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State’s proposed massive Delta water tunnel would put threatened fish at risk, report says

CALIFORNIA’S WATER AGENCY has released a long-awaited environmental report outlining the details and impacts of a controversial proposal to replumb the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and pump more water south. In the report, issued this past Wednesday, state officials said the tunnel project could harm endangered and threatened species, including the Delta smelt, winter-run chinook salmon and steelhead trout. To […]