The Metropolitan Water District board on Wednesday voted to invest another $142 million into the planning for the Delta Conveyance Project. The vote followed an update at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting by Karen Lange, a partner in the lobbying firm of Shaw Yoder Schmeizer & Lange, which represents Solano County’s interests in Sacramento. Among her comments was the political reality that getting the tunnel project built may be a common-ground issue for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s and President-elect Donald Trump’s administrations. “That is seemingly one of the things the federal and state administrations may align … trying to get this tunnel built,” Lange said.

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