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Goodwin Tunnel is no tunnel of love

Posted by: Maven on October 5, 2009 at 7:08 am

From Stockton’s Record, this editorial:

“Good news: there may be more water in Stockton’s future. Then again, maybe the Delta smelt or the Stanislaus River steelhead will get most of it.

Still, a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals that the federal government is liable for water promised but rarely delivered to the Stockton area is no small victory.

For years, area residents have been paying off the cost of a $65 million tunnel that was supposed to bring water into the Stockton East Water District.

An agreement was reached with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 1983 and construction on the Goodwin Tunnel was started. It took years to finish.

Times changed and so did the rules, in this case environmental rules that caused the Bureau of Reclamation to severely turn down the water spigot. That left local taxpayers on the hook for a multi-million dollar water tunnel through which very little water flowed. …”

Read more of this editorial from the Record by clicking here.

October 5, 2009 · Filed Under San Joaquin Valley

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