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Delta canal measure put on hold
Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 15:29.Delta canal measure put on hold
By E.J. Schultz - eschultz@fresnobee.com
Published 12:00 am PDT Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Story appeared in Sacramento Bee MAIN NEWS section, Page A3
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An Assembly committee on Tuesday shelved legislation to build a canal around the suffering Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, telling the bill's author to try again next year.
Two years in the making, Senate Bill 27 tackled a subject so politically charged that author Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, carefully avoided using the "P" word – Peripheral Canal – as he presented the bill as a way to shore up state water supplies without harming the environment.
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Submitted by Lloyd Carter on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 14:50.Contra Costa Times – December 8, 2007
By Mike Taugher, staff writer
Customers of one of the state's largest water delivery systems secretly commissioned a study last year to estimate how much it would cost to build a highly controversial peripheral canal to deliver water around the Delta.
The $50,000 study, completed in August 2006, shows that contractors of the State Water Project were actively considering a new canal similar to the aqueduct voters killed in 1982.
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