June 5, 1971 |publisher=New Republic |access-date=4 December 2019}}</ref>
* California's version of [[Pork barrel]] [[Iron triangle (US politics)|politics]] started with the [[California water wars|Owens Valley]] land and water takings by the city of [[Los Angeles]] with a PBS documentary series Part 1<ref>{{cite web |title=Cadillac Desert Mulholland's Dream |url=https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~martins/hydro/case_studies/cadillac_desert.htm |website=ldeo.columbia.edu |access-date=7 December 2019}}</ref> and movie [[Chinatown (1974 film)]]
* The Central Valley is also the home to one of the country's [[History of oil in California through 1930|oldest]] and largest [[California oil and gas industry|oil & gas]] industries, that includes the [[Pollution in California|environmental]] controversial.<ref>{{cite news |last1=RONAYNE |first1=KATHLEEN |last2=OXFORD |first2=ANDREW |title=California governor criticizes increase in fracking permits |url=https://apnews.com/41bd259cb6eb469a946c449947934fac |access-date=7 December 2019 |work=Associated Press |date=12 July 2019}}</ref> use of [[Hydraulic fracturing|fracking]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Hydraulic Fracturing in California |url=https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/general_information/Pages/HydraulicFracturing.aspx |website=conservation.ca.gov |publisher=Ca. Dept. of Conservation |access-date=7 December 2019 |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230045029/https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/general_information/Pages/HydraulicFracturing.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hydraulic Fracturing in California |url=https://california.lawi.us/hydraulic-fracturing/ |website=california.lawi.us |access-date=7 December 2019 |archive-date=December 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207195208/https://california.lawi.us/hydraulic-fracturing/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Gallery ==
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File:US Department of Interrior Bureau of Reclamation - Central Valley Project Map 1938.png|US Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation - Central Valley Project Map 1938
File:Web pdfs cvfr chinook.pdf|CVP Chinook Map
File:Wea03344 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|Friant Dam - NOAA Photo Library
File:Friant Dam & Milerton Lake.jpg|Friant Dam & Milerton Lake

File:California fish and game (19893457633).jpg|Friant Dam
File:Photograph "Indian Graveyard No. 1," from report "History of Indians Buried in Friant Dam Reservoir Area (California)... - NARA - 296229 (cropped).jpg|Photograph "Indian Graveyard No. 1," from report "History of Indians Buried in Friant Dam Reservoir Area (California)... - NARA - 296229 (cropped)
File:Photograph "Indian Graveyard 'H'...containing the remains of Charlie Johnson and other Indians (Coarsegold Tribe),"... - NARA - 296227.tif|Photograph "Indian Graveyard 'H'...containing the remains of Charlie Johnson and other Indians (Coarsegold Tribe),"... - NARA - 296227
File:Photograph "View looking southeast of Picciune Indian Cemetery," from report "History of Indians Buried in Friant Dam... - NARA - 296228 (cropped).jpg|Photograph "View looking southeast of Picciune Indian Cemetery," from report "History of Indians Buried in Friant Dam... - NARA - 296228 (cropped)
File:Photograph with text of group of Native Americans on land that will be submerged by a dam near Millerton and Friant... - NARA - 296302.tif|Photograph with text of group of Native Americans on land that will be submerged by a dam near Millerton and Friant... - NARA - 296302
File:Photograph "Rancheria Indian Cemetery below Pincushion Peak, Table Mountain, Fresno County," from report "History of... - NARA - 296225.tif|Photograph "Rancheria Indian Cemetery below Pincushion Peak, Table Mountain, Fresno County," from report "History of... - NARA - 296225
</gallery>

== See also ==
* [[CALFED Bay-Delta Program]]
* [[Cadillac Desert]] -about the book- and [[Cadillac Desert (film)]]
* [[California Department of Water Resources]]
* [[California Reclamation Districts]]
* [[California State Water Project]]
* [[California Water Wars]]
* [[Droughts in California]]
* [[Environment of California]]
* [[Environmental issues in Fresno, California]]
* [[Rivers and Harbors Act]]
* [[Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta]]
* [[San Joaquin River]]
* [[Water in California]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040209001614/http://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvo/ Central Valley Project Operations Office]
* http://www.sacmetronews.com/2018/02/tribes-fishermen-slam-trump-plan-to.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911044739/http://www.sacmetronews.com/2018/02/tribes-fishermen-slam-trump-plan-to.html |date=September 11, 2018 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615004945/http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central%20Valley%20Project Central Valley Project Summary]
* [http://www.sldmwa.org/historical.htm Central Valley Project Historic Photos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041106155114/http://www.sldmwa.org/historical.htm |date=November 6, 2004 }}
* [http://mavensnotebook.com/the-notebook-file-cabinet/californias-water-systems/the-central-valley-project/  The Central Valley Project: Informational page and slideshow of project facilities], Mavens Notebook
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071225164200/http://www.usbr.gov/library/glossary/ USBR Glossary of Terms]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=0SkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA95 "Food for 70,000,000 – How Engineering Wil Aid Nature in California's Central Valley"]. ''[[Popular Science]]'', March 1944, pp.&nbsp;95–98.

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