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Tuesday’s top of the scroll: Wolk says money, time will keep peripheral canal at bay

Posted by: Maven on November 17, 2009 at 8:35 am

Delta #3 03-2009From Stockton’s Record:

“A 49-mile canal carrying water around the Delta is the wrong solution for Southern California, and it is too expensive and “won’t ever get done,” State Sen. Lois Wolk said.

Wolk, D-Davis, is still steaming about the process that led to legislation Nov. 4 designed to reform state water policy. She told The Record’s editorial board Monday that, realistically, the efforts were a waste.

“It was awful, incredibly awful,” Wolk said. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”

She said the legislation was written by Westlands Water District, which serves western Fresno and Kings counties, and the Metropolitan Water District, which serves much of Southern California. “They wrote it in private meetings, and then it emerged in the middle of the night.”

Wolk estimated total canal costs, including landowner and environmental mitigation, at somewhere between $38 billion and $60 billion. She also said construction will take “50 years – or never.” … “

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November 17, 2009 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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One Response to “Tuesday’s top of the scroll: Wolk says money, time will keep peripheral canal at bay”

  1. Linda Morse-Robertson on November 18th, 2009 9:37 am

    BRAVO LOIS!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so thankful here on Bethel Island that you are fighting for ALL of us,not just corporate sponsors of the Delta destroying water bills passed behind closed doors….Please keep up the fight for ALL Delta residents who have been denied their constitutional rights on this issue…and THANK YOU again….

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