Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District Zone 7 Association of California Water Agencies Calleguas Municipal Water District California Chamber of Commerce Castaic Lake Water Agency Coachella Valley Water District Desert Water Agency East Valley Water District Eastern Municipal Water District Friant Water Authority Inland Empire Utilities Agency Irvine Ranch Water District Kern County...Read More

For Immediate Release:  Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Contact:  Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546  steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; 209/479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Sacramento, CA – Consumer and environmental advocates today succeeded in winning Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Comm. approval for an independent cost-benefit analysis before committing the public to pay tens of billions of dollars to...Read More

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft (916) 457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; (209) 479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Sacramento, CA – Consumer and environmental advocates today called for an independent cost-benefit analysis before committing the public to pay tens of billions of dollars to build a Peripheral Canal or Tunnel to...Read More

Media Advisory for: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft (916) 457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; (209) 479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Consumer, Environmental Advocates to Call for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Peripheral Canal/Tunnel: How Much Would Water Rates Rise? Who Benefits? Three Delta-related bills will be heard at the beginning of the Assembly Water, Parks...Read More

Dear Friends, Tuesday morning at the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Hearing, this committee will decide if AB 2421 (Berryhill), a costs benefit analysis for the peripheral canal, will move forward throughout the legislative process. The water export users listed below say that a cost benefit analysis of the proposed project would actually interfere with...Read More

Excerpts from Switchboard:  Natural Resources Defense Council Staff Blog Tina Swanson’s Blog California’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan Has No Clothes  Posted April 17, 2012 “The result of this five-year, $140 million effort is a [BDCP] draft plan that, according to its own ‘effects analysis,’ would make the existing situation worse by further degrading estuarine habitat, harming...Read More

Delta Levee Standards Conference Scholarships Available! The Delta Protection Commission and the Water Education Foundation are sponsoring a Delta Levee Standards Conference on May 2. The agenda has pairs of experts speaking on Delta levee standards and on the relationship of Delta levees to conveyance, habitat, and public safety. Each pair of speakers will be...Read More

Governor Jerry Brown is proposing to make the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) part of the Resources Agency, where the Department of Water Resources is pushing the peripheral canal that the DSC is supposed to have the power to veto. The 2009 legislation that created the Stewardship Council made it an independent body reporting to the...Read More

An important purpose of this newsletter is to provide an ongoing narrative of the various processes that affect the Delta – from a Delta perspective. More often than not, the Delta’s story is represented by officials from outside the Delta who have easy access to media and large public relations budgets, and who support the...Read More

Dear friends, Two important pieces of legislation are currently making their way through the legislature. AB 2421 (Berryhill) calls for the Legislative Analyst’s Office to conduct a cost benefit analysis prior to the construction of the peripheral canal. AB 1813 (Buchannan) calls for the establishment of flow criteria new flow criteria established by the State...Read More