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