Administrative Action Requested on Cadiz Water Infrastructure Project
Blueprint 2025 today announced it has joined the North American Building Trades Unions in a written request to the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Transportation seeking action in support of the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery & Storage Project (Cadiz Water Project), a priority infrastructure project for both organizations and for the country.
The Cadiz Water Project is a public-private partnership that will provide clean, reliable water to 400,000 people in Southern California by conserving groundwater presently lost to evaporation and salinization in the Mojave Desert. The project, which will be privately-financed, will serve a critical supplemental water supply need in Southern California and help the region better address its chronic water supply challenges.
“The Cadiz Water Project is a tremendous example of the kind of creative solutions that a motivated private sector developer brings to public value creation,” Norman F. Anderson, Chairman of Blueprint 2025, said.
In addition to the generation of 6,000 jobs over the two phases of the project, with jobs reserved for building trades unions and veterans, the project will add $6 million per year to the local tax base and contribute $6.1 billion in economic benefits to water rate payers benefitted by the availability of this additional water supply.
“Projects that meet every test and survive rigorous environmental review should be applauded, not impeded,” CG/LA CEO Norman Anderson and NABTU General President Sean McGarvey jointly said. “We support the Cadiz Water Project and stand in ardent opposition to those that seek to delay or deny it. We urge Interior and the Administration to make right the BLM’s unfortunate historic treatment of this important project.”
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