Commentary: The Delta, the Plumbing and Rectifying the Problem
From The Sacramento Bee, in a commentary by Dennis McEwan:
“‘Denny, you and your environmentalist buddies better vote for this thing, ’cause it’s the best deal you’re ever going to get.’
“Those words were spoken by my father in 1982, extolling me to vote ‘yes’ on Proposition 9, the referendum on the peripheral canal. He was a 30-plus-year, veteran engineer with the California Department of Water Resources, and I was a 20-something idealistic college student majoring in conservation biology. As such, we couldn’t have been further apart on water issues in this state.”
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