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Farmers file lawsuit over canal; They challenge process for approving Delta plan

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 15, 2009 at 8:51 am

This lawsuit is the same one that was at the top of the scroll yesterday, but here’s the story from Stockton’s Record:

Delta farmers have fired their first shot in the battle over a peripheral canal. They have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the process by which a canal might be approved. “It’s our first effort to get the state and federal public officials to comply with the law,” said Stockton attorney Dante Nomellini, who represents the plaintiff Central Delta Water Agency.

Farmers worry a peripheral canal would siphon much of the Delta’s fresh water around the estuary to pumps that send the flows to two-thirds of California. A canal is favored by participants in the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, a huge effort that purports to meet the Delta’s ecosystem and water supply goals of the future.

Central Delta and its counterpart, the South Delta Water Agency, claim the plan’s participants – the state and federal governments, water districts and some environmental groups – have not given the public enough detailed information to solicit educated comments. The lawsuit, filed at U.S. District Court in Sacramento, names no fewer than 68 individuals, agencies and entities as defendants.

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April 15, 2009 · Filed Under Peripheral Canal

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