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Crowd unleashes flood of comments at peripheral canal meeting in Stockton

Posted by: Maven on March 25, 2009 at 8:15 am

From Stockton’s Record:

STOCKTON – Same issue, same building, different decade.

About 120 people gathered Tuesday night at the Stockton Memorial Civic Auditorium for a chance to vent to the powers that be over plans to build a peripheral canal.

Fifteen years ago, some of the same folks met in the same auditorium as part of the CALFED process, which was supposed to fix the ailing Delta but today is viewed by many as a failure.

On Tuesday, state officials displayed new maps showing a proposed canal taking water from the Sacramento River and shipping it down the east side of the Delta, tunneling under the San Joaquin River at Rindge Tract, west of Stockton, on its way to the massive pumps near Tracy, and from there to the Bay Area and Southern California.

“Didn’t most of that land use to be desert anyway?” asked 25-year-old Blake Joaquin, a wakeboarder. “Why should we give them our water? I don’t understand.”

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March 25, 2009 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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