Last week (August 6) DWR began overwater drilling in the Delta “to collect data for proposed water conveyance alternatives associated with BDCP.” Work continues through October. DWR needs these geotechnical investigations to support the environmental documents for the BDCP. Does this mean we shouldn’t expect to see the BDCP EIR before October? Click here for...Read More
Now here’s a silly bit of reasoning from the south-of-Delta water users who never tire of looking for scapegoats to blame when they don’t get all the water they want: Southern resident Peuget Sound orcas – also known as killer whales – eat Chinook salmon. Chinook salmon runs in the Delta have severely declined. It...Read More
Phil Isenberg, Chair of the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC), reacted to last week’s announcement by Governor Brown and Secretary Salazar with more support than we’d like to see from the chair of a body that will have authority to incorporate the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) into the Delta Plan for the California Delta. (Read...Read More
During the past five years, while Californians have been subjected to increasingly panicked predictions about an earthquake causing levee failures in the California Delta, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) has been doing a Corrective Action Study to figure out how to prevent an earthquake-caused dam failure that “could inundate hundreds of square miles...Read More
In our last newsletter, we reported that the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA), which wholesales State Water Project Water to Santa Barbara County, had voted not to go forward with the BDCP and the peripheral canal. Carolee Krieger, President of California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), reports that although four Southcoast water agencies voted not to...Read More
Sacramento, CA – Restore the Delta, local, state and federal elected officials, the Sierra Club, Food & Water Watch, the Planning and Conservation League, the Environmental Water Caucus, Friend of the River, the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations and a dozen other groups launched their campaign against the “Peripheral Tunnels” with a rally at...Read More
Media Advisory for Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta “Over Troubled Waters”: Sustainable Water Advocates, Congressman George Miller To Premiere Film On Water Wars Over Troubled Waters, a documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, will premiere on August 8th at the Crest Theater in Sacramento. U.S....Read More
Restore the Delta’s Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla was a featured guest on yesterday’s Forum – a KQED radio program. Click here to listen to the show.Read More
As if driven from the Capitol by the prospect of vocal opposition, Governor Brown announced the latest versionof the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) at 10:30 on July 25 in a small room in the Resources Agency building, this monument to mid-20th century bureaucracy. Joining Brown for the press briefing were Interior Secretary Ken Salazar...Read More
In contrast to the government’s closeted announcement, close to 300 opponents of Delta plumbing rallied at noon on the West Steps of the Capitol. Among those who spoke at the combined rally/press conference was Congressman John Garamendi, who flew to Sacramento from Washington, D.C. for the event. The Congressman spotlighted major gaps that the BDCP...Read More
