For Immediate Release: March 8, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Stockton, CA – At a closed session board meeting this morning, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California authorized the purchase of four islands in the San Francisco Bay-Delta for an undisclosed sum. The deal is highly controversial in Northern California as it would...Read More
In Case You Missed It – 3/7/2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org The Delta Tunnels "Tracking" Website Misleads Public About Water Yields Valley Economy – March 3, 2016 Dr. Jeffrey Michael, Director of the Center for Business and Policy Research and Associate Professor, Eberhardt School of Business, University of the Pacific In January, the...Read More
Dear friends, Join us at two upcoming meetings on the Delta Tunnels (CA WaterFix) in the Bay Area this Friday and in the Tri-Valley next Wednesday. This Friday, 3/11, in San Francisco: What: Hearing to examine impacts of the proposed tunnels on the San Francisco Bay Hosted by: State Senator Lois Wolk, State Senator Mark Leno, Supervisor Scott Wiener...Read More
For Immediate Release: 3/3/2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org As California Water Infrastructure Crumbles, Water Districts Consider Wasting $1.2 Billion on the Delta Tunnels Advocates Say “Fix LA and Santa Clara First!” Stockton, CA – Opponents of the Delta Tunnels today questioned the wisdom of state water districts investing another $1.2 billion in the plan...Read More
Dear friends, Board members at Santa Clara Valley Water District are contemplating spending $500,000,000 to $1.2 billion on the NOT needed Delta tunnels, but they cannot maintain their own infrastructure for water export deliveries. See this news story by Mercury News published yesterday, "Failure of key water pipeline into Silicon Valley may have exposed wider problems." How...Read More
Dear Friends of Restore the Delta, The Zone 7 Water Agency is scheduled to vote to support the Delta tunnels project at a public meeting on March 16, 2016. The vote centers around continued financial support. They need to hear from area residents like you on your opposition to the Delta tunnels. Zone 7 sells treated...Read More
Dear friends, Californians for Water Security, the Stewart Resnick Big Ag front group, is asking Californians to send emails in support of the Delta Tunnels/CA Water Fix to Santa Clara Valley Water District’s Board. Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) needs to hear from ratepayers like you that will actually pay the costs, NOT a...Read More
When asked about alternatives to the Delta Tunnels in December 2015, Governor Jerry Brown told the Sacramento Bee, “I don’t think there is a Plan B.” He’s wrong, there are many reliable and less environmentally damaging alternatives to the Delta Tunnels that will protect the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary and build regional water sustainability. Creating...Read More
Our media release for today and, in case you missed it, two great op-eds in the Contra Costa Times and the Sacramento Bee, one by Contra Costa County Supervisor Mary N. Piepho and the other by Raul Grijalva calling out latino front groups by Westlands Water District. For Immediate Release: Feb 9, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta...Read More
For Immediate Release: 2/8/2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director, Restore the Delta 209-479-2053 Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, 209-938-9053 Pro-Delta Tunnels Group Bars Journalist from Media Teleconference Veteran fisheries reporter Dan Bacher asked to media event, then denied access Sacramento – Daniel Bacher, a veteran Northern California journalist specializing in fisheries, received a media...Read More
