Section 11973 Of Article 3. Conservation In The State Water Resources Development System From California Water Code >> Division 6. >> Part 3. >> Chapter 11. >> Article 3.
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. The department shall determine whether a local water
conservation project described in Section 11970 is economically
competitive by comparing, in an engineering and economic analysis,
the local conservation project with alternative new water supply
sources constituting either reservoirs located north of the delta or
off-aqueduct storage reservoirs located south or west of the delta
designed to supply water to the California Aqueduct. The analysis for
the alternative new water supply sources shall use the average cost
per acre-foot of yield in the latest studies made for those sources
by the department and shall compare those facilties with the proposed
local conservation project using commonly accepted engineering
economics. In the case of a local conservation project to be funded
in part by the department as part of the system and in part from
other sources, the economic analysis shall be applied only to the
portion to be funded by the department as a part of the system.