Study: Gov. Brown’s Delta Tunnels Plan Would Create Nearly $5 Billion in Net Benefit
From the Contra Costa Times:
“A new economic study estimates that Gov. Jerry Brown’s multi-billion-dollar plan to build two massive tunnels to move water from Northern California down south would create a net benefit for Californians of roughly $5 billion.
“While critics sharply disputed the legitimacy of the cost-benefit analysis of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan efforts, the draft released Monday concludes that the plan’s combined impacts would spur $83.5 billion in new economic activity in the state, and create 177,000 construction and Delta habitat restoration-related jobs over the project’s 50-year life.”
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