Over $500 million is on the table for water storage projects across California. Options on how to allocate this money were discussed at the February meeting, and a final decision on funding was expected to be made at the March 19 meeting. However, the commissioners ultimately decided to withhold the majority of the money, at least for now. Most of the available funding came from the failed Los Vaqueros Reservoir expansion in Contra Costa County. $453.7 million was returned to the California Water Commission Water Storage Investment Program (WSIP) following the collapse of the project.

Other water project funding news:

• Daily Kos: Blog: Sites Reservoir receives an additional $134 million in federal funding from Trump regime