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Record editorial: Standing their ground – 170 Delta landowners resist push toward peripheral canal

Posted by: Maven on January 11, 2010 at 8:06 am

From Stockton’s Record, this editorial:

“State water officials are seeking access to 170 Delta properties whose owners are saying no. But this access dispute has less to do with property rights and privacy than with the state’s obvious interest in digging a ditch – a peripheral canal – to take north state water around the Delta and ship it south.

These landowners, some of them anyway, are trying to block a water project they believe is ill-conceived, being rammed down their throats or both.

No peripheral canal, which supporter Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger likes to call a conveyance system, has been formally proposed, let alone approved. But the just-passed package of five state water bills allows it to happen, and a seven-member Delta panel that will oversee state water issues will have the power to make it happen. The fact that the governor will name four of the panel’s seven members is a pretty clear indication that’s the direction the state is headed, the lack of a strong scientific or engineering basis and the concerns of Delta region residents and officials be damned. … “

Read more of this Record editorial by clicking here.

January 11, 2010 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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