By Bob Walsh
Last month the Dept of Water Resources (DWR), a CA state
agency, approved the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Delta
Conveyance, the official title of the delta bypass tunnel that will, if
completed, suck at least 500,000 acre feet of water a year out of the
Sacramento River, bypassing the delta and shipping it down south to
those greedy bastards who live in a desert and want green lawns and golf
courses.
There have now
been eight lawsuits filed against this action. The suits are filed
under the California Environmental Quality Act. The suits assert
(accurately) that this proposed diversion would adversely affect various
species of critters, some of them endangered, as well as the fiscal
health of many multi-generational family farms. The actual construction
would also impact Native American cultural sites and almost certainly
affect the remains of Native people.
With any sort of luck this will take years to settle and the project will die a natural death.
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