Restore the Delta Responds to Peripheral Tunnels Update Restore the Delta responded to today’s statements by Brown Administration officials at a legislative informational hearing regarding the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), the administration’s peripheral tunnels plan. Delta exports vs. Regional self-sufficiency: “DWR head Mark Cowin has it wrong. If we invest in regional water projects...Read More
In case you missed it… The Los Angeles Times Congressional Democrats demand resignation of Brown appointee By Anthony York, April 25, 2013 SACRAMENTO — Five Congressional Democrats have demanded the resignation of a top official in Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration for comments the official allegedly made about the future of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta....Read More
Has Brown Administration Cancelled Cost-Benefit Analysis of Peripheral Tunnels? No Cost-Benefit Analysis of No-Tunnels Alternative; Hiding the Cost so Taxpayers Won’t Know What They’ll Pay, What They’ll Get in Return 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...Read More
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) have released new “red flag” documents in response to the administrative draft of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). These documents identify issues with BDCP that would make the fisheries agencies unwilling to issue the necessary “take” permits for a habitat...Read More
While speaking with a representative from the California Water Impact Network at a recent meeting with Northern California’s Native American Tribes, Jerry Meral said, “BDCP is not about, and has never been about saving the Delta. The Delta cannot be saved.” Now if Governor Brown and State officials would just stop pretending it’s a habitat...Read More
The salmon that BDCP is supposed to protect are increasingly dependent on Trinity River flows. The Trinity is the only out-of-basin water supply diverted into the Central Valley. It is the largest tributary to the Klamath River, and it flows though the Hoopa Valley Reservation and Humboldt County. In 1964, the Bureau of Reclamation began...Read More
Former Brown Administration Resources Secretary Huey Johnson, president of the Resource Renewal Institute (RRI), has unveiled the first-ever public “California Water Rights Atlas.” This online tool will enable citizens, policymakers, media and others to view thousands of current California water rights claims. Here’s a link to the atlas. Right up front, you learn that California...Read More
Fran Spivy-Weber, who has served on the State Water Resources Control Board since 2007 and was recently reappointed by Governor Brown to another four-year term, was the keynote speaker at the California Municipal Utilities Association (CMUA) conference last week. (CMUA was formed “to protect the interests of California’s consumer-owned utilities before the California Legislature.”) Spivy-Weber...Read More
The California Water Commission has notified us that the Commission will not be considering amendments to Resolutions of Necessity in April, as we previously announced. The items will probably be considered on May 15. Read More
“Mark Borba exemplifies an overdeveloped sense of entitlement…” Why would taxpayers pay tens of billions for Peripheral Tunnels for Mega-Growers of Permanent Crops on Unsuitable Land? Statement from Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta “Mark Borba and his family farm on about 8500 acres in the Westlands Water District with federally subsidized water...Read More
