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• On his way to the Cocktail World Cup

• Lodi Hall of Fame

• Lodi police kept busy over long Labor Day weekend

• Public meetings

• Regional Roundup

November 21st, 2009

• Logbook

• Holiday drive spreads cheer to U.S. troops

• Galt High students want board to approve open-campus policy

• Poisoning victims remain hospitalized

• Expert: Half a mushroom cap can be deadly

• Tokay grad files claim over Lodi's Grape Bowl

• Lodi Middle School holds annual Turkey Trot

• Regional Roundup

• No motive or suspect in shooting

• Sacramento cop arrested for alleged kidnapping

November 20th, 2009

• Acampo woman killed

• Salvation Army Kettle Kickoff

• Advocacy groups sue East Bay Municipal Utility District over Pardee expansion

• Regional Roundup

• Galt plans to help residents with energy-efficient projects

• Stable southeast of Lodi approved

• One year after a heart attack, Lodi's Judy Mims thanks rescuers

• National Guard troops return home in time for the holidays

• Real estate market gets on more solid ground

November 19th, 2009

• Operation: Christmas

• Logbook

• Suspect arrested after hiding in fridge

• Chase ends in crash

• Galt Joint Union High School Distric hires new superintendent

• Sales tax hike yields dividends: 5 new officers join Galt Police

• Lodi Unified School District board votes to cancel summer school for 2010

• Water surges in Mokelumne River yield more salmon

• Lodi City Council will consider redevelopment next June

• Lodi City Council plans to cap number of taco trucks at 22

• Corrections

November 18th, 2009

• Regional Roundup

• Paranormal group conducts second investigation of building

• Congress allocates money for local water projects

• Sarah Palin's book hits the shelves: Locals react

• Lodi man finds wife's ashes during police display of stolen property

• Galt City Council rejects study on rent stabilization

November 17th, 2009

• Paying tribute to a Lodian

• Lodi Budget and Finance Committee to look into ways to save money on employee benefits

• Regional Roundup

• Decision on summer school expected at tonight's Lodi Unified School District meeting

• Clements gets free water rescue boat

• Redevelopment to be discussed by Lodi City Council again

• Court reinstates death penalty for killer of Lodi grad

• Clarification

November 16th, 2009

• Correction

• Public Meetings

• City Council 'triple-dog dared' to ditch cars, use Lodi buses

• Sierra Adventure store to close after four years in Downtown Lodi

• Lodi's First Sip event showcases area wineries' latest vintages

• Three members of Lodi-area family fall ill after eating poisonous mushrooms they reportedly found at Lodi Lake

• Regional Roundup

November 14th, 2009

• Galt school district narrows superintendent search to one

• Regional Roundup

• Despite budget cuts, some Lodi Unified School District salaries continue to rise

• Watchful neighbor in Lodi helped bust suspected burglars

• New Galt city manager juggles job, family

• Despite an increase in homeless students, school districts look to bolster enrollment, raise revenue

• A first look at 2009 vintages at Lodi's First Sip wine-tasting event

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Water district still longing for Lodi water

A local water district is still hoping to convince the city of Lodi to give it 1,000 acre-feet of water — free of charge — to help replenish the area's groundwater basin.

Meeting this morning, the North San Joaquin Water Conservation District board voted to send a letter to the Lodi City Council requesting the water.

District Manager Ed Steffani told the water board, which serves roughly the eastern half of Lodi and rural areas to the north and east, that Lodi hasn't used water it purchased from the Woodbridge Irrigation District the past five years because the city has yet to construct a water treatment plant.

While the city of Lodi has 30,000 acre-feet "banked" in storage, Steffani questions whether the city will be able to store all that water once the water treatment plant is completed.

Steffani and North San Joaquin board members have an idea — give 1,000 acre-feet to North San Joaquin for its Calfed-funded recharge project on the Mokelumne River near Woodbridge and Dustin roads.

The pump and fish screen for the Calfed project are in place, and a pipeline will be installed on Monday, and that should take a week to complete, Steffani said. So the district will be ready — except that it doesn't have any water to use.

North San Joaquin normally would have the water it needs for the project, but it hasn't received any Mokelumne River water because of the dry winter this year.

For more of this story, see Wednesday's News-Sentinel.

Contact reporter Ross Farrow at rossf@lodinews.com.

First published: Tuesday, September 2, 2008