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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=8 cellpadding=0 width="95%" style='width:95.66%;margin-left:-6.0pt'><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=155C0C7940CABA70&p_docnum=1&p_theme=gatehouse&s_site=YCSB&p_product=YCSB">http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_action=doc&p_docid=155C0C7940CABA70&p_docnum=1&p_theme=gatehouse&s_site=YCSB&p_product=YCSB</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>French company plans water pipeline from Klamath to Southern California</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'> <br><i>David Smith</i> –Siskiyou Daily News – June 3, 2015<br><i>@sdndavidsmith</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>PARIS, France - California's search for drought solutions has attained a global reach, with one French company proposing to extend the useful life of <b>Klamath</b> <b>River</b> water for the rain-starved fields to the south.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Via Marina, a subsidiary of France's VINCI Construction, submitted a prefeasibility study to the state in February detailing the proposed use of its patented water delivery system. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Dubbed a "submarine <b>river</b>," the system utilizes an underwater pipeline to deliver water from the mouth of a <b>river</b> to a separate location. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Via Marina's vision for California is the establishment of a submarine <b>river</b> taking water from the mouth of the <b>Klamath</b> and Eel rivers and delivering it to parched areas in Central and Southern California. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Still in its infancy, the proposal is considered a first step in what Via Marina founding partner and Managing Committee Chairman Félix Bogliolo hopes will be a serious look at a unique solution to the ongoing drought problem. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Speaking with the Siskiyou Daily News by email and Skype, Bogliolo shared insights about his company's vision and how it interacts with California's complex water politics. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>He explained that the system is installed at a <b>river</b>'s "salt wedge limit," where the transition from fresh to salt water is just beginning. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"At that point, all users upstream have been fully served with all the water they need for their uses, and downstream, there can't be any more human users," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Bogliolo added that there is still one important user within the <b>river</b>'s influence - the ecosystem - and its needs would require consideration when determining how much water could be diverted through the submarine <b>river</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>That determination would be made in what Via Marina hopes is the next step for the state: a full feasibility study that would examine potential impacts on the environment, the costs of construction and other aspects of what would be a large scale project along California's coast. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>In the 1970s, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation studied the concept of an undersea aqueduct that would pull from the <b>Klamath</b> and Eel rivers, at the time finding that such a system could deliver approximately 4 million acrefeet of water annually. The cost, using April 1973 prices, was estimated to be $20 billion, plus an annual investment and operations costs of about $1.8 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=8 cellpadding=0 width="95%" style='width:95.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Thanks to advances in engineering and construction - united in Via Marina's system - the company believes that those costs would be significantly less today, according to Bogliolo. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>He said that the company is currently working with the Chilean government and its citizens to explore a proposal to take water from a southern <b>river</b> and bring it north, where climate changes are hindering an already dry region. He added that such a water delivery is expected to help boost the ability to expand agriculture to areas where land is plentiful but where water is needed to put it into production. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The fallowed fields of California's Central Valley could benefit in much the same way, according to Bogliolo, who called attention to the burgeoning human population and its continuing need for more food as space to produce it becomes scarce. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>He said that the company envisions the proposal as one that can benefit not just agriculture but possibly municipal, industrial and environmental needs as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>He does not see it as a cure all, however; he said that he believes there would still be a need for continued conservation and preservation in water use. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"Obviously, this is a last resort measure. All measures of good governance, preservation, reasonable use and savings should be, immediately and in any case, put in place and strictly observed and enforced," he said, "and not only to cope with the current drought but over the long run so that they deeply form part of the normal California way of life or culture." Asked how he would sell the project politically - beyond the scientific considerations - Bogliolo said that he sees the issue as one requiring solidarity with fellow citizens in need. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"Northern folks are happy to eat good southern vegetables or fruits and drink excellent southern wine. Southerns could use northern water to grow them, and it wouldn't hurt Northern California," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Whether the state agrees is still in question, both regarding the likelihood of a feasibility study being conducted and whether it is under serious consideration. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The Siskiyou Daily News contacted the Department of Water Resources, North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and California Office of Emergency Services, all of which either failed to respond by press time or pointed to one of the other agencies for answers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Bogliolo sees it as the state's prerogative to figure out whether it wants to explore the issue and expressed it in simple terms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"It's a matter of conducting a rational decision-making process, taking into account all facets of the issue at stake: scientific, technical, commercial, environmental, political, financial and human, weighing all of the pros and cons," he said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>He also offered to come to the <b>Klamath</b> region to discuss the issue with citizens, scientists and government officials free of charge. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>With the ongoing need to fill the gap between water needs and water available, Bogliolo said that the ball is in California's court when it comes to figuring out whether his company has the best solution. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>"Because of that gap, California has a problem, a permanent and long-standing one, one that comes from long ago, that will only get worse with climate change and that the next few rain drops won't solve," he said. "It just happens that Via Marina has a solution, a solution that is at the same time efficient, permanent, environmentally sustainable and cost effective, contrary to many others." <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td width="100%" style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><br><span class=nb-storydetails-bodycopy>This conceptual drawing from Via Marina shows a proposed pipeline that would run from the mouth of the <b>Klamath</b> <b>River</b> to Southern California underneath the Pacific Ocean.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><img border=0 width=1 height=2 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.png@01D09ECA.34B0F8A0" alt="http://nl.newsbank.com/graphic/transparent.gif"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Copyright 2015 Siskiyou Daily News. 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