Excellent news for the Northstate! The blistering comments attacking the environmental review for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) have forced the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to regroup and delay approvals for building the massive Twin Tunnels and extracting the water to fill them from our region. DWR saw they would lose badly in court, so they plan to recirculate parts of the environmental review after they attempt to repair the gaping holes in their analysis.
Our comments attack DWR’s failure to disclose that:
- increased water transfers would occur with BDCP
- the groundwater in the Sacramento Valley is already strained
- the geology of the region includes the important Cascade Mountain Range (something they seem not to know)
- and more
Our expert’s comments describe the complete inadequacy of the models used for the BDCP analysis.
Please click a link for:
- Comments submitted by AquAlliance
- Project modeling analysis prepared for AquAlliance by Professor Kyran Mish
- Sacramento Bee article by Matt Weiser, California officials delay massive Delta water tunnel project (8.27.14)