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State begins survey to determine possible peripheral canal routes

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 31, 2008 at 7:02 am

From Stockton’s Record, this article from the opinion section (which seems to be to be more of a news article than an opinion article):

About 1,000 property owners in the Delta are going to get a wake up call from state officials. Letters are going out from the state Department of Water Resources saying that surveyors may need access to private land to begin planning a canal to carry fresh water to Southern California.

California voters overwhelmingly rejected a similar project, known as the peripheral canal, in 1982. But it’s back as state officials and thirsty water consumers – and that would be all of us – try to balance the needs of the environmentally fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta against the growing demand for water, especially in the Bay Area and Southern California.

About 25 million Californians drink water from the Delta.

Water planners have identified four tentative canal routes on the east and west of the Delta. In addition, there is talk of a “through Delta” canal.

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July 31, 2008 · Filed Under Peripheral Canal

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