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Fernley fears future water shortage as $148M plans to line Truckee Canal move forward Reno-Gazette-Journal 3/11/2021 © JASON BEAN/RGJ The Truckee Canal is seen west of Fernley on March 5, 2021.
Some rural Nevada water users will be on the hook to help fund a project that could ultimately dry up their city’s main source of water, although neither the state or federal government recognizes it as a valid water right.
Following a 2008 Truckee Canal breach that flooded nearly 600 Fernley residences, the Bureau of Reclamation has ordered nearly 13 miles of the canal be lined with an impermeable membrane – a roughly $148 million project. But the canal has been unlined for more than 100 years, and groundwater that percolates from the canal and into Fernley’s aquifer has served as the city’s primary source of water.
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