Dan Walters: New water bond could make Delta tunnels unnecessary

  • by BPC Staff
  • on August 17, 2014
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From the Sacramento Bee: 

Dan Walters: New water bond could make Delta tunnels unnecessary

Published: Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 – 12:00 am
Last Modified: Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014 – 12:27 am

As Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders hammered out a water bond deal last week, one very high priority was making it “tunnel-neutral.”

In a way, that’s a bit odd, since Brown has hoped that boring twin water tunnels beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta would be one of his legacies.

However, the decades-old proposal to bypass the Delta in water deliveries to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California is highly controversial, and were the bond measure’s projects to be obviously connected, it could easily doom passage on Nov. 4.

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