Delta Caucus Calls On Legislature To Once Again Reject Plan To Fast-Track Delta Tunnel

The California Legislative Delta Caucus on August 6 had to urge leaders of the California Senate and Assembly to reject Gov. Gavin Newsom’s renewed effort to fast-track the salmon-killing Delta Tunnel Project.

“The governor on Wednesday renewed his request that the Legislature approve his fast-tracking proposal before the end of this year’s Legislative session in September. In June, the Legislature rejected the governor’s attempt to include the fast-tracking plan in the state budge,” according to a press release from the California Legislative Delta Caucus.

On the same day, the governor also proposed to create a $200 million “community benefits” plan for Delta communities that “will be severely impacted by the 45-mile-long, $20 billion-plus water tunnel, should it ever be built,” the Caucus reported.

“The Legislature rightly rejected the governor’s ill-conceived plan to fast-track the Delta Tunnel Project in June and should reject it again,” said Delta Caucus co-chairs, Senator Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, and Assemblywoman Lori D. Wilson, D-Suisun City. “Delta communities that will be devastated by this unaffordable and unnecessary project cannot be bought off with $200 million.”

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