Month

March 2013
In case you missed today’s KQED Forum segment… Controversy Over Newest Delta Plan Proposal CLICK HERE TO LISTEN. This week, Governor Jerry Brown’s office released further details of its plan to build twin tunnels to pump water from Northern California to cities and farms in other parts of the state. Brown says the $23 billion...
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (CLICK HERE FOR PDF)  Youth in San Francisco and the Delta to Explore Water Conservation Issues During National Geographic Photo Camp SAN FRANCISCO (March 29, 2013)-From April 4 to 7, a group of 20 students from San Francisco and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta region of California will use photography to document their...
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Latest BDCP Effects Analysis Nothing More than a Rationale for a Conveyance Peripheral Tunnel Incompatible with Restoring Delta SACRAMENTO, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), a coalition opposed to the Brown Administration’s rush to construct massive Peripheral Tunnels to take millions of acre-feet of water from the Delta, today said the revised BDCP proposal for...
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April 4th will be a key meeting in the series of BDCP meetings this year.  Please join us for a pre-meeting warm up at 11:30 p.m. outside the meeting site.  Be prepared with questions regarding the project – pack your lunch – and be prepared to make your presence known. April 4, 2013 – A...
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California voters, lawmakers have no say in OK of major river diversion plan mweiser@sacbee.com PUBLISHED SUNDAY, MAR. 24, 2013 It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan proposes to restore one of every five acres in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, breaching levees on...
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Another View: Delta tunnel project truly can drain north state Special to The Bee By Jane Wagner-Tyack  PUBLISHED SUNDAY, MAR. 24, 2013  Click here to read online.  In Stuart Leavenworth’s “Scope and impact of Delta twin tunnels is starting to hit home” (Forum, March 17), we were happy to see his growing concern regarding the...
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In a marathon day of meetings on March 20, Delta advocates were all over Sacramento trying to keep up with the State’s different planning processes affecting the Delta region. While the State Water Resources Control Board was meeting a few blocks away (see below), the California Water Commission (CWC) spent Wednesday morning having a “workshop”...
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Wednesday afternoon, as the Water Board hearing continued, Jerry Meral and consultants held a public meeting to take questions on the first four chapters of the administrative draft of the BDCP, released just a week ago. Dozens of Delta residents showed up for this meeting, and they were mostly well-prepared with thoughtful questions. But it’s...
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At the State Water Resources Control hearing on San Joaquin River Flows as part of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary (Bay-Delta) Program, Phase I, John Rubin, Senior Council for the San Luis Delta-Mendota Water Authority, made a presentation to the State Water Resources Control Board that was an all out attack on the...
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In addition to failing to rectify years of water quality violations in the San Joaquin River and South Delta, the proposed plan also fails to increase flows sufficiently to restore salmon and steelhead in the San Joaquin River. It fails to balance the public trust. It fails to provide sufficient water quality and water quantity...
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