Today is Giving Tuesday and there’s a big bad wolf in our neighborhood. No, we aren’t talking about giant nutria invading the Delta—we’re talking about the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Let’s face the facts: Metropolitan presently owns five Delta islands. As the top financial contributor to the tunnels project, Metropolitan has the most...Read More
In Case You Missed It: Secret Negotiations on Bay-Delta Plan Unfolding as Brown Hints at Major Water Announcement in Next 30 Days It’s been a busy week at Restore the Delta. Here’s what you need to know: Newsom and Brown wade into California water wars to delay plan to help fish – Ryan Sabalow for...Read More
California WaterFix was not selected by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for a water infrastructure WIFIA loan for 2019. WIFIA loans are generally used for public-private-partnerships, and are guaranteed by U.S. taxpayers. Restore the Delta was the first entity to track this process and has worked on uncovering and tracking WIFIA loan activities since...Read More
In Case You Missed It: State Water Board Member Shares Pro-Tunnels Bias in Water Deeply Story Today, Water Deeply published a story titled, “Massive California Water Tunnel Project Forges Ahead on Several Fronts.” One of those fronts forging ahead is led by a subgroup of the State Water Resources Control Board, responsible for the evidentiary...Read More
Media Roundup: Newspapers Take On Proposition 3 + City of San Francisco Teams Up with Trump Administration on the Tuolumne River Sacramento Bee: Prop. 3 promises more California water projects. Too bad so many are the wrong projects – The Sacramento Bee Editorial Board “We must do more to protect the future of California’s water,...Read More
ICYMI: 9/28/18 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org In Case You Missed It: Dr. Jeff Michael: “New WaterFix Economic Analysis Is Even Worse” Than Originally Thought In his ValleyEcon Blog, Dr. Jeff Michael, Executive Director of the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific, explains that that the...Read More
Yesterday, the Department of Water Resources released a benefit-cost analysis on the Delta tunnels project, or CA WaterFix, conducted by Dr. David Sunding of the Brattle Group. In response to this study, Executive Director of the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific, Dr. Jeffery Michael published a blog post...Read More
Bethany Pane, Chief Counsel for the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) sent an email on September 19 to DSC subscribers that three council members have recused themselves from the Delta tunnels appeals proceedings due to potential conflicts of interest. Specifically, Ms. Pane noted that council member Susan Tatayon’s spouse “works for a firm that has submitted...Read More
Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA 3rd District) recently sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Andrew Wheeler describing the “misrepresentations” present in the Delta Conveyance Finance Authority (DCFA) Letter of Interest (LOI) for the Delta Tunnels project, formally known as the California WaterFix. The Congressman’s letter asserts that the WaterFix LOI overestimates the amount...Read More
In Case You Missed It: Highlights from RTD’S EJ Report Press Conference Read our press release here. Tunnel foes shift focus to Delta’s most disadvantaged communities – Stockton Record “It is the role of government agencies to consider environmental justice concerns as they affect all groups of people, including communities of color and low-income residents...Read More
