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Standing on a site overlooking the $121 million $5 million dollar bill which will appropriate money to develop this area as a recreational facility. Once the dam is completed, this bill, authored by Assemblyman Carly porter assures the continual the continuing recreation development Around the 17 reservoirs of

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the great California aqueduct and other facilities of the California Water Project. The primary purpose of the water project, of course, is to conserve and deliver water More than four million acre feet a year to the factory, to the farm, to the home and the areas of

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need throughout this great big state. When completed, the multi billion dollar project will carry water from Oroville on the feather River almost 900 miles to southern California while irrigating thousands of acres of farmland. Along the way. The dam itself will be 770 ft high and almost

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7000 ft wide, making it the second highest earth and rock fill dam in the world. The governor has stated that his campaign will be based on his record over the past eight years and there certainly is no question that he considers the Oroville Dam one of

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the great monuments to his administration. This is Roland post with the Governor's party in Oroville. Governor Brown officially opened his northern California campaign tour today by performing an official act of business. This is a historic day in the development of the California Water project, assigning a

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few acts since I've been governor have given me more pleasure than signing this A B 12, which I've just signed. I'm pleased to report today that we've reached the halfway point in the first decade of construction, that the project is being built exactly as planned, precisely

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on schedule and within cost estimates. We are delivering water today, as you all know, to both Alameda and Santa Clara counties. In 1968, we will complete water delivery to the san Joaquin Valley In 1971. Five years from now, we will deliver water to Los Angeles County

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and in 1972 to San Bernardino and Riverside counties. This is exactly what we promised five years ago. This is exactly what's happening. Led by officials of the State Department of Water Resources. The governor was shown the newest features of the dam and took a short tour

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around the construction area. It's the key facility to the entire California water program.