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”...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More