State contractors have readied plans to acquire as many as 300 farms
in the California delta by eminent domain to make room for a pair of
massive, still-unapproved water tunnels proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown,
according to documents obtained by opponents of the tunnels.
Farmers whose parcels were listed and mapped in the 160-page
property-acquisition plan expressed dismay at the advanced planning for
the project, which would build 30-mile-long tunnels in the delta formed
by the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers.
“What really shocks is we’re fighting this and we’re hoping to win,”
said Richard Elliot, who grows cherries, pears and other crops on delta
land farmed by his family since the 1860s. “To find out they’re sitting
in a room figuring out this eminent domain makes it sound like they’re
going to bully us … and take what they want.”
Officials involved in the project defended planning so far ahead regarding the tunnels.
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