@article{Fisher:6210,
      recid = {6210},
      author = {Fisher, Anthony C.},
      title = {Water supply options for the East Bay municipal utility  district : a critical analysis},
      address = {1988},
      number = {1557-2016-132834},
      series = {CUDARE Working Paper},
      pages = {16},
      year = {1988},
      abstract = {The two main objectives of the East Bay Municipal Utility  District (EBMUD) water supply management program are to  cope with a failure of the aqueducts in the Delta due to  earthquake and flood damage and to mitigate periodic  shortages. EBMUD emphasizes construction of additional  terminal storage, specifically development of a reservoir  in Buckhorn Canyon, to meet both objectives. Better  alternatives--cheaper and less environmentally  damaging--are (to cope with failure) use of existing  terminal storage and interties, along with an eventual  phased construction of secure aqueducts in tne Delta, and  (to mitigate shortages) purchase of high quality Mokelumne  River water from the nearby Woodbridge Irrigation District,  along with sharply rising block rates to induce  conservation by EBMUD customers. Additional terminal  storage, only as a last
resort, would better come from some  marginal addition to capacity at the planned Los Vaqueros  Reservoir rather than construction of a new reservoir in  Buckhorn Canyon. Under plausible assumptions, the cost of  providing high
quality water during a shortage is 10 times  as high under the Buckhorn option as it would be with water  purchases and conservation.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6210},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.6210},
}