{"content":[{"text":"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE \n January 19, 2006","bbox":{"left":0.135294,"top":0.106455,"width":0.26238799999999995,"height":0.037499000000000005}},{"text":"Contact: Dale Myers \n 925-454-5055","bbox":{"left":0.605882,"top":0.106318,"width":0.1698719999999999,"height":0.037636}},{"text":"Zone 7 Board Supports New Approach to Delta Management \n Proposed Agreement Would Maintain Quality and Reliability of Valley’s Primary Water Supply","bbox":{"left":0.154804,"top":0.181951,"width":0.690299,"height":0.038837999999999984}},{"text":"Livermore – The Zone 7 Board of Directors last night adopted CALFED’s new Proposed \n Statement of Principles, helping to move California one step further towards a \n comprehensive new approach to managing the Sacramento-San Joaquin-San Francisco Bay- \n Delta (Delta) that will maintain imported source water quality and ensure a reliable water \n supply—two of Zone 7’s top priorities.","bbox":{"left":0.135294,"top":0.252985,"width":0.723573,"height":0.124757}},{"text":"Zone 7 receives up to 75% of its annual drinking water supply from the Delta, emphasizing \n the importance of the agency’s ongoing involvement in protecting this vital resource. “A \n healthy Delta ecosystem is vital in maintaining the quality and reliability of our imported \n water supplies”, said John Greci, Zone 7 Board President.","bbox":{"left":0.135294,"top":0.409727,"width":0.716689,"height":0.09862100000000001}},{"text":"CALFED, the joint state and federal partnership responsible for managing the Delta, was \n designed to reduce conflicts over limited water supplies and to find a balance between the \n issues of water supply, water quality, ecosystem restoration, and levee system integrity. \n CALFED has come under recent scrutiny amongst concerns that the agency has been too \n unfocused and has not been accomplishing its original purposes.","bbox":{"left":0.135294,"top":0.540409,"width":0.70453,"height":0.12475799999999992}},{"text":"The Statement of Principles is intended to refocus and direct CALFED’s efforts, and to \n provide adequate project financing over the next two years. Participating organizations must \n present the Principles to their governing Boards for approval by January 31, 2006.","bbox":{"left":0.135294,"top":0.697227,"width":0.728941,"height":0.07248500000000002}},{"text":"A major component of the Principles is the development of voluntary habitat conservation \n plans (HCP) for the recovery of key species in the Delta. One or more HCPs could be \n developed that would provide regulatory assurances for water delivery projects over the next \n 40 years. This approach is aimed to focus environmental studies and restoration activities in","bbox":{"left":0.135294,"top":0.801773,"width":0.7274390000000001,"height":0.09862100000000007}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}