OP-ED: WHY A FEDERAL REVIEW MAKES NO SENSE FOR CADIZ PROJECT
Opponents of the Cadiz project have long called for a new review of the project under federal law. This unsupportable effort recently was in the news again, prompting long-time Southern California water leader Floyd Wicks to write an op-ed for the San Bernardino Sun explaining why such a review is not necessary.
Wicks presents four solid reasons rebutting the call for a federal review. Here’s the first:
First, a new federal review would be a waste of taxpayer dollars. The federal government already approved and certified a larger form of the Cadiz project 12 years ago. A second stringent, multi-year CEQA review process was completed in 2012. The project, which will sustainably deliver 50,000 acre-feet of water a year to roughly 100,000 families, was reviewed and approved by two different California agencies — the County of San Bernardino and the Santa Margarita Water District, Orange County’s second-largest public water agency. Because of the CEQA process, the project includes significant protections for the environment and a rigorous, state-of-the-art groundwater management program that will be enforced by the county.
Read the rest of his op-ed here.
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