Commentary: California Gov. Gavin Newsom had to concede defeat on trying to get the Legislature to give a very contentious water tunnel project streamlined regulatory treatment. 📝 DanCALmatters
It was a clear win for the tunnel’s opponents. “However, this play by the governor makes it clear that he and DWR will seek to change any rules to move the Delta tunnel forward while excluding the people of the region,” Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, said in a statement. “It is time for him and DWR to drop the project, that nobody supports, and to get busy on meaningful reforms and projects to restore the Delta and secure California’s water future.
Over the decades of having water pumped out of the Delta and into federal and state canals for delivery southward, the West Coast’s largest estuary has been degraded by reduced inflows of freshwater from upstream agricultural diversions and internal flow disturbances from export pumping.by changes in the Delta’s natural plumbing. Project advocates say bypassing the Delta, along with reducing upstream diversions, would improve its health.
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