FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Restore the Delta Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 10100 Trinity Pkwy, Suite 120 Phone:  209-479-2053 Stockton, CA 95219 Email: Barbara@restorethedelta.org DELTA FARMERS, FISHERMEN AND RESIDENTS DELIVER STRONG MESSAGE TO BAY DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN LEADERS: DELTA FARMS AND FISHERIES,THE HEART OF CALIFORNIA’S ECONOMY,  MUST BE PROTECTED! Stockton, California — Numerous Restore the Delta supporters will be reminding...Read More

The 2009 Comprehensive Water Package called for improved accounting of water diversions. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) got busy and focused on investigating in-Delta water rights only, and not the water rights of any other area. The impetus for this investigation was a biased and targeted report by Stephen Wee, funded and filed...Read More

Last week the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) held a briefing on the second draft of the Delta Plan, even as staff were finishing up the third draft. The DSC invited representatives of local governments to talk about impacts of proposed governance. The DSC heard from all five Delta counties, plus three cities: Sacramento, West Sacramento,...Read More

A couple of years ago, Robyn Suddeth, a graduate student at UCD’s Center for Watershed Science, looked into the “Policy Implications of Permanently Flooded Islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.” The Center for Watershed Sciences is the academic home of Jeffrey Mount and Jay Lund, both of PPIC fame. So it isn’t surprising that Suddeth’s...Read More

AB 550 is Assemblymember Alyson Huber’s bill that would prohibit construction of a peripheral canal unless expressly authorized by the Legislature. It would also require the Legislative Analyst’s Office to complete an economic feasibility analysis before the enactment of a statue authorizing construction of a peripheral canal. That would include the cost of the environmental...Read More