<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377155" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=32251" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377479" class="">http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=32251</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377488"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377344" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 1.2em; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold;">Despite losing key lawsuit, state forges ahead with Delta Twin Tunnels scheme</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377345" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377343"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377347">by Gene Beley, Delta Correspondent</span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377348"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377349"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377350">SACRAMENTO </span><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377351"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377352">March 12, 2017 9:01pm</span><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); 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font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: dotted; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377368"><div style="vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377369">• Is Brown administration ignoring the courts?</div><div style="vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377370">• “These massive tunnels don’t solve these problems and may aggravate them”</div><div style="vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377371">• WITH EXCLUSIVE VIDEO </div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377372"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377373"><span style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377374">Jan McCleery, a Discovery Bay resident who has been dueling with Gov. Edmund Gerald Brown Jr.’s California Delta tunnel vision for more than eight years with strong, organized support from her upscale community, says it is nearly “unbelievable” that the Delta Stewardship Council is holding workshops to amend the Delta Plan that still promotes the twin tunnels as the first alternative to “fix” the Delta. </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377375"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377376">After all, Discovery Bay Delta residents, along with Friends of the River, Restore the Delta, and others who joined in with them to consult on the arguments, won a lawsuit against the twin tunnels, Mrs. McCleery said. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377377"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377378">She and other Delta advocates, including Restore the Delta, have pointed out for many years now that the present plan would destroy the Delta as a place to live, operate businesses, and attract tourism if construction is allowed to begin on Jerry Brown’s twin tunnels project.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377379"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377380">And some of the stakeholders providing input to the recent DSC. in Sacramento seemed to agree with her.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377381"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377382">Attorney Thomas Zuckerman of Stockton told the DSC staff they have the cart before the horse. “Given the history of the development of the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project, there’s a big deficit in supply on the north side of the Delta that conveyance doesn’t resolve. What I mean by this is, as the State Water Project was developed, there was an assumption plan to develop about five million acre feet of firm annual yield from the North Coast rivers. That went bye-bye for a number of difficult reasons,” he said.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377383"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377384">“The thing that is necessary to understand when we talk about conveyance is the water supply that was contemplated north of the Delta. There is (now) a huge deficit in the system,” Mr. Zuckerman told the meeting. “Just focusing on conveyance and particularly the conveyance that this focuses on now — the tunnels with dual operation — doesn’t really address the problem. The supply was never developed and never will be.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377385"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377386">He added that a conveyance facility such as the governor’s twin tunnels cannot be designed “until you identify what the water supply is that you need to convey.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377387"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377388">If built, Mr. Brown’s scheme would see construction of two massive tunnels – each 40 feet in diameter. That is so large that half of the 43,000 Cessna 172 aircraft ever built could fly in one direction through one tunnel while the other half could be flying through the adjacent tunnel in the other direction. The tunnels would suck fresh and comparatively clean water out of the Sacramento River before the water could flow into the Delta. It would then be piped to the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project for sale to San Joaquin Valley growers, urban users in Southern California and Silicon Valley.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377389"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377390">It would be, in essence, an underground version of Mr. Brown’s voter-rejected Peripheral Canal.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377391"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377392">Robert Wright, senior attorney for Friends of the River and Restore the Delta, told the DSC staff that it appears they don’t understand the discussion in that the draft proposal amendment designates the twin tunnels as the first choice again.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377393"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377394">“This happens sometimes when there is a volume of paperwork produced by consultants where folks don’t really realize the consequences,” he said. “If you adopt the discussed draft amendment, you will be declaring the ‘Water Fix’ water tunnels to be the preferred alternative. Our position is, under the Delta Reform Act, that law specifies that three alternatives must be considered.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377395"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377396">He said the staff may want to come up with many more, “but one of them is through-conveyance. “To be perfectly candid with you, one of them is also dual conveyance. Of course we would love for you to make through Delta conveyance the preferred alternative. The water exporters and the Department of Water Resources would love for you to make dual conveyance the preferred alternative.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377397"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377398">Mr. Wright said the DSC staff needs to change its discussion draft, proposing mandatory approval, to not have the governor’s tunnels as a preferred alternative at this time.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377399"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377400">“Instead, go through and do all the comprehensive review analysis and then make the decision after getting all the evidence and comments—instead of right from the start,” he said.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377401"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377402">“The ballgame is conveyance. Is it going to be through Delta? Dual conveyance water tunnels or isolated conveyance? That’s the ball game and why folks are here. That’s why this thing has been controversial. That’s why there was a peripheral canal fight back in 1981 and 1982,” he said.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377403"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377404"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377405"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377406"></b></div><center style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377407"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377408">The Elephant in the Room</b></center><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377409"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377410">“If the DSC wants to make the water tunnels the preferred alternative in the beginning, we can’t stop you from doing that. But before you do that, we want you to know we really don’t think you should do that,” Mr. Wright said. “This is the elephant in the room.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377411"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377412">Sacramento attorney Osha Meserve, from the Soluri Meserve Law Corp., said more emphasis should be put on investing in improvements of the current system. “That would be the least damaging environmentally,” she said. “The tunnels are doing their own environmental review. The things that need analysis are some of these other options.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377413"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377414">Sam Safi, an associate engineer in policy and planning for the Sacramento Area Sewer District, feels the DSC has a communications problem with the public. He says the presentations made to the public “will make it sound like an irrelevant document.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377415"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377416">Mr. Zuckerman said that after the recent rainstorms, the state needs to revisit flood control issues in the foothill reservoirs. “Apparently we have made some miscalculations that have allowed the dams to spill in some circumstances where they are not designed to spill,” he said.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377417"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377418">“That means these reservoirs are going to provide less water to the system than they have historically. That is a very good reason to go back to this suggestion to look at the available water supply after the need of the downstream and Delta fisheries are satisfied. What we have left — if that is not enough — where are we going to go to develop the additional supply in order to meet reasonable needs? These massive tunnels don’t solve these problems and may aggravate them and is the wrong approach.”</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377419"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377420">Mrs. McCleery said there will be a Town Hall meeting in Discovery Bay’s Elementary School Gymnasium at 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 13 to rally residents against the tunnels preferred plan being pushed by the Department of Water Resources and the DSC.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377421"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377422">Watch the DSC at work in this video:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377423"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/207903541" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377424"></iframe></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-bottom: 6px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top; text-indent: 9px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377425"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377426"><a href="https://vimeo.com/207903541" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377427">Delta Stewardship Council Meeting 3-9-17—Breakout session input to D.S.C</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user2237027" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377428">Gene Beley</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); vertical-align: top;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377429">Vimeo</a>.</div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377163"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489170701745_377169"><br></div></div></div></body></html>