Dear Friends, Tuesday morning at the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Hearing, this committee will decide if AB 2421 (Berryhill), a costs benefit analysis for the peripheral canal, will move forward throughout the legislative process. The water export users listed below say that a cost benefit analysis of the proposed project would actually interfere with...Read More

Excerpts from Switchboard:  Natural Resources Defense Council Staff Blog Tina Swanson’s Blog California’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan Has No Clothes  Posted April 17, 2012 “The result of this five-year, $140 million effort is a [BDCP] draft plan that, according to its own ‘effects analysis,’ would make the existing situation worse by further degrading estuarine habitat, harming...Read More

Delta Levee Standards Conference Scholarships Available! The Delta Protection Commission and the Water Education Foundation are sponsoring a Delta Levee Standards Conference on May 2. The agenda has pairs of experts speaking on Delta levee standards and on the relationship of Delta levees to conveyance, habitat, and public safety. Each pair of speakers will be...Read More

Governor Jerry Brown is proposing to make the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) part of the Resources Agency, where the Department of Water Resources is pushing the peripheral canal that the DSC is supposed to have the power to veto. The 2009 legislation that created the Stewardship Council made it an independent body reporting to the...Read More

An important purpose of this newsletter is to provide an ongoing narrative of the various processes that affect the Delta – from a Delta perspective. More often than not, the Delta’s story is represented by officials from outside the Delta who have easy access to media and large public relations budgets, and who support the...Read More

Dear friends, Two important pieces of legislation are currently making their way through the legislature. AB 2421 (Berryhill) calls for the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct a cost benefit analysis prior to the construction of the peripheral canal. AB 1813 (Buchannan) calls for the establishment of flow criteria new flow criteria established by the State...Read More

Restore the Delta BBQ Fundraiser Pig Roast & Fixin’s Saturday, May 19, 2012   Social Hour 4:00 p.m. Dinner 5:00 p.m. Presentations 6:00 p.m. Roberts Union Farm Center 4925 West Howard Road, Stockton All proceeds to benefit Restore the Delta $100 per person Silent and Live Auction RSVP NOW! Click Here for the mail-in form...Read More

Restore the Delta has been thinking a great deal lately about who receives water exported from the Delta and how these recipients use this exported water. The more we learn about how exported water is being used by the corporate agribusiness growers on the west side and southern San Joaquin Valley, the more convinced we...Read More

The Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) met March 29-30. During Executive Director Joe Grindstaff’s report, there was a discussion of the continuing review of comments and responses to the Delta Pan and its EIR. Grindstaff opined that the prospective changes in the 6th Draft of the Delta Plan will necessitate recirculation of the EIR. (So we...Read More

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has released its final report on the Delta. This is the study initiated over two years ago at Senator Feinstein’s request, and at the urging of people like Stewart Resnick. The hope was that “objective” scientists from somewhere else would come up with answers more to the liking of...Read More