Diablo Water District files protest against state’s Delta tunnel project change request

Oakley-based Diablo Water District this week filed a protest against the state Department of Water Resources’ request to add two water diversion points to the Delta Conveyance Project — the controversial tunnel project known by several names over the decades.

The protest follows DWR’s Feb. 22 petition to the State Water Resources Control Board to request changes to DWR’s existing water rights. If granted, this change would allow for the addition of two screened intakes 2.3 miles apart along the lower Sacramento River between the unincorporated town of Freeport and Sutter Slough in the northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.