Dear friends, We will be at two upcoming meetings this week regarding the Delta Tunnels. If you can make it, please join us in Contra Costa County and/or Santa Clara Valley to voice your opposition to the tunnels. Also, don't miss a great article in the LA Times below! What: CCWD Public Board Meeting When: Wednesday, April...Read More
For Immediate Release: Monday, April 4, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, Barbara@restorethedelta.org DELTA TUNNELS Ratepayers Warned to “Watch Your Wallets” Joint Water District Meeting on Thursday, April 7, 2016 Stockton, CA – Today, Restore the Delta is sounding the alarm to all water ratepayers throughout California to be on guard for water...Read More
Here are two upcoming events in the following weeks that both aim to uplift our cause. We hope you to see you at both or one of these events! Saturday, April 23, 2016: Stockton Ports Game and Delta Awareness Night We will be releasing our first coloring book at the Stockton Ports game vs Inland...Read More
Dear Friends of Restore the Delta, The Contra Costa Water District Board of Directors will soon be reviewing the settlement agreement that they recently signed with the Delta Tunnels plan effort. The settlement drops CCWD’s protest against the tunnels plan in exchange for a separate pipeline to deliver drinking water to its customers. We...Read More
For Immediate Release: 3/29/2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the Delta 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org RE: DWR/Contra Costa Water District Agreement & California Delta Tunnels Today, the Contra Costa Water District announced a withdrawal of their protest petition with the State Water Resources Control Board regarding the “Change of Diversion Petition” filed by the lead...Read More
BREAKING NEWS Monday, March 28, 2016 5:00pm (Update added below: March 29, 2016) Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Jonas Minton, Planning and Conservation League, 916-822-5634 Osha Meserve, Attorney, Local Agencies of the North Delta, 916-455-7300 Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, 209-464-5067 Sacramento – Today petitioners for a “Change in the Point...Read More
Dear friends, The Delta Tunnels project is on “thin ice."The plan is in major need of continued financial support from smaller urban agencies such as Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) and Zone 7 Water Agency in Alameda County. In their new petition alert, Californians for Water Security, the Stewart Resnick Big Ag front group, is...Read More
Contact: Bay Area Rights of Nature Alliance Shannon Biggs, Movement Rights (415) 841-2998 shannon@movementrights.org Linda Sheehan, Earth Law Center (510) 219-7730 lsheehan@earthlaw.org Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta (209) 479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 21,2016 RSVP/Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/142378382819847/ BAY-DELTA TRIBUNAL PUTS STATE & NATIONAL LEGAL SYSTEM ON TRIAL California’s Proposed Delta Tunnels Case to...Read More
Dear friends, In addition to this press release, don’t miss our media alert from Maven’s Notebook and our $10 Tuesday event below! Thank you for your support. For Immediate Release: 3/22/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org DELTA TUNNELS Water Contractor Launches Legal Attack on State Water Board Officers Restore the Delta Response Stockton, CA –...Read More
In case you missed it… The Modesto Bee Our View: Tunnels don’t add up, now we know why BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD March 20, 2016 Read at The Modesto Bee. For years now, Gov. Jerry Brown has been telling us that he will save the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – the greatest fresh-water estuary on this side...Read More
