Isenberg refers to a variety of near-term actions that have been proposed or undertaken and speculates about a “legislative near term deal” that would, among other actions: Improve the current Delta water export system, the Delta ecosystem, and Delta flood protection for statewide and in-Delta interests. Use existing federal and state agencies along with independent...Read More
Almost annually since 1967, the California Department of Fish and Game has conducted a Fall Midwater Trawl Survey (FMWT) from September through December to index the fall abundance of pelagic fishes. Here are results from the 2012 Survey, completed December 12: Delta smelt index – 42, one of the lowest indices in FMWT history. (Compare...Read More
If you weren’t watching this year’s Super Bowl, or if you weren’t watching the ads, you missed South Korean hip hop artist PSY doing his Gangnam Style dance with a bunch of life-sized Wonderful Pistachios, shilling for Paramount Farms. (If the dance moves look suggestive to you, well, where have you been? “Crack your nuts...Read More
In case you missed it… RecordNet.com Delta plan’s one glaring omission: the Delta By Michael Fitzgerald January 27, 2013 Record Columnist “Gov. Jerry Brown snubbed the Delta region in his annual State of the State address this week. Sometimes it seems Brown has it in for us. “The governor’s record can be read as the...Read More
Media Advisory for Saturday, February 2, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Kara Buchanan 916/479-2388 Delta Water Expert to Tell Bay Area League of Women Voters of Fatal Flaws in Governor’s Peripheral Tunnels Delta water expert, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, will address the...Read More
Stockton attorney Tom Keeling reports positive developments in the effort to keep DWR from doing exploratory drilling on private land in the Delta in order to gather information to build the peripheral tunnels. In October, Delta landowners successfully opposed DWR’s motions for pre-judgment possession in eminent domain actions in four counties. Responding to those rulings,...Read More
At this week’s BDCP Finance Committee meeting, economist Dr. David Sunding announced that the only two alternatives being considered for the statewide cost-benefit analysis of the Peripheral Tunnels project are . . . project, or NO project. If there are other ways to ensure reliable water supplies, such as strengthening Delta levees, the State isn’t...Read More
It has been clear all along that tinkering with the Delta would not by itself get exporters the volume of water they want with the predictability they want. They’re looking for ways to increase storage north of the Delta, and that includes getting the Bureau of Reclamation to raise Shasta Dam by 18.5 feet. A...Read More
The Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) has now taken all the feedback it is going to take on the final draft of the Delta Plan, the Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (PEIR), and the Proposed Rulemaking (basically, how the DSC will make whatever rules it decides to make under the Delta Plan). This Delta Plan is deeply...Read More
News Media Advisory Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta California Water War Expert, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Available for Interviews Why Both the Governor’s Peripheral Tunnels and the “One Tunnel” Proposal are the Wrong Answers to Fair Water Policy Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla is the Executive Director for Restore the Delta, a...Read More
