Critics of Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to build massive water conveyance tunnels under the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta are launching a political action committee to battle any water bond that could facilitate the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. Their goal is to raise at least $1 million for the effort.
“Legally they cannot build the tunnels unless they fund the mitigation of it, and this is the mitigation,” said Hopcraft. “The water exporters are paying for the construction and then they’re sticking the taxpayers with the bill for all the mitigation of the damage.”
Aiding the effort will be former state senator Mike Machado, a Linden Democrat, and Tom Zuckerman, an attorney for the Central Delta Water Agency.