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color:#053C63'>Drills to test idea of Delta tunnel<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:7.5pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black'>July 12, 2010 12:00 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The Delta will be poked and
prodded again starting next month, as the state drills hundreds of holes into
river bottoms, banks and islands.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The goal: to learn more
about building a 43-mile tunnel to take much of California's water supply from
the estuary.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Meanwhile, 160 new letters
were sent Thursday to Delta property owners, seeking permission to access their
lands for drilling and other survey work. Many similar requests already have
been denied, spurring an ongoing legal fight.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#043D63'>To comment<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf1 style='background:#E1E8EC'><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Read the drilling
plan at http://tinyurl.com/29jskrb. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf1 style='background:#E1E8EC'><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>To comment by July
31, <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf1 style='background:#E1E8EC'><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>e-mail Michelle
Beachley at mbeachle@water.ca.gov, or write to Beachley at the Department of
Water <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf1 style='background:#E1E8EC'><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Resources, Division
of Environmental Services, PO Box 942836, Sacramento, CA 94236-0001.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The drilling is part of the
Bay Delta Conservation Plan, an effort to secure the state's water while also
restoring tens of thousands of acres of wetland habitat in the Delta.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>That plan is zeroing in on
some kind of peripheral canal or tunnel to divert fresh water from the
Sacramento River past the Delta to giant export pumps near Tracy.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Some drilling already has
occurred. But more is needed now that a tunnel is seriously considered as an
alternative to the long-studied canal, officials say.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>A map of the drilling sites
reveals the apparent route of the tunnel, slicing north to south through the
heart of the Delta.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Here's what the state plans
to do:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>» River drilling.
About 80 holes less than a half-foot in diameter will be drilled into river
bottoms from boats or barges anchored in more than a dozen waterways, from the
Sacramento River in the north to Old River in the south. Any tunnel would have
to pass beneath these streams.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Officials say the work will
not affect public access to the waterways.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>» Land drilling. Holes
also will be drilled in 220 to 240 land locations, with the holes varying in
depth from 5 feet to 500 feet.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>» Canal or tunnel
intakes. Many of the drilling sites are clustered on the Sacramento River near
Hood, where the diversion would begin. Depending on the size of the canal or
tunnel - and that is a subject of much debate - water would be diverted from up
to five intakes, and pushed into the canal or tunnel by powerful pumps capable
of moving anywhere from 3,000 to 15,000 cubic feet of water per second.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The tunnel option would
actually include two twin tubes, which could range from 18 feet to 33 feet in
diameter. Cost estimates also vary based on size, from $7.3 billion to $12.3
billion.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>But landowners are resisting
even before a final decision is made.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Some of the latest drilling
is proposed on properties whose owners refuse to allow the state access. The
state has since sued; more than 150 cases have been clustered together and are
pending in a San Joaquin County courtroom.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>"We'll do (those
properties) when we get access," said Matt Notley, a spokesman for the
state Department of Water Resources.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Another batch of land-entry
requests went out Thursday, he said. Of those 160 requests, 39 will go to
landowners in San Joaquin County.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Not all landowners have been
uncooperative.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>"Generally speaking, on
the ground the experience of folks that have been out there doing the work has
been pretty constructive," said Karla Nemeth, a spokeswoman for the Bay
Delta Conservation Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Farmers fear that the Delta
as we know it will die with its fresh water diverted. And a tunnel hasn't eased
their concerns, even though it would have a smaller footprint than a surface
canal, said Bruce Blodgett, head of the San Joaquin Farm Bureau Federation.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>"It's still water
that's going to be taken out of the system," Blodgett said.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Not all of the drilling to
begin next month is directly related to a tunnel. Work is also planned to
investigate areas that might be converted to wetland habitat, another key component
of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=articlegraf style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>The drilling could continue
through 2012. River drilling, however, will occur only in the months of August,
September and October.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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