Posted on 07/28/2022 2:53:35 AM PDT by Libloather
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A new plan to reroute how water moves from wetter Northern California to drier Southern California would ferry some of it through a single, 45-mile (72-kilometer) underground tunnel, wrapping around the state’s existing water delivery system and dumping it into the main aqueduct that flows south to vast swaths of farmland and millions of people.
The proposal released Wednesday would build one tunnel to take water from the Sacramento River, the state's largest, to the California Aqueduct for delivery further south. It's scaled back from the two-tunnel plan championed by former Gov. Jerry Brown and the latest iteration of a project that has been talked about and planned in some form, but never constructed, for about half a century.
When Gov. Gavin Newsom took office in 2019, he ordered water officials to scrap the existing plan and start over. With one tunnel, the new proposal moves less water and aims to reduce harms to the environment. But most critics say the new route will still harm endangered species like salmon and people who rely on the water in the north.
The two sides have become so entrenched that the project's fate will ultimately depend on whether Newsom or a future governor can muster the political will to push it through, said Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow with the Water Policy Center at the Public Policy Institute of California.
“This project is unlikely to be decided on its technical merits," he said.
State water officials say a tunnel is badly needed to modernize the state's water infrastructure in the face of climate change, which scientists say is likely to cause both prolonged droughts and major deluges of rain and snow.
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Screw LA. Leave our water alone. Put in the damn desalination plant you idiots. You morons spend piles of money to give free s^^t to illegals but keep voting down the desalination plant.
LA is in a desert with NO WATER in the area. Put in the damn plant and leave the north state the hell alone!
No wonder everyone who can is leaving this idiot run state.
It’s not like the central coast up to Mendocino is a lush oasis with plentiful water.
When I put in my waterline for my property, I used 1 1/2 inch pvc. If had to dig a ditch, cut and connect pipe, etc., the labor was the same for that as for 3/4 inch. The pipe cost a little more, but I have flow everywhere!
Same for the thinking on the CA water tunnel.
But Nuke powered desalinization would be great. No tunnels needed, no stealing from NorCal, ....
Hilarious that they are playing the “climate change” card to try to get the project past environmentalists.
Liars trying to con liars.
May the biggest liar win!
Indeed they have turned down many requests to build desalination plants because they block their view of the ocean.
They may die of thirst but by God they have a view.
Forget Jim it’s California
It would take more than 1, most likely 6. Each can produce 50 million gallons of water a day through osmosis.
This is California we're talking about, here.
The mere down payment will likely be more than $1.5 TRILLION -
AND it will take ETERNITY to complete - it will NEVER be done - Ever.
The democrats will just dump more water from the reservoirs to the ocean instead saving it for future droughts.
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