The Stockton City Council voted to formally oppose the state of California’s Delta Conveyance Project, known as the Delta Tunnel, due to concerns about water quality and environmental impacts. The city resolution states that the project would degrade water quality for the Stockton region, threaten fish and wildlife, increase harmful algae blooms, and increase salinity intrusion in the Delta. … However, the state says the project is needed to ensure the safety of drinking water for millions of people.

Other Delta tunnel news:

• Agri-Pulse: California’s water projects stumble as climate pressures mount
• Daily Republic (Fairfield, Calif.): CSAC exec says states trying to grab land-use powers from counties​
• California Globe: Opinion: The cost and the upside of the ‘big gulp’