The California Water Commission is hard at work coming up with various regulations for SBx7-7 – statewide water conservation required by the 2009 Comprehensive Water Package. At least, DWR staff is hard at work. At its January meeting, the CWC was briefed on Emergency Regulations for Process Water and for Agricultural Water Measurement. Stakeholder meetings...Read More
The CWC received a briefing on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan from Jerry (Dr. Gerald) Meral and Karla Nemeth. On the day of the briefing, Meral was sworn in as the Deputy Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency in charge of the Bay Delta Conservation Planning program. Meral, who retired as the Executive Director...Read More
The most unexpected part of the meeting was the information briefing on the State Water Project Current Issues and Challenges, delivered by Ralph Torres, Deputy Director for the State Water Project. (To view the PowerPoint presentation, go here and click on Attachment 1: Presentation under Agenda Item 10.) Turns out that from an operations and...Read More
This year’s California Water Law Symposium on January 22, titled “The End of Paper Water: Unlimited Demands, Natural Limits & Reliable Supply,” sounded promising. Unfortunately, half of the panels danced around this thorny issue rather than addressing it head-on. The symposium started strong, with a panel that discussed recent “show me the water” laws SB...Read More
Save the Date! Art, Wine, & Edible Delight A Benefit for Restore the Delta When: February 26, 2011 Where: The Old Sugar Mill in Clarksburg, CA Time and Details: Stay posted on upcoming emailsRead More
Meeting attracts southern perspective Speaker says Delta board should spread message about needs to L.A. By Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer STOCKTON – The guy hired to run the sound system got the last word at a meeting Tuesday about the fate of the Delta and water exports to the south. “I’m from Southern...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parilla, Restore the Delta, Barbara@restorethedelta.org, 209 479-2053 Jonas Minton, Planning and Conservation League, jminton@pcl.org (916) 719-4049 Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, Deltakeep@aol.com, 209-464-5067 Dr. Mark Rockwell, Endangered Species Coalition, Federation of Fly Fishers, mrockwell@stopextinction.org, 530 432-0100 Barry Nelson, Natural Resources Defense Council, bnelson@nrdc.org, 415-875-6143 Debbie Davis, Environmental Coalition for...Read More
Since February 2009, the Department of Water Resources has been trying to gain access to selected parcels of Delta land to gather geologic and ecologic data. This is data that could, arguably, be required for an EIR/EIS for the Natural Community Conservation Plan/Habitat Conservation Plan envisioned by the parties to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan....Read More
The 2009 Comprehensive Water Package created new requirements for water users to monitor and report diversions. Beginning in January 2012, users are supposed to keep monthly records of water diversions. Delta water users are a prime target of this requirement, but it’s hard to see how the monitoring and reporting will yield useful information in...Read More
In addition to creating new monitoring and reporting requirements, the 2009 Water Package also created a Delta Watermaster. Watermaster Craig Wilson will be presenting a report on “The Reasonable Use Doctrine and Agricultural Water Use Efficiency” to the Delta Stewardship Council next week. The report’s premise is that inefficient use of water is unreasonable use...Read More
