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Delta Vision goes to Stockton: peripheral canal foes say Delta promises broken

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on August 29, 2008 at 8:14 am

From Stockton’s Record:

The government should keep its promises. So said farmers, anglers and water lawyers who got one last chance Thursday to protest a plan proposing a peripheral canal as the “linchpin” of the state’s future water system. The canal would take water from the Sacramento River near Hood and skirt it around the central Delta to state and federal pumps near Tracy, and from there to farms and cities as far south as San Diego.

One problem, critics say: The government historically promised that the Delta’s needs would come first. Only surplus water would be shipped south. “What is currently conveyed to the south is already too much water, and the Delta tells us so,” said Dave Scatena, a fisherman.

One Delta Vision member was on hand to listen to public comments on the Strategic Plan (they really sent only one guy to Stockton to promote the peripheral canal?) and although he said that “very little of the report is “in concrete” and that the public comments taken Thursday would help shape the final version,” many attendees feel it is already a done deal, but vowed to fight on.

Millions of acre-feet of water were supposed to come from rivers on California’s north coast – rivers that were deemed wild and scenic and could not be tapped. Even though that water never materialized, exports from the Delta soared.

“You people have bought into this idea of co-equality” of the environment and water supplies, Nomellini told Frank. “That turns upside-down the whole promise … that the needs of Northern California come first.”

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August 29, 2008 · Filed Under Delta Vision Task Force

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