Restore the Delta members Rogene Reyolds and Doug Hemly were featured on PBS Newshour, along with Congressman Garamendi, and Dr. Jeff Michael. Go to minute 36 to learn about what is happening to this region.
“Water is gold; wherever you take it you prosper. People with more money than some of us out here are interested in transferring the water away from us and the state policy seems to be favoring them over our region,” said Rogene Reyolds.
Later she states
“Follow the money, that is all I can really say about it. They are powerful, money interest, it’s a transfer of wealth, pure and simple and the excuse of revitalizing the delta is just an excuse.
“The proposed volume they are proposing they want us to take theorgically would suck us dry and you would be able to walk across it… theirs 14,000 cubic feet per second and they want to put in pumps that will suck out 15,000 cubic feet per second,” said Doug Hemly. “I think if they don’t want to suck it dry then why build it so they could suck it dry.”
So you haven’t produced a financial plan that makes sense that passes any kind of scrutiny that has any detail in it?” said Jeff Michael, an economist at the University of the Pacific. “I found that the project had an average $2.50 in cost for every $1 in economic benefit to the state of California. It’s a terrible investment and has to be one of the worst investments ever considered for a major infrastructure project in the state.
