Interesting article, curious to know your thoughts regarding potential financial impact on our industry, local home owners, and towns like Brentwood and Byron if water were in fact diverted.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/16911240/detail.html Some snippets:
-The PPIC report recommends California build a canal to pipe fresh water from the Sacramento River around the delta instead of continuing to send it through a changing and unstable estuary.
-The study says continuing to channel water through the delta's maze of levees is risky and costly/would be a waste of taxpayer money.
-"Ultimately there are two choices: no exports or a peripheral canal. Keeping the delta as it is, is not one of them," said co-author Jay Lund, an engineering professor at the University of California, Davis.
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