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'We're not at the table'
State official: Local residents will have say in new Bay-Delta plan
THORNTON — Karla Nemeth made no bones about it when she addressed the Walnut Grove Rotary Club on Monday.
She works for the Schwarzenegger administration, which wants to ship more Delta water to the southern San Joaquin Valley and to Southern California.
"A lot of people really hate this," Nemeth told what she envisioned to be a hostile audience full of residents of the Highway 160 corridor. "I get this."
Rotarian Larry Emery, pastor of Walnut Grove Presbyterian Church, complained about Northern Californians, and especially Delta residents, not having sufficient representation in deciding the Delta's future.
"We don't have any representation except at these kinds of meetings (like Rotary)," Emery said. "When it comes to decision making, we're not at the table."
Nemeth, communications director for the California Natural Resources Agency, the lead agency in developing the Bay-Delta plan, said the plan will involve input from local jurisdictions.
Daniel Wilson, a sixth-generation Delta farmer, said he has trouble understanding how Delta and other regional interests can be represented on committees related to the peripheral canal proposal, considering that the only way to get the canal built will be to get rid of Delta-area interests.
For the full story, please see Tuesday's News-Sentinel.

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