It was back in the 70’s that Jerry Brown stopped much of the future plans of a state water system to bring water from the more moist north to the arid south. Isn’t it amazing that now he sees a need so he is going to spend a billion bucks to make it happen.
Wow...the wages of sin Jerry will destroy a once great state. As a Native son I think I can say that i made a great decision when I moved away from California in 1997 never to return again to live.
Freegards
LEX
The Delta Tunnel project is actually going to cost over $100 BILLION dollars - not just a mere one billion.
In the early days of the CVPIA struggles on water and the environment, every solution was to take more water from the North. The Klamath River system (Trinity river tributary) was sending 80% of its water to the Central Valley.
It was discovered that the flows were needed in the Trinity and Klamath to perform functions such as gravel transport to renew salmon spawning beds and spring floods of edge habitat to provide transport for young smolts away from the strong mid-river currents. There are even studies as to how flows effect the proliferation of two parasites (C-Shasta and parvacapsula minibicornis) that have been killing mass numbers of juvenile fish.
A lawsuit by local tribes had the diversions south reduced to 50% of the rivers flow.
Sorry, but draining the north state is not the solution. In fact, NOAA fisheries is proposing to introduce endangered salmon above the Shasta Dam, which will require even more regulation on use and flow to provide for their local needs.
CA and the US may have to face that you can’t have both fish and farms/cities.