[env-trinity] Western Water magazine: Delta at a Crossroads

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New Western Water Magazine Issue Available
The Delta at a Crossroads

 
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AvailableIn the recently released Spring 2016 issue of the Water Education
Foundation's Western Water, Writer Gary Pitzer delves into the dilemma of
balancing needs for the economy and the environ-ment in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta and the impor-tance of transporting water to the south.

Pitzer discusses the California WaterFix, a $15 billion plan supported by
the state of California and the federal government that would involve a
major re-working of the Delta plumbing system.

At the heart of the plan are three intakes in the northern Delta on the
Sacramento River that would feed twin tunnels - 40 feet wide, 39 miles long
and 150 feet under-ground. The tunnels would transport water under the Delta
to the existing state and federal pumping facilities in the southern Delta
near Tracy to be transported hundreds of miles to homes in the Bay Area and
Southern California and to farm fields in the San Joaquin Valley via the
State Water Project (SWP) and the federal Central Valley Project (CVP).

The proposed project is not without its critics and hurdles. The article
explores Gov. Jerry Brown's resolve to construct the tunnels, proposed
legislation that would require ballot-box approval, the pending water rights
hearing for the tunnels' intake and water users' frustration over reduced
Delta exports despite the improved precipi-tation in early 2016 following
several years of drought.

Read the
<http://www.watereducation.org/western-water-excerpt/delta-crossroads>
excerpt from this issue. You can also subscribe to a
<http://www.watereducation.org/print-edition> print or
<http://www.watereducation.org/digital-edition> digital, interactive version
of our quarterly magazine.

 

 

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