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Sunday’s top of the scroll: Sacramento Delta farmers, families fret over potential canal

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on December 20, 2009 at 9:01 am

delta by meFrom the Sacramento Bee:

” … Lifelong farmers Wally Chan, Graham Connor, Bill Correa and hundreds of other Delta families are heirs to a river culture that spans races and reaches deep into California history.

It’s a culture they fear will be washed away by the state’s $10 billion project to build a canal or tunnel to divert water to Southern California.

The Schwarzenegger administration – which says the project will help restore the Delta’s environment – plans to start building in 2011 even without voter approval.

Delta dwellers say the project will kill the Delta lifestyle. Thousands of acres of farmland could be turned into salt marshes, making ghost towns of Hood, Courtland and Clarksburg.

Now, the Delta nights sparkle with Christmas displays on the docks that reflect colorfully across the river. Pear king Wally Chan – whose Chinese grandfather fled the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to grow Bartlett pears on Grand Island – decorates his tractors with Christmas lights. … “

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December 20, 2009 · Filed Under Peripheral Canal

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