Panel criticizes river delta plan
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 00:30
in Earth & Climate
Agencies seeking to build a water tunnel beneath the crucial Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta have unclear goals and have not considered the effect on endangered fish species, a report says.A proposal to build a large water tunnel under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta is incomplete, confused and plagued by a number of scientific gaps despite years of study, according to a National Research Council report.