Restore the Delta Criticizes Two Water Plans: BDCP will “Fail to Restore Estuary,” Water Board must Restore Flows to San Joaquin River Testifies at Two Public Hearings 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...Read More
Two Important Meetings for the Delta Need Attendance by Restore the Delta Supporters This Wednesday, March 20, 2013! While all eyes are on the Bay Delta Conservation Play, people cannot forget that the Delta cannot be restored if flows are not restored on the San Joaquin River. The State Water Resource Control Board is receiving...Read More
By Robert Pyke and Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Special to the Mercury News Posted: 03/15/2013 Water exporters misrepresent the risk of earthquakes to generate support for the peripheral tunnels. Powerful interests control California’s water resources and the message about the state’s water. Since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, these powerful interests have stoked fear of flooding...Read More
Experts: Latest BDCP Proposal Still “Fatally Flawed” No Cost-Benefit Analysis of Alternatives; Dewatering the Delta billed as “Conservation Measure” 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...Read More
Last month, DWR director Mark Cowin announced that computer modeling showed an additional 700,000 acre-feet of water could have been sent to exporters since November 1 if the peripheral tunnels had been in place. The argument is that with North Delta diversions, less water would be pumped from the South Delta, so smelt would not...Read More
As he seeks to make the case that the benefits of BDCP will exceed its costs, economist Dr. David Sunding is estimating that restoring 30,000 or more acres of habitat in the Delta, some of it on land currently used for farming, will mean a net gain in jobs for the half-century scope of the...Read More
The preliminary draft chapters of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan will be available for viewing on the BDCP website on the days of release listed below. The release will occur in three stages and each release will be followed by a public meeting. The anticipated schedule is as follows: STAGE 1 March 14 BDCP release:...Read More
Those trying to keep track of all the different processes affecting the Delta face a special challenge this month, when THREE meetings of great interest to the people of the Delta all fall on the same day, March 20. Those listed below have been scheduled for months; the third – the BDCP public meeting –...Read More
Peripheral Tunnels will not Eliminate Massive Fish Kills at Export Facilities More than 130 million fish have been killed since 2000; Fish losses could even increase with added North Delta diversion SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Sportfishing Alliance (CSPA) and Restore the Delta (RTD) today released a CSPA white paper concluding that millions of fish...Read More
Sausalito, CA – Over Troubled Waters (OTW), a documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, was screened Tuesday night in Sausalito as an official selection of the Tiburon International Film Festival (http://www.tiburonfilmfestival.com). The Festival seeks to provide a greater understanding of the world and its many cultures through the artistic medium of film. Over Troubled Waters is...Read More
