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<br /> <br /> <br />lG III <br />50.,.,"",11.. <br /> <br />EBMUD completed Pardee Resenloir and <br />its first aqueduct system to deliver Mokel- <br />umne River water to the Bay area in 1929. <br /> <br />San FrancIsco's San Andreas <br />Water Filtration Plant <br /> <br /> <br />10 CALlFORMA WATER <br /> <br />.$'" <br />Water Source: I ~-$> <br />Mokelumne River ~ <br />Watershed I <br /> <br />It- <br />., <br />MiddleFwk 0 <br />Mokelumne "" <br />Rover <br /> <br />EBMUD's Mokelumne River <br />Aqueduct System <br /> <br />This aqueduct system also reduced the inflow into the Delta. As <br />seems to he inevitable in California, the supply was sufficient for <br />only a relatively short period of time.! 3 <br />The original planners of the Mokelumne system could never <br />have foreseen the tremendous growtb that the area experienced <br />during and after World War n. In 1946, a bond issue was approved <br />for the construction of a second barrel of the Mokelumne Aqueduct, <br />which was completed in 1949. A third Mokelumne Aqueduct was <br />completed in 1963, the district having had the foresight, or luck, to <br />acquire sufficient rights-of-way for three pipelines. In 1964, EBMUD <br />completed a second dam on the Mokelumne, Camanche Dam, which <br />created a ten-mile lake for additional water storage. EBMUD also <br />has a contractual right with the Bureau of Reclamation for 150,000 <br />acre-feet of water from the American Rlver.14 Although no water <br />has yet heen taken under this contract, it has survived a major legal <br />challenge. See discussion in chapter 3. <br /> <br />13 John Noble, fts Name Was M.UD. (1970), pages 7-8.12,16,26. <br />14 MU.D., pages 66. 152. 165. <br /> <br />