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Governor Jerry Brown is facing huge opposition from a member of his own political party. Assembly member Susan Talamantes Eggman (D-Stockton) is proposing legislation that would require voter approval on Governor Brown’s controversial Twin Tunnels project that would divert water from the Delta to other parts of the Central Valley.
The bill would require voters to approve any water infrastructure projects that would divert water from the Sacramento River to the Delta.
“An enormous amount of time and energy has been wasted rebranding and repackaging the same old Peripheral Canal plan that voters rejected decades ago,” Eggman said. “It’s tragic that despite our ongoing drought, this flawed plan is being forced on us without any true debate even though it will not add one drop of water to California’s supply, but it will raise the water rates and potentially property taxes of millions of Californians.”
Eggman has received bipartisan support from Senator Lois Wolk (D-Davis) and Assembly members Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento), Catharine Baker (R-Dublin), Susan Bonilla (D-Concord), Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) and Jim Frazier (D-Oakley).
