The struggle by tribes, environmental organizations, fishing groups and California residents to stop construction of the controversial Delta Conveyance Project, or Delta Tunnel, just heated up with the submission of a formal statement to the State Water Resources Control Board that highlights the “fundamental flaws” in the process.
The Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition, or DTEC, represented by the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School – along with the California Indian Environmental Alliance, San Francisco Baykeeper and Golden State Salmon Association – put forward the statement that claims to expose the flaws of the hearings concerning petitions submitted by the Department of Water Resources in February 2024. DWR had asked the State Water Board to modify water rights permits issued back in 1972, and change them in a way that would allow DWR to use them now to construct and operate the Delta Tunnel.
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