The “ REAL ” Fall RV Show At Cal Expo Sept . 7-10 Is Underway !
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An Avalanche Of Lawsuits Challenges Delta Tunnels !
Sept . 15 - 30 , 2017
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An avalanche of lawsuits against Delta Tunnels , a joint public works project between the Jerry Brown and Donald Trump administrations , has hit the courts .
The final tally of the Delta Tunnels lawsuits filed under the California Environmental Quality Act ( CEQA ) is 18 cases brought by 80 plaintiffs , according to Alex Breitler of the Stockton Record . Read them here : https :// t . co / NlVev0SuMw
On August 21 , a coalition of fishing and conservation 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 Court .
The groups include the AquAlliance , California Sportfishing Protection Alliance , California Water Impact Network , Center for Biological Diversity , Center for Food Safety , Friends of the River , Friends of Stone Lakes National Wildlife Refuge , Planning and Conservation League , Restore the Delta , Save Our Sandhill Cranes and Sierra Club California .
“ Once again Big Ag in the San Joaquin Valley has come begging for more corporate welfare ,” said Adam Keats , a senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety . “ Only this time it ’ s at an obscene scale , with tens of billions of dollars to be pilfered from the people ’ s pockets , an entire ecosystem driven to collapse , and incredible harm caused to the Delta farming economy and California ’ s sustainable salmon fishery .”
“ The environmental impact report is an 80,000 page omelet of distortion and half-truth pretending that massive water diversions won ’ t harm this severely degraded estuary ,” said Bill Jennings of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance . “ The Delta has already been deprived of most of its natural flow . This project would push native fisheries into extinction and significantly diminish the quality of water to farmers , municipalities and the environment .”
Jennings emphasized that the Department ’ s project approval is just one of a number of legal hurdles the tunnels project must clear before construction of the giant 35 mile long tunnels is possible .
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“ Delta Tunnels opponents have to win only one of these to stop the project ,” said Jennings . “ The state and federal agencies have to win them all .”
The County and City of Sacramento , Sacramento Municipal Utility District and cities of Antioch and Stockton were also among the 80 plaintiffs filing the 18 cases .
On August 17 , the Winnemem Wintu Tribe , North Coast Rivers Alliance ( NCRA ), Institute for Fisheries Resources ( IFR ), Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen ’ s Associations ( PCFFA ) and the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association filed suit against the California Department of Water Resources ( DWR ) in Sacramento Superior Court to overturn DWR ’ s approval of the tunnels on July 21 , 2017 .
” The Winnemem Wintu Tribe has lived on the banks of the McCloud River for thousands of years and our culture is centered on protection and careful , sustainable use of its salmon ,” said Caleen Sisk , Chief of the Winnemem Wintu Tribe near Mt . Shasta . “ Our salmon were stolen from us when Shasta Dam was built in 1944 . “
” Since that dark time , we have worked tirelessly to restore this vital salmon run through construction of a fishway around Shasta Dam connecting the Sacramento River to its upper tributaries including the McCloud River . The Twin Tunnels and its companion proposal to raise Shasta Dam by 18 feet would push the remaining salmon runs toward extinction and inundate our ancestral and sacred homeland along the McCloud River ,” Chief Sisk stated .
The Trump and Brown administrations and project proponents claim the tunnels would fulfill the “ coequal goals ” of water supply reliability and ecosystem restoration , but opponents point out that project would create no new water while hastening the extinction of winter-run Chinook salmon , Central Valley steelhead , Delta and longfin smelt , green sturgeon and other imperiled fish species .
The project would also imperil the salmon and steelhead populations on the Trinity and Klamath rivers that have played a central role in the culture , religion and livelihood of the Yurok , Karuk and Hoopa Valley Tribes for thousands of years .
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The “ REAL ” Fall RV Show At Cal Expo Sept . 7-10 Is Underway !
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The tunnels would divert 9,000 cubic feet per second of water from the Sacramento River near Clarksburg and transport it 35 miles via two tunnels 40-feet in diameter for export to San Joaquin Valley agribusiness interests and Southern California . The project would divert approximately 6.5 million acre-feet of water per year , a quantity sufficient to flood the entire state of Rhode Island under nearly 7 feet of water , according to the lawsuit .
The groups pointed out that this “ staggering ” quantity of water – equal to most of the Sacramento River ’ s flow during the summer and fall – would “ exacerbate the Delta ’ s severe ecological decline ,” pushing several imperiled species of salmon and steelhead closer to extinction .
Stephan Volker , attorney for the Tribe and organizations , filed this suit . The suit alleges that DWR ’ s approval of the California WaterFix Project and certification of its Environmental Impact Report violates the California Environmental Quality Act (“ CEQA ”), the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 , and the Public Trust Doctrine .
“ The Public Trust Doctrine protects the Delta ’ s imperiled fish and wildlife from avoidable harm whenever it is feasible to do so ,” according to the lawsuit . “ Contrary to this mandate , the Project proposes unsustainable increases in Delta exports that will needlessly harm public trust resources , and its FEIR dismisses from consideration feasible alternatives and mitigation measures that would protect and restore the Delta ’ s ecological functions . Because the Project sacrifices rather than saves the Delta ’ s fish and wildlife , it violates the Public Trust Doctrine .”
Representatives of the fishing and environmental groups explained their reasons for filing the lawsuit .
“ The Twin Tunnels is a hugely expensive boondoggle that could pound the final nail in the coffin of Northern California ’ s salmon and steelhead fishery ,” stated Noah Oppenheim , Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen ’ s Associations ( PCFFA ). “
Larry Collins , President of the San Francisco Crab Boat Owners Association , stated , “ Our or-
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ganization of small , family-owned fishing boats has been engaged in the sustainable harvest of salmon and other commercial fisheries for over 100 years . By diverting most of the Sacramento River ’ s flow away from the Delta and San Francisco Bay , the Twin Tunnels would deliver a mortal blow to our industry and way of life .”
The Delta Tunnels is also being litigated on the federal level . On June 29 , fishing and environmental groups filed two lawsuits challenging the Trump administration ’ s biological opinions permitting the construction of the controversial Delta Tunnels .
Four groups — the Golden Gate Salmon Association ( GGSA ), the Natural Resources Defense Council ( NRDC ), Defenders of Wildlife , and the Bay Institute — charged the U . S . Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service for violating the Endangered Species ( ESA ), a landmark federal law that projects endangered salmon , steelhead , Delta and longfin smelt and other fish species . The lawsuits said the biological opinions are “ arbitrary , capricious , an abuse of discretion .”
On June 26 , the Trump administration released a no-jeopardy finding in their biological opinions regarding the construction of the Delta Tunnels , claiming that the California WaterFix “ will not jeopardize threatened or endangered species or adversely modify their critical habitat .”
Jennings pointed out that that those permits only allow the construction of the tunnels . In fact , other permits are needed to connect the tunnels to water .
Legal challenges are also expected against issuance of the California Endangered Species Act ( CESA ) permits , the inadequate federal environmental review , additional permits from federal wildlife agencies , wetlands fill permits , water-rights changes before the State Water Resources Control Board , National Environmental Policy Act permits , 404 dredging permits under the Clean Water Act ( CWA ), 401 CWA certification and the flawed Delta Plan created by the Delta Stewardship Council under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act , according to Jennings .
“ Delta fisheries may be collapsing , but one species doing well on the Delta is attorneys ,” Jennings quipped .
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