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Peripheral canal bill shelved in committee; bill’s author told to try again next year

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 29, 2008 at 4:09 pm

From the Sacramento Bee:

An Assembly committee on Tuesday shelved legislation to build a canal around the suffering Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, telling the bill’s author to try again next year.

Two years in the making, Senate Bill 27 tackled a subject so politically charged that author, Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, carefully avoided using the “P” word — peripheral canal — as he presented the bill as a way to shore up state water supplies without harming the environment.

But with environmentalists, farmers and Delta-area interests all opposed for different reasons, the legislation went the way of so many other water bills — to the shelf to wait for more studies. “We don’t know what will fix this yet … so to leap to the conclusion that it is a conveyance facility and to focus attention on that I think truly is premature,” said Assemblywoman Lois Wolk, D-Davis, head of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee.

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April 29, 2008 · Filed Under Peripheral Canal

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One Response to “Peripheral canal bill shelved in committee; bill’s author told to try again next year”

  1. Ray Walker on April 30th, 2008 5:18 am

    California….Would one million acre feet of fresh water help ? 21,000 desalination plants worldwide only produce 3 million acre feet of fresh water a year. The truly new fresh water Source of ONE MILLION acre feet can be developed without damage to anyone’s water rights or the environment. Excess water from the Source could also keep Lake Mead producing 1800 megawatts/year of electricty for California. Quagga Mussels can’t plug up the Source. Wonder if the Big One will wait until next year to strike the Delta….? WaterSource waterrdw@yahoo.com

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