Restore the Delta: news of interest: 3/11/2016 Dear friends, Don’t forget to sign our petition telling Metropolitan Water District of SoCal (Met) to reconsider their Delta islands purchase — we need as many signatures as we can get by April 20th. Met will be holding a special meeting on the Delta islands purchase in April, they have put a down payment on the islands...Read More
In case you missed it… A raid on Delta Islands San Francisco Chronicle: Read article at SF Chronicle’s website. March 9, 2016 Updated: March 9, 2016 4:27pm If it’s not a water grab, it comes close. That’s one way to view a move by Southern California’s largest water district to buy a handful of Sacramento Delta...Read More
For Immediate Release: March 9, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org Stockton, CA – The federal Securities and Exchange Commission charged California’s largest agricultural water district today with misleading investors about its financial condition as it issued a $77 million bond offering, with one of its managers bragging about using “a little Enron accounting.” California’s largest...Read More
Dear friends, The board of Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (Met) voted on March 8 to buy 20,000 acres of farm islands in the heart of the Delta. Two of the islands lie in the heart of the proposed tunnels route. Jeff Kightlinger, Metropolitan’s general manager, told the Sacramento Bee the islands will be...Read More
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
