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DAVID N. KENNEDY
Pages 110-115

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... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 110 3/23/10 3:42:16 PM
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... He died December 23, 2007, at age 71 in Sacramento. He was elected into the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for "planning and management of water resources." Born in Oregon in 1936, David was the son of a civil engineer who in later years retired as a professor from the UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering.
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... Toward the end of his career at MWD, David was engaged in California's epic water-policy battles, centered mostly on the construction of the Peripheral Canal, a conveyance facility to move water around the eastern edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to pumps that would deliver water to agricultural and urban users for state and federal projects in the Bay Area, the Central Valley, and Southern California. This project continues to be the focal point of California's water disputes.
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... When Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt called upon California to develop a plan to live within its 4.4 million acre foot entitlement from the Colorado River, a reduction of 700,000 acre feet, David was asked to mediate between California's water users. He developed potential water savings through agreements, recovery of canal seepage, conjunctive use, and desalination of drainage water.
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... David wrote the forward to the new edition and helped arrange for its publication by the University of California Press. In 1997 UC Berkeley honored David Kennedy with its Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award.
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... He is survived by his wife, Barbara, of Sacramento, California; daughters Ann Kennedy Watembach, also of Sacramento, and Susan Orttung of Arlington, Virginia; son, Richard Kennedy of Brea, California; sister, Colleen Engstrom of Walnut Creek, California; six grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 115 3/23/10 3:42:17 PM
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