During October, Ron Baldwin, the recently-retired director of emergency services for San Joaquin County, has been holding meetings around the Delta region to get feedback on a new project he is facilitating for coordinating flood response in the Delta. The project is the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Regional Flood Response Project. Its purpose is to improve...Read More
This past week, Restore the Delta learned that Laura King Moon, Assistant General Manager of the State Water Contractors, is on loan to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to assist with communications regarding the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). Said Natural Resources Secretary John Laird in a letter to Jared Huffman, Chair of the...Read More
The Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on the BDCP signed in August by State and federal water contractors, including the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Department of Water Resources, is coming in for serious scrutiny. Regional congressional representatives Jerry McNerney, George Miller, Mike Thompson, Doris Matsui and John Garamendi told U.S. Interior...Read More
Despite the best efforts of Phil Isenberg, chair of the Delta Stewardship Council, the Delta Plan will not be completed by the January 2012 deadline called for in the 2009 Delta Reform Act. The draft EIR is now scheduled to come out on November 4, so the Delta Plan itself won’t be adopted until late...Read More
After last month’s Delta Protection Commission (DPC) meeting ran into the wee hours of the morning, commissioners were forced to table the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) and their differences in opinion on how the final product should be worded. For the past month, internal discussion between commission members and their staff had resolved all but...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Phone: (209) 479-2053 Restore the Delta 10100 Trinity Pkwy, Suite 120 Stockton, CA 95219 Email: Barbara@restorethedelta.org Department of Water Resources Hires State Water Contractor Rep to Help Oversee Delta Planning Laura King Moon, Assistant General Manager of the State Water Contractors, has been tapped by the California Department of Water...Read More
On Wednesday morning, October 19, the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee held a joint oversight hearing on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. This was one of the periodic hearings in which legislators are reminded of how little influence they have over the Delta planning processes going forward. A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed recently...Read More
The legislators heard from a panel including both Roger Patterson of the Metropolitan Water Agency (MWD) and Dennis Cushman of the San Diego Water Authority, which is MWD’s largest member agency, buying about a quarter of everything MWD sells. Cushman raised an issue that we haven’t heard much about yet: What is the real demand...Read More
Staff from the Department of Water Resources conduct regular research assignments and write reports to assist officials with making water management decisions. At other times, these assignments are given to contractors to create the information that the Department of Water Resources needs to facilitate the planning of projects. Restore the Delta finds two such reports...Read More
