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
Over Troubled Waters is the centerpiece of a public education effort to stop the building of peripheral tunnels. In this visually rich documentary, Ed Begley Jr. narrates the story of how the people of the Delta are fighting to protect the region they love and to encourage saner, sustainable water policies for all the people...Read More
Peripheral Tunnels do not Eliminate Earthquake Threats to Water Supply; Fattening the Levees is a More Effective Solution 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, mainly to benefit mega-growers on the west...Read More
In case you missed it… Global water expert debunks “Jobs” myth from tunnels: From the blog Aquanomics by water economist David Zetland, former UC Berkeley professor, now in Netherlands 27 FEBRUARY 2013 Jobs, Tunnels and the Delta RM sent me this press release, which says that peripheral tunnels would create 136,000 jobs and “net 15,000”...Read More
In case you missed it… The Press-Enterprise OPINION: Peripheral tunnel plan wouldn’t save the delta By Barbara Barrigan-Parrillla Published February 28, 2013 In response to The Press-Enterprise editorial “Shore up state’s imperiled water supply” (Our Views, Feb. 17): Implementation of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan would not help augment a tightening water supply. The entire...Read More
Bond Funds Shouldn’t Mitigate Peripheral Tunnels Damage, Would Take Money from Schools, Public Safety; Unspent Bond Funds should be used for Levee Improvement, State spending should promote regional water self-sufficiency SACRAMENTO, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), a coalition opposed to the Brown Administration’s Peripheral Tunnels, today announced that it opposes using state bond funds...Read More
Faced with a growing number of reasonable alternatives to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (see below), and faced with growing evidence that recent doomsday scenarios about the vulnerability of Delta levees have been exaggerated, the Department of Water Resources and Jerry Meral have come up with a new reason to write off the Delta as...Read More
There are now four proposals besides Peripheral Tunnels for achieving the coequal goals of ecosystem restoration and water supply reliability while protecting the Delta itself: Restore the Delta proposes its “There’s a Better Solution” plan for managing the Delta. The Environmental Water Caucus’s plan posits a reduction in exports and increased outflows, and also calls...Read More
This week the Resources Agency announced that between Nov. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013, curtailments in pumping to protect endangered fish reduced deliveries from the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project to water districts in the Central Valley, Southern California, and San Francisco Bay Area by about 700,000 acre-feet. The Agency put...Read More
