ACTION ALERT UPDATE It's Time to Oppose the Delta Tunnels at the Delta Stewardship Council!
ACTION ALERT UPDATE: It's Time to Oppose the Delta Tunnels at the Delta Stewardship Council!
The California Department of Water Resources has filed with the Delta Stewardship Council a “consistency determination” for California Water Fix. This filing is how DWR will get approval from the Delta Stewardship Council that the Delta tunnels project is consistent with the Council’s Delta Plan. This process checks off a box to move forward with construction of the tunnels. It’s time to tell the DSC, the project needs to be stopped once and or all.
Congratulations to attorneys Osha Meserve and Tom Keeling whose filings to the Delta Stewardship Council led to Councilmember Maria Mehranian re-recusing herself from voting on the WaterFix Certification of Consistency “in order to avoid any appearance of bias.” Councilmember Mehranian is a partner at the Cordoba Corporation which sought and lost a contract to work on WaterFix. She also wrote a blog on WaterFix for publication just 60 days prior to being appointed to the Delta Stewardship Council by Governor Brown. Ms. Mehranian attempted to reverse her recusal after Cordoba did not win the WaterFix contract. We still believe that these conflicts should disqualify Ms. Mehranian completely from membership on the Council, but for now thanks to the work of Ms. Meserve and Mr. Keeling, she has once again recused herself from voting on the Consistency Determination.
But we still have work to do: We keep hearing from members who want to send letters to the Delta Stewardship Council instead of attending the hearing. We empathize and understand why. Please try to attend on 10/26/18.
This is why your public comment is important! This may be one of the last events in which you can voice to the government your opposition to the Delta tunnels project.
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ACTION ALERT UPDATE: It's Time to Oppose the Delta Tunnels at the Delta Stewardship Council!