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STATE OKS WATER GRAB
Deal will leave New Melones dry 12 times every 95 years
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New Melones Reservoir water storage could dry up 12 times every 95 years under adopted state plan.
State water officials Wednesday approved a plan to increase water flows in the Lower San Joaquin River that has a high likelihood of New Melones Reservoir — based on the planned diversion and historic hydrology on the Stanislaus River Basin — going dry 12 times every 95 years.