By Bob Walsh
What California can expect: Over budget and behind schedule. Pictured: Crews work in a hydro tunnel being built under the City of Niagara Falls. The project is $615 million over budget and four years behind.
Two interesting things happened yesterday with regards to water in the formerly great state of California.
The E.I.R. was more-or-less approved for the massive diversion tunnel designed to steal water from the Sacramento River and send it to L.A. so those idiots living in a desert can have nice green lawns. There will still be plenty of hurdles and objections so don't hold your breath on this on L.A.
Also a tentative approval was given for the Sites Reservoir, and a lawsuit was promptly filed by appropriate fish huggers. If all the opposition went away that new reservoir could be operational in seven years. Assuming it actually happens 15 or 20 years is a more reasonable guesstimate.
1 comment:
Kind of like the Boston Tunnel or CA High-Speed Rail. Way too slow, way too expensive, way too little (compared to what was promised).
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