This sounds like the peripheral canal that was proposed many years ago and was shot down.
To paraphrase Mark Twain: “Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting.”
I am so glad I do not live in California anymore. I really feel bad for those farmers in the Delta. As long as the Democrats have a super-majority in California, we will see more stories like this.
More BS projects to enrich Richard Blum, the Chandler family, and CALPERS.
The problem for Politics is that you cannot steal millions without shifting billions. So suddenly California the bankruptcy King of States just has to have high speed trains and major construction projects.
Nothing left to steal. And with the fall of the dollar, you gotta steal so much more just to have a swiming pool in your old age.
All the farmers need to do to stop the project in its tracks is to report the sighting of some kind of fauna or flora that is an endangered species. A little research will turn up plenty of candidates, but rare spiders, frogs, snails and small fish are best because confirmation is difficult.
Major developments in Texas were stopped by radical environmentalists by citing some rare minnows in a spring and some blind spiders in a cave.
What’s good for the goose...
UPDATE on this story: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/05/5624821/study-estimates-5-billion-benefit.html
The State of California now claims $5 billion in economic benefits from this project that’ll eradicate some 175,000 acres of farmland, dispossess over 40,000 people, and turn the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into a saltwater wasteland.