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  • What next for Gov. Brown’s ‘twin tunnels’ project?

    http://www.dailydemocrat.com/article/NI/20170923/NEWS/170929921 By Steve Schoonover Posted: 09/23/17, 6:00 AM PDT The decision Tuesday by the largest irrigation district in the state to not participate in the project to put two tunnels underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta has been hailed by opponents of the project as a sign the project is dead. But the financing of…

  • Coalition Reopens Fight for Improved Emergency Spillway at Oroville Dam

    https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/09/19/coalition-reopens-fight-for-improved-emergency-spillway-at-oroville-dam/ By Dan Brekke September 19, 2017 A coalition of California environmental groups is calling on the California Department of Water Resources to build a complete, functional emergency spillway at Oroville Dam as part of a sweeping program to improve dam safety and flood control practices across the state and beyond. The conservation coalition —…

  • Group that issued 2005 warning still wants full emergency spillway at Oroville Dam

    http://www.chicoer.com/general-news/20170919/group-that-issued-2005-warning-still-wants-full-emergency-spillway-at-oroville-dam By Steve Schoonover, Chico Enterprise-Record Posted: 09/19/17, 6:36 PM PDT Oroville >> The group that 12 years ago warned the Oroville Dam emergency spillway could fail, Tuesday released a new set of recommendations for operation of the dam and the Feather River flood control system. “It’s not enough to be right in the rearview…

  • Flood of lawsuits filed in effort to stop governor’s tunnels scheme

    http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=33167 SACRAMENTO August 21, 2017 9:01pm Cities, towns and counties in the California Delta and Northern California, along with environmental groups and property owners are taking on one of the biggest legal challenges to Gov. Edmund Brown Jr. since Californians rejected his Peripheral Canal in 1982. Now, the counties and cities are trying to stop…

  • Avalanche of Lawsuits Against Delta Tunnels Hit The Courts!

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/21/1692067/-Avalanche-of-Lawsuits-Against-Delta-Tunnels-Hit-The-Court By Dan Bacher 2017/08/21 · 11:35 An avalanche of lawsuits against Governor Jerry Brown and President Donald Trump’s Delta Tunnels project has hit the courts. Today a coalition of groups filed a lawsuit against the Tunnels, considered by opponents to be the most environmentally destructive public works project in California history, in Sacramento Superior…