Dear friend, Real change for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will take more than opposing questionable legislation or an ill-conceived government process like the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. The numerous governing processes that effect the Delta need constant and consistent monitoring from the Delta community.  And, we, Delta residents, recreationists, farmers, and business leaders need to...Read More

By Alex Breitler The Record Staff Writer March 13, 2011, Read Online What do you get when you put a farmer, a fisherman and an environmentalist in the same room? A Restore the Delta meeting. But let’s not oversimplify. Joining them are attorneys, businessmen, boaters, community leaders, developers, students … the list goes on. The...Read More

California will draw many lessons from last week’s massively destructive earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which led to states of emergency in four California coastal counties and even an emergency watch on the Delta’s Staten Island. One lesson is that the State cannot ignore emergency response services in the Delta region in its ongoing efforts...Read More

Among other charges to the DSC in developing the Delta Plan is the charge to “Protect and enhance the unique cultural, recreational, and agricultural values of the California Delta as an evolving place.”  Much will depend on definitions of “evolving,” but as Machado told the DSC, we can’t single out some portions of the Delta...Read More

Gil Cosio didn’t mince words in commenting on the erroneous information that went into the new PPIC report, saying that the PPIC didn’t gather all the data that they should have because of time constraints.  “Garbage in, garbage out,” he said.  “Lund’s data is just not right.” Last week PPIC author Jay Lund wrote a...Read More

Last week Dr. Jerry Meral, Governor Brown’s new deputy secretary for the BDCP, delivered an address in Los Angeles to the California Water Policy Conference (a project of POWER – Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform).  If you’d like to know what Dr. Meral has to say about the BDCP, you can read his...Read More

When the Metropolitan Water District hosted a 20-person lunch in San Francisco celebrating passage of the 2009 water package, the district picked up a tab for $1,861.50, including four bottles of wine at about $55 each.  Jeffrey Kightlinger, MWD’s general manager, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that “it was important to mark the achievement with...Read More

When Governor Schwarzenegger showed the Delta to visiting journalists from outside California, he did it from a helicopter flying over the region. Even then, though, he was closer than most of the academics who are continuing to pad their professional resumes by writing about the Delta for the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).  They...Read More

Thank you to the hundreds of Restore the Delta supporters who attended our Art, Wine, and Edible Delight event this past Saturday.  Michael Prietti and Pat Livingston’s  photography, the Americana music of Mom’s Chili Boys, the fabulous Delta wines from Heringer, Carvalho, and Solomon Wineries, and the great spread from Husick’s Catering, the Monterey Fish...Read More