Schwarzenegger Proposes $9 Billion Water Bond Boondoggle

Published: September 18, 2007, 8:30 pm

Tags: water

By Dan Bacher Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's office today issued a press release for the $9 billion water bond boondoggle he is trying to ramrod through the California Legislature. For those us of us concerned about the alarming collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem, this is very bad news, since the measure will fund the peripheral canal and the building of two new dams and the expansion of an existing dam. The measure provides for $5.1 billion in surface storage and identifies three sites for this storage - Sites, Temperance Flat Reservoir and the Los Vaqueros Expansion Project. The Sites Reservoir in the Sacramento Valley and Temperance Flat Reservoir in the San Joaquin Valley are included in the bond, in spite of the fact that the water would cost $1,000 to $2,000 per acre foot. Who is going to buy this water? Schwarzenegger also disguises his plan to build a peripheral canal with his trademark euphemism - the development of a "new conveyance system." The

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