LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Re: Marysville

I love what is happening in Marysville due to efforts by our Mayor, Chris Branscum, City Manager, Jim Schaad, and our Community Development Director, Dan Flores! Blight is being tackled effectively for the first time in years. The B Street property is finally happening! With trees! Marysville has not always been a friend to trees. (Examples of this are the trees that were cut down at the court house several years ago. And even now, Bidwell Auction just cut down every tree on their newly acquired property next to the ballpark). There are many and diverse efforts being addressed at Ellis Lake. The new fence around the ballpark is sturdy and beautiful. Finally, our city is being managed by people who know how to effect positive change! And I look forward to the many more changes that are in the works by this talented team.

Re: Delta tunnel project

The Tuesday headline “Water

Mary Berg Marysville infrastructure project pits water agencies against environmentalists” is misleading, especially in Sutter County. Anyone invested in northern California should realize that this infrastructure when constructed will be used to take wealth from northern California and deliver it to southern California. Any move of water from northern California to southern California enriches southern California at northern California’s cost. Southern California can continue to grow and develop, and northern California won’t have the water necessary to do the same. Anyone who has dealt with the state, and particularly with Department of Water Resources, knows they don’t keep their promises. Remember the incomplete auxiliary spillway that required us to evacuate the county in 2017? Once they had Oroville dam in place, they could not see any need to complete the auxiliary spillway. Once they have the infrastructure in place to move water, they will be unable to see any good reason not to use it, taking water from the north and delivering it to the south, preventing development in the north.

Francis Coats Yuba City