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Reclamation Awards Construction Contract to Rehabilitate Delta Cross Channel Gates

Media Contact: Jeffrey McCracken, 916-978-5100, jmccracken@mp.usbr.gov

For Release: June 23, 2006

The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $1 million contract to Extreme Coatings, Inc. of Pasco, Washington, to rehabilitate the radial gates of the Delta Cross Channel Canal, located in southern Sacramento County in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The work will include rehabilitating the two 60-foot by 30-foot gates at the floodgate structure of the Delta Cross Channel, located in Walnut Grove, California. Work is likely to begin in early August 2006.

The Delta Cross Channel Canal is a controlled diversion channel between the Sacramento River and the Mokelumne River. Water is diverted from the Sacramento River through the canal at a maximum flow of 3,500 cubic feet per second. The fresh water drawn from the Sacramento River to the Mokelumne River combats salt water intrusion in the Delta and dilutes local pollution. It then flows through natural channels for about 50 miles to the vicinity of the Tracy Pumping Plant where it is pumped into the Delta-Mendota Canal to irrigate agricultural lands on the Central Valleys west side.

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