The boards of supervisors of four of the five Delta counties – San Joaquin, Contra Costa, Sacramento, and Solano counties have adopted resolutions opposing BDCP, as has the City of Stockton. In Santa Barbara County, Southcoast water agencies are beginning to realize how bad a peripheral canal would be for their budgets. The Santa Barbara...Read More

Delta folk have their say in film Michael Fitzgerald Record Columnist 10 questions with Bill Jennings Alex Breitler Record Staff Writer Editorial: Delta water deal defers key details, at considerable risk Sacramento Bee Calif., federal officials to reveal water plans Gosia Wozniacka Associated Press SFGateRead More

Media Advisory for Wednesday, July 25, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Farmers, Fishermen, Environmentalists & Consumer Advocates to Launch Campaign Against Peripheral Tunnels: $50 billion scheme lets West Side San Joaquin Valley Growers control more water; Unfair, wasteful, would devastate Bay/Delta environment and economy Restore the Delta,...Read More

Dear Friends, We understand that Governor Brown will be making an announcement on July 25th, 2012 with Secretary Ken Salazar from the Department of the Interior on Brown’s plan to build the peripheral canal/tunnel.    Please join us for our response to his announcement with your homemade signs on the West Steps of the Capitol...Read More

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta EXPERTS: BDCP PROPOSAL “FATALLY FLAWED”: Water Exporters Control Process, Costs Far Outweigh Benefits, Would Exterminate Salmon, Drain Delta for Special Interests SACRAMENTO – A panel of experts today presented the case against building Peripheral Tunnels to...Read More

We expect Governor Brown, in company with federal officials, to announce shortly a plan to get started with the peripheral canal/tunnel in the Delta, or possibly to announce a plan to plan it, whatever exactly “it” is. Apparently, it is something smaller than exporters originally wanted. But it’s still too big. And it will still...Read More

It is always interesting to glimpse the Metropolitan Water District’s (MWD’s) internal communications about Delta processes. The MWD general manager’s Bay-Delta Management Report to a board committee this week manages not to mention that the planned “decision tree” for operation of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) includes a possible reduction of exports to 4.5...Read More

This backup plan to get freshwater to urban areas in the unlikely event of levee failure should relieve the minds of the Latino Water Coalition, which has teamed up with the California Conference of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to write to Interior Secretary Salazar and Natural Resources Secretary John...Read More

The Delta Independent Science Board met this week to discuss its reviews of science programs in the Delta, the Bay Delta Conservation Plan Draft Environmental Impact Report/Statement (BDCP DEIR/EIS), the Delta Science Program, and the Delta ISB workplan. Board members Judy Meyer and John Wiens provided written comments on a report by the Independent Scientific...Read More

When economist David Sunding reported to the BDCP recently, his analysis showed that the tunnel project would provide a net benefit to beneficiaries (water contractors). That isn’t because tunnels would provide more water, better quality water, or reduced seismic risk. It was because tunnels built as part of the BDCP would provide “regulatory assurance” against...Read More