Harriet Hageman Questions Interior Dept. Official on Water Reclamation Infrastructure

Water Transfers and Infrastructure

• 💧 Rep. Harriet Hageman inquired whether transfers contemplated in HR 4970 would require physical modifications to reclamation's infrastructure or if existing systems could accommodate them.
• ✅ Dustin Sherer confirmed that the transfers can be accommodated through existing infrastructure.

Water Management Flexibility

• 🌊 In wet years, such as 2019 and 2023, Hageman asked how these transfers would allow for increased flexibility and improved water management across the Central Valley Project (CVP).
• 💡 Sherer explained that the CVP, a complex system of state and federally owned reservoirs, can benefit from moving excess water from areas of abundance to areas where it can be stored for dry years, describing this as good management.
• 🤝 Hageman related this to Wyoming's own water management practices, where water is moved between reservoirs like Glendo and Pathfinder to account for and better manage water resources, a concept Sherer agreed with.