[env-trinity] Fwd: SF Chronicle editorial: Delta tunnel troubles

[Tom Stokely]

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*The San Francisco Chronicle Delta tunnel troubles*

Published: January 30, 2016
Original article at SF Chronicle.
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Gov. Jerry Brown wants to spend $3.6 million to incorporate his goal to
build 40-foot-wide, twin 35-mile-long delta tunnels into state planning. In
the scheme of a proposed $17 billion (and probably more costly) project,
the amount tucked into the state budget is tiny. If adopted, however,
future spending and permitting would need to be consistent with its purpose
— to make a “conveyance” part of the state’s Delta Plan.

The Brown administration would say a conveyance plan is already part of the
plan, but we disagree. Time is running out for the ill-advised Water Fix
plan.

Proponents — state water contractors, labor and construction interests, the
governor — are seeing cracks in their coalition. The contractors
association, which has footed the bills for the tunnel environmental
studies, has tapped out its members. Without guarantees that the tunnels
will mean more water to ship south, it will be difficult to raise more
funds.

Opponents — delta agricultural interests and environmental groups concerned
about the health of the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary — are trying to
squeeze spending and block legislative action. A bipartisan group of state
senators and Assembly members, as well an allied congressional group, each
has written the governor to argue against the $3.6 million expenditure.
Assemblywoman Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton, has introduced a bill,
AB1713
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requiring voters to approve any “conveyance.” A wealthy Stockton farmer has
put an initiative on the November ballot also requiring a vote of the
people for bond-funded expenditures exceeding $2 billion.

Those of us who live by the bay know its health relies on healthy flows of
delta water. Tunnels are no fix for that, governor.





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