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With so many issues to deal with right here at home, including the accelerating pace of residential and commercial development, the potential for collapse of levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta 300 miles to the north would seem like something that could be shoved onto the back burner.Think again. The delta, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and their tributaries come together before flowing to the ocean by way of San Francisco Bay, is a vital source of water for the Tehachapi area as well as a large part of Central and Southern California. The California Aqueduct of the State Water Project, through which the Tehachapi area receives its necessary supply of supplemental water, has its intake in the delta. Any serious collapse of the levees that channel water through the delta could have devastating and long-lasting effects here in our own community. State and local water officials are keeping their fingers crossed that the delta levees, nearly all of them more than a...
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