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Eminent Domain and the BDCP

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California’s water world is abuzz with the revelation that the BDCP involves acquisition of land parcels for the project’s diversion facilities and 30-mile twin tunnels, either by acquisition or by Eminent Domain.   As Rick Blaine (aka Humphrey Bogart) stated in Casablanca, “I’m shocked.  Shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.” Continue reading