Below are some articles of interest from Restore the Delta Salazar & Jerry Brown issue statement today in further response to outcry over the MOA Click here to read online. CV Business Times immediately gets a less-than-positive comment on the statement from Jerry McNerney Click here to read online. just passed Fed budget bill has...Read More
We are indebted for today’s opening quote to the website for The Dolphin Group. This is not an organization committed to looking out for the welfare of dolphins or other aquatic creatures. It is a 30+ year-old political consulting firm with offices in Los Angeles and Sacramento. The Dolphin Group specializes “in helping clients identify...Read More
Former federal judge Oliver Wanger, who just retired a couple of months ago, lost no time in taking on Westlands Water District as a client. He was all set to defend Westlands in a lawsuit filed by several Northern California groups. But this week, he changed his mind. As a judge, he had presided over...Read More
The BDCP folks had a lot of explaining to do last week when the following premature ad for a construction manager for new conveyance was posted by Jacobs Engineering: Manage the Jacobs Construction Management (CM) Team for the $10.5 Billion Delta Habitat Conservation and Conveyance Program (DHCCP). The DHCCP will be one of the world’s...Read More
A few notes on Delta Stewardship Council chair Phil Isenberg’s November 28 meeting with people in the North Delta, thanks to Nicky Suard of Snug Harbor Resorts. Isenberg said, “You can’t expect consistency in water flow calculations.” But Suard points out that the State Water Resources Control Board’s 2008 Strategic Plan said that “inappropriate inconsistency...Read More
Delta landowners have won a victory in the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB’s) systematic challenge to the reparian/pre-1914 water rights in the Delta. The SWRCB had issued several Cease and Desist Orders (CDOs) challenging the existence of riparian and/or pre-1914 water rights of property owners on several Delta islands. As a result of hearings...Read More
The North Delta’s Peter Stone is the only Delta resident currently participating in the BDCP Public Finance Work Group. He reports that the vast majority of the participants are water contractors, NGOs and various governmental agencies. Stone is participating in order to influence how BDCP is financed should it actually be approved. Participants in the...Read More
The California Water Commission had scheduled two days last week to deal with resolutions of necessity for eminent domain so that the Department of Water Resources (DWR) can go forward with geotechnical investigations in the Delta. But the Water Commission dispensed with matters in one day, having debated the most important issues at their September...Read More
Also on November 16, the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) folks had a public meeting, and Stockton attorney George Hartmann, who represents Delta reclamation districts, told Resources Secretary Jerry Meral that it was hard to see how converting 133,000 acres of prime Delta farmland to habitat was going to be good for the people of...Read More
