Media Advisory for Saturday, October 6, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta “Over Troubled Waters”: Sustainable Water Advocates, Premiere Film on Water Wars Over Troubled Waters, a documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, will premiere in Brentwood on Saturday, October 6th, at the Delta Cinema in Brentwood....Read More
To get the geotechnical information needed to build the peripheral tunnels, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) has been trying to use eminent domain to obtain drilling easements in the Delta. Now a San Joaquin County judge has denied a motion by DWR for an order of “pre-judgment possession” in one of the eminent domain...Read More
We’re thrilled to report that Restore the Delta’s documentary Over Troubled Waters has been selected to be part of the 9th Annual Artivist International Film Festival, to be held November 1-4 in Hollywood. We’re especially honored to participate in a film festival that accepts works from all around the globe. The Artivist Film Festival will...Read More
Nancy Vogel of the Department of Water Resources, posting to a new blog for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) reported on September 26 that “No one can say exactly how much water would be diverted under any of the nine BDCP alternative projects now being studied. That includes the proposal to shift the major...Read More
We’re now looking at December 20 for the release of the EIR/EIS for the BDCP. It was scheduled for September, then October . . . This should make for nice light holiday reading.Read More
Media Advisory for Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta “Over Troubled Waters”: Sustainable Water Advocates Premiere Film on Water Wars Over Troubled Waters, a documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, will premiere in Antioch on Tuesday, October 2, at the El Campanil Theatre. Following...Read More
For Immediate Release: Thursday, September 27, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta “Over Troubled Waters”: Selected to Participate in 9th Annual Artivist Film Festival Over Troubled Waters, a documentary about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, has been selected as a participant in this years 9th Annual Artivist Film...Read More
The Department of Water Resources (DWR), created by the legislature during a special session in 1956, and the State Water Project (SWP), authorized by the Burns-Porter Act in 1959, have been closely linked almost from their inceptions. In 1957, DWR published the first California Water Plan, Bulletin No. 3, the last of three bulletins presenting...Read More
Sponsors of the “meeting amenities” for the Plenary were consulting firms MWH, RMC, CH2M Hill, and Edelman. When the government doesn’t have tax money to pay for this kind of policy process, private entities come in to fill the breach. Special thanks went to the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) for their significant...Read More
Case in point: the Kern Water Bank. The California Farm Water Coalition has taken issue with our statement in our last newsletter that the Kern Water Bank was developed with state money and taxpayer approved bonds. “The Kern Water Bank property,” they say, “was originally acquired by the California Department of Water Resources through the...Read More
