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Congress allocates money for local water projects

Congress has allocated more than $11 million for water projects in San Joaquin County, including money for the Mokelumne River, the groundwater basin, the Lodi area and Delta levee repairs, according to Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton.

The allocations, recently signed by President Obama, include $233,000 toward planning and development of additional Mokelumne River water storage, and another $484,000 for the Farmington Groundwater Recharge Project, which is intended to help replenish the depleting groundwater basin east and south of Lodi.

"These funds are also an injection of much-needed capital in the local economy," McNerney said in a news release. "Our area needs the jobs that projects like these can help create and save."

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