The Bay Delta Conservation Plan’s latest report details one of the bad effects on our region of the peripheral tunnels: “22 million cubic yards of tunnel muck.”
The tunnel muck would come from boring two tunnel holes 60 feet in diameter. ”This is not just soil, but conditioning agents (such as bentonite and polymers) that would help make the job easier for massive boring machines,” reports the SacBee’s Stuart Leavenworth.
“‘In total approximately 1,595 acres will be devoted to tunnel muck storage,’ with some of the muck left there permanently,” writes Leavenworth.
There being here. The peripheral tunnels will muck up our region, literally.
