Water rushes down the spillway at Peters Dam at Kent Lake near Lagunitas on Jan. 6, 2022. (Douglas Zimmerman/Special to the Marin Independent Journal)
Three months after adopting a plan to add new water supplies, the Marin Municipal Water District provided a progress update on a variety of projects.
The report to the district board on Tuesday largely focused on projects that could be completed within the next two to four years. They include automating dam water releases; new interconnections between reservoirs; adding a pump station and potential hydropower capabilities to the district’s third-largest, but infrequently used, reservoir; and new conservation measures.
Preliminary studies are also underway on more complicated projects such as a proposed brackish desalination plan on the Petaluma River, expanding reservoir capacity and pumping imported…
