Saving the Delta requires sacrifice by all, not just residents of this region. I hope someone drilled that idea into the State Water Resources Control Board. The board, whose Sisyphean job is to ensure California’s water is used fairly, brought its road show to Stockton last Friday for a public hearing on its dubious Water...Read More
Read our op-ed in KCET on PPIC’s single tunnel alternative. “If, indeed, support for the Big Twin Tunnels project is fading, let’s kill that proposal once and for all. Californians who voted in 1982 against the Peripheral Canal assumed we had made that decision long ago.” – Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the DeltaRead More
For Immediate Release: 12/16/2016 Contact: Brian Smith, 415-320-9384, brian@bpspr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org President Obama Signs Water Resources Development Act Midnight rider caused Boxer/Feinstein split over West Coast salmon Stockton, CA – Today, President Obama signed the Water Resources Development Act. This law will fund dozens of new, and necessary, water infrastructure projects around the...Read More
If you missed the live broadcast of our case against the Delta Tunnels permit request, you can watch or listen to our team below via YouTube. Opening statement – Watch here. Tim Stroshane: Tunnels Modeling, Flow Alterations, Water Quality, and A New Water Right – Watch here. Senator Mike Machado (Ret.): Salinity and Economic Impacts...Read More
In case you missed it! Mother Jones California Is About to Funnel Water to Farms—While Screwing the Ecosystems Around Them By JOSH HARKINSON December 9, 2016 Link at website A controversial bill that would override environmental rules to supply farmers with more water from California’s ecologically sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta sailed through the House...Read More
REMINDER: Watch the hearing live today at this link, starting 9:15-9:00 a.m. For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 8, 2016 Contact: Brian Smith, 415-320-9384, brian@bpspr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org Restore the Delta Presents Case Against Delta Tunnels Permit to State Water Board Sacramento – This morning, Restore the Delta (with legal support from Earthjustice)...Read More
For Immediate Release: 12/2/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, (209) 479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org DELTA TUNNELS Plan B Presented by Public Policy Institute of California Stockton – This week a coalition of conservation and public interest organizations sent a letter to Obama administration officials calling for the termination of the proposed Delta Tunnels. ...Read More
For Immediate Release: November 29, 2016 Contact: Robert Wright, Friends of the River, 916-442-3155 x207 bwright@friendsoftheriver.org Brian Smith, 415-320-9384, brian@bpspr.com Obama Administration Asked to Kill Delta Tunnels Plan Financial and environmental “nightmare” would become his legacy Sacramento, CA – On Monday, a coalition of California fishing, conservation, and public interest groups sent a...Read More
Excerpt: The tunnels represent a failure of imagination. The project looks backward, to an era when hard technology was installed across the state to transport water hundreds of miles, regardless of construction and energy costs and environmental impacts.Read More
For Immediate Release: 11/16/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org San Diego Water Leader Questions Delta Tunnels Backers Why ignore region’s water sustainability projects? Stockton, CA – Yesterday, San Diego County Water Authority’s General Manager, Maureen Stapleton, sent a letter to CA Natural Resources Secretary John Laird asserting that Dr. David Sunding’s economic analysis...Read More
