Restore the Delta has received back from Hollywood its master copy of Over Troubled Waters and is preparing to announce its premiere screening. Details will be out shortly. Film synopsis: The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas, is a national treasure being squandered by greed. In this visually...Read More
Lots of Californians will be hurt by cuts in this year’s State Budget, but lawmakers found a little something for struggling water contractors. The Budget includes “75 new positions to perform preliminary engineering and design work for the Delta Habitat Conservation and Conveyance Program.” In other words, taxpayers, not beneficiaries (water contractors), are paying the...Read More
DWR Director Mark Cowin has made it clear to Delta reclamation district engineers that the state’s priority for levees is to save the state money rather than to protect the people, infrastructure, and economic activities of the Delta. The flood management investment framework being promoted by DWR endorses a baseline levee requirement using “minimum geometry...Read More
Twelve California Congressional representatives have signed a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Acting Department of Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank asking them not to rush into supporting BDCP Plus – the build-it-first-and-ask-questions-later conveyance plan that Governor Brown and Secretary Salazar are expected to announce in July. Says the letter, “We do not believe it...Read More
The Delta Stewardship Council is meeting to try to come up with policies and recommendations relative to the Delta Plan that will allow the process to move forward with the environmental review. Some council members and many stakeholders think the Delta Plan isn’t there yet, both in small, wordsmithing ways and in big, policy ways....Read More
The L.A. Times reports that in an effort to help boost Governor Brown’s tax initiative, Democratic legislators are preparing to remove the $11.14 billion water bond from the November ballot. The water bond was part of the 2009 Delta Reform legislation, and it was originally going to be on the 2010 ballot. Supporters of the bond keep...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, June 28 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta RESTORE THE DELTA NAMED 2012 FULL CIRCLE FUND GRANTEE, WILL PARTNER WITH NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC & AMERICA’S CUP STOCKTON, CA – Restore the Delta announced today that it has been selected, along with eight other non-profits,...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Thirty-Six Organizations Call for “Policy before Plumbing” Ask U.S. Government to Answer 7 Questions on Peripheral Canal/Tunnel Sacramento, CA – Thirty-six California environmental, fishing and consumer advocacy groups, including the Sierra Club, Environmental Water...Read More
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed Newton: Water ethics and a peripheral canal Southern California needs the water, and Northern California has it. But let’s not sacrifice the delta. By: Jim Newton June 25, 2012 Click here to read online. Jeff Hart is a scientist who knows the history of the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta better...Read More
On June 20, Resources Agency staff and consultants held one of their periodic meetings to brief the public on the progress of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). We still don’t know exactly what Governor Brown and Interior Secretary Salazar will be announcing next month in the way of conveyance in the Delta, except that...Read More
