Friant,CA--- Mario Santoyo, Friant Water Authority, scratches his head while giving a tour of Millerton Lake which is fed by the San Joaquin River on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. The Friant Water Authority is lobbying for a new reservoir at Temperance Flat which is just East of Millerton Lake. The Friant Water Authority would be the chief beneficiary of the new project.  The price tag for the project is some $3.36 billion and could be built in 15 years.  It would provide 1,200,000 acre-feet of storage and an additional 160,000 acre-feet of usable annual water. Critics of the dam and reservoir say that the price tag is too high. The Friant Water District say the reservoir would make more water available in the Central Valley. Photo by Tomas Ovalle