Documents drafted by the Bay Delta Conservation Plan committee call for a canal that could receive up to 15,000 cubic feet per second from five locations -- enough to fill an Olympic-sized pool in six seconds. The canal plan voters defeated in the 1980s would have carried 21,000 cubic feet per second.
Opponents fear diverting water would turn the freshwater estuary into a swamp.
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