Tuesday Top of the Scroll: San Jose water agency to vote on whether to help fund Gov. Gavin Newsom’s $20 billion Delta tunnel project
Silicon Valley’s largest water agency will vote Tuesday on whether to support Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to spend $20 billion to build a massive, 45-mile long tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to make it easier to move water from Northern California to Southern California. The board of the Santa Clara Valley Water District, a government agency based in San Jose, will consider contributing $9.7 million toward planning and geotechnical studies for the project, which it says could improve its water supply reliability — but which is also one of California’s most long-running and controversial water proposals. Newsom’s idea is to build a 36-foot diameter concrete tunnel to take water from the Sacramento River about 15 miles south of Sacramento, near the town of Courtland, and move it roughly 150 feet deep, for 45 miles under the marshes and sloughs of the Delta to the massive State Water Project pumps near Tracy, reducing reliance on them.
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