Oddly enough, the scenario modeled in the new report doesn’t bear much resemblance to the projects central to the Delta Plan and the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). For example, it assumes a dual conveyance system averaging 4.9 million acre feet per year, about what exporters got between 1980 and 2000. But exporters have made...Read More
A memo to the South Delta Water Agency Board of Directors by SDWA Counsel and Manager John Herrick highlights some of the problems with science in the PPIC report. The analysis, he says, “appears to be based on a fundamental lack of understanding of the hydrodynamics, hydraulics, diversions, and water quality data of the area.”...Read More
We’ll have more to say later about the quality of research in the new PPIC report. We will note here, though, that for a January 11 article on the PPIC report, KQED’s Climate Watch blog interviewed PPIC economist and report author Ellen Hanak. “She recounted the story of a 2004 levee break on the Jones...Read More
Reporting on Governor Brown’s proposed 2012-13 Budget, ACWA (the Association of California Water Agencies) says “The budget calls for ‘bold investments’ [Brown’s words] in the state’s future. . . , including habitat and conveyance improvements in the Delta through the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan. It proposes $25 million and 135 positions within the Department of Water...Read More
Assembly member Alyson Huber’s bill to require a fiscal analysis of Delta conveyance, a Legislative vote, and protection of existing Delta uses failed to make it out of committee last week by a narrow 6 to 5 vote. Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife chair Jared Huffman supported the bill and complained that the BDCP was...Read More
The Coalition for a Sustainable Delta (which is actually an agribusiness coalition for unsustainable levels of water exports) is urging the California Fish and Game Commission to approve proposed changed to striped bass fishing regulations at its meeting on February 2. They call non-native striped bass a “key stressor impacting endangered salmon and smelt populations...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Restore the Delta 10100 Trinity Pkwy, Suite 120 Stockton, CA 95219 Email: Barbara@restorethedelta.org Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Phone:209-479-2053 January 11, 2012 RESTORE THE DELTA CALLS OUT WEAKNESSES IN PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE’S REPORT ON THE DELTA’S ECONOMIC FUTURE Stockton, California – Restore the Delta is challenging the accuracy and value of the Public Policy...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Restore the Delta 10100 Trinity Pkwy, Suite 120 Stockton, CA 95219 Email: Barbara@restorethedelta.org Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Phone:209-479-2053 January 10, 2012 ED BEGELEY JR. NARRATES RESTORE THE DELTA’S DOCUMENTARY: OVER TROUBLED WATERS Stockton, California – Renowned actor and environmental advocate Ed Begley Jr. is slated to narrate Restore the Delta’s...Read More
Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Delta Plan are due by February 2. A common observation among those commenting is that the Delta Plan doesn’t provide a clear and specific project for which the environmental impact can be evaluated. And if it is a programmatic EIR, what are the measurable standards...Read More
In November, the news was full of the name Paterno – Joe Paterno, the Penn State football coach who was fired after the arrest of one of his long-time assistant coaches on child sexual abuse charges. For people who follow water issues in the Central Valley, the name Paterno has another association – the 2003...Read More
