The 2009 Delta Reform legislation recognized that a sustainable water future for the whole state depends on reducing reliance on the Delta.  NO conveyance will lead to that result.  Not the Peripheral Tunnels.  Not a smaller tunnel.  Not a tunnel in a different part of the Delta.  Every process investing time and resources in new...Read More

Check out Table 2 on page 14 of the most recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) (“Stress Relief: Prescriptions for a Healthier Delta Ecosystem”).  It shows the results of a survey of scientists and stakeholders on options to improve the Delta ecosystem.  Options with the highest scientific consensus and the highest...Read More

The Senate Natural Resources Committee and the Select Committee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta had a joint information hearing on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan this week, but of course they didn’t want to hear the perspectives of too many in-Delta interests that think the plan is a bad idea.  Roger Patterson of the Metropolitan...Read More

Pile driving – there are about 1,000 steel piles that have to be hammered into the ground/river:  30 piles per day (8-12 per intake) with 700 strikes per day for each pile.  So, 30 X 700 = 21,000 strikes per day of a pile driver which will sound like a bomb going off with each...Read More

Peripheral Tunnels’ Manager Admits Tunnels Will Provide “No Additional Water for So. Cal.”; and Won’t Save Delta  So, Why Should We Pay for a $50 Billion Project?    There is a Better Solution Dr. Jerry Meral, point person for the Brown Administration on Delta issues, recently said, “the Delta cannot be saved.” In an opinion-editorial...Read More

Peripheral Tunnels Opponents to Protest at Vote: Delta Plan Fails to Comply with the Law; Protects an Unsustainable Status Quo Sacramento, CA – Opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom salmon and other Pacific fisheries announced today they would protest at the Delta Stewardship Council’s...Read More

In case you missed it… The Sacramento Bee Editorial: If BDCP were science-based, Delta flows would be a priority By the Editorial Board Originally Published Sunday, May. 12, 2013 For more than a decade, the big farm and urban districts that have grown dependent on water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta have tried to discredit...Read More

Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla to Oppose Peripheral Tunnels at Senate Water Hearing Why the Governor’s Peripheral Tunnels are the Wrong Answers to Fair Water Policy Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director of Restore the Delta, a 10,000-member grassroots organization committed to making the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fishable, swimmable, drinkable, and farmable benefiting all of California, will oppose the governor’s...Read More

Restore the Delta’s Response to Congressman Jim Costa’s call to restrict the Endangered Species Act By Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta “Congressman Jim Costa’s call to restrict the Endangered Species Act gets to the heart of the problem with current management of the Delta, as well as Governor Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan. ...Read More

Sacramento, CA – Opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom salmon and other Pacific fisheries today noted new criticism of the proposed tunnels for ignoring science and better alternatives. “Restore the Delta is encouraged that independent experts are coming to see the Peripheral Tunnels as...Read More