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<br />quin Drain <br /> <br /> <br />law sets water quality standards if a valley drain is <br />iol).built, The act prohibits any discharge from a future <br />Qvalley-wide drain into the Delta area until require- <br />t\jffients of state and federal water quality acts are sat- <br />~sfied, and directs the SWRGB to permit the future <br />drain discharge only if it finds that specified addition- <br />al requirements are satisfied, The U.s. Bureau of <br />Reclamation is beginning a new three-year study to <br />meet the requirements of the SWRGB interim guide- <br />lines issued to develop a final discharge permit for the <br />San Luis Drain, <br /> <br />. Napa <br /> <br />, <br />( <br />r-',::- <br />'- <br />-.1 <br />'\ <br />\ <br />, <br /> <br />In other words, the SWRGB wants to know what's <br />going to be in the water when it gets to the Bay-Delta <br />estuary for discharge, The new law also'says the <br />state's participation in the drain would be subject to <br />provisions governing fish, wildlife, and recreation in <br />connection with state water projects, The law goes <br />along with many of the suggestions in the joint fed- <br />eral-state Interagency Drainage Program (IDP) report, <br />including the use of drain water to create new wetland <br />habitat for wintering waterfowL <br /> <br />LEGEND <br /> <br />-- Valley Drain <br /> <br />. ContraCosto Shoreline <br />Morsh <br /> <br />, <br />'.., <br />, ( <br />"--, ~ <br />roposed Valley <br />Northern Se ment <br /> <br />Northern extension of valley drain would terminate at Chipps Island as planned by the Interagency <br />Drainage Program, <br /> <br />Drain <br /> <br />Mi~$ <br />o 1 2 34 5 10 <br />~ <br />~-.--JI <br />o 5 10 II K,lomel... <br /> <br />5 <br />