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| Written by Earl Hiatt / Community Columnist | |
| Friday, 25 July 2008 | |
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Thinking way outside the box  Earl Hiatt / His Voice We would intersect three railroads, the San Joaquin River and the Hetch Hetchy pipeline, where we would get all the water we need for this project, as we will have another source of water for San Francisco (read on). We might even be able to tear down O’Shaughnessy Dam and eliminate Hetch Hetchy reservoir. We would dredge a ship canal from Stockton (basically up the San Joaquin River) all the way to our corridor and bring the container ships directly to our port, saving on rail and truck freight from Oakland. The dredged dirt would be used to reinforce the levees in the Delta islands and build a dam across the north end of San Pablo Bay (does anyone remember the old Reber Plan?). Not only would this save us billions, but we would capture about 500,000 acre-feet of water each year that is now used in a futile attempt to keep the saltwater intrusion in the Delta to a minimum. This saved water would replace the Hetch Hetchy water mentioned above. A win-win situation. As the container ships go back to China with mostly empty containers, the ships would need ballast. We would pipe the toxic, selenium-rich water from Kesterson Reservoir to our port to use as ballast. As there are huge areas of China that have selenium-deficient soils and as selenium is a minor but needed element, we could sell this water to the Chinese to use in those deficient areas. Another win-win situation. We could also put these empty containers to use another way. To save money and eliminate prison overcrowding, we would contract with China to build prisons, and we would ship to China all the illegal aliens in our jails. When they get out of prison in China and realize not only that they have no way to return to this country but that nobody else speaks Spanish, illegal alien crime would drop drastically. One more win-win situation. Starting at Highway 99 and through this corridor and out the west end to Interstate 5, we would have a wide, multilane highway. Also, eventually a minimum six-lane freeway across the Coast Range into San Jose — not to allow people to go to San Jose to work, but for them to come over here and work at our well-paying jobs. At build-out, we would have a guaranteed 298,322½ jobs (298,307 full-time jobs and 31 part-time jobs). All of the above would be completely financed by private money, and no government grants would be applied for or accepted if offered. All we need is an OK from three county supervisors and a $10 million government grant to get started.
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