Fitch Ratings, which rates bonds, has assigned a rating of AA- to Westlands Water District (WWD). Some interesting comments (with emphasis added) from the Fitch analysis: “WWD’s future capital needs continue to be focused on obtaining additional water entitlements and to firm up delivery of existing entitlements. Capital improvements in the district have averaged just...Read More
Thanks to Dan Odenweller of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Stockton for showing Over Troubled Waters at the church this past weekend. Viewers there were interested in the use of surplus water to grow permanent crops and in the ensuing pressure for water. We’re delighted to have people show the film and will be happy...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… Barbara Barrigan-Parilla and Robert Pyke: Yo Gov. Brown–fixing Delta levees IS feasible By Barbara Barrigan-Parilla and Robert Pyke Special to the Mercury News Published 09/21/2012 Click here to read online...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… From Dubai to Los Angeles, Water Barons Are All the Same By Wenonah Hauter Food & Water Watch Executive Director Wenonah Hauter Published September 17th, 2012 Sometimes the forces working to...Read More
Restore the Delta’s just-released documentary, Over Troubled Waters, has touched a nerve with its assertion that some interests maneuvering to get Delta water want to sell it at a profit. The State Water Contractors are accusing us of “fact-free discourse” in a new publication they’re calling “Delta Doozy.” To support their case, they point to...Read More
Fishing and conservation groups have won the first round in their attempt to get state and federal officials to follow water quality laws and comply with the Clean Water Act. Selenium in agricultural water discharges from the west side of the San Joaquin Valley has been a problem since 1985, when cow deaths and migratory...Read More
At the BDCP public meeting on August 29, Resources deputy secretary Jerry Meral provided an updated project description consistent with the one announced by the Governor and federal officials on July 26. Still unresolved are upstream effects such as reservoir operation and temperature issues; the exact location of the three proposed intakes; and how the...Read More
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy and Governor Edmund G. “Pat” Brown (father of the present Governor) going to Los Banos to break ground for the San Luis Dam. Congressman Jim Costa compares the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and Governor Jerry Brown’s twin-peripheral tunnel vision to the San Luis project....Read More
Research by Deirdre Des Jardins of California Water Research Associates reveals that B. F. Sisk Dam has clay soils underneath it. They were bone dry when Bureau of Reclamation engineers tested the soils, and the dam was engineered based on the properties of the dry clay soils. But clay expands and gets slippery when it...Read More
