I took two three more impressions from ACWA’s alternate Delta Plan.
- It is not a plan to engage the physical world, since that might mean some local agencies be constrained from doing whatever they want. Instead, it is a plan to do harmless intra-state coordination and write a bunch of reports. At the very best, it does not much of anything for several more years, which the signatories evidently prefer to anything that smacks of regulation. If ACWA does manage to get this included as an alternate plan in the EIR and it is somehow selected as the chosen alternative, it will be a textbook perfect example of how California dithers for decades while levees, canals and fish populations crumble.
- Boy howdy would ACWA and those signatories like the state to pass out money. Money, money, money, flowing one way from the state to regions and locals. Better, faster grants. Money.
- As befits a bunch of water users, their section on accelerating surface storage and conveyance was concrete and detailed. I read somewhere that the DSC’s 4th Draft still doesn’t say anything about a Peripheral Canal. If you want help with that part, ACWA and its buddies could write you some real nice text for getting those built.
- An almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.
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