Judge: California Delta Land Deal Can Move Forward
A judge says Southern California’s largest water supplier can move ahead with plans to buy sprawling farmland that could be used to help build twin tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
A superior court judge sided Thursday with Metropolitan Water District. It’s buying 20,000 acres in the delta islands east of San Francisco for $175 million. San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties argued that Metropolitan didn’t adequately study how the deal may harm the fragile delta before striking the deal.
