Last week we reported on some of the interactions between Delta landowners and the Department of Water Resources as it tries to collect the geotechnical data needed for preliminary engineering studies for a tunnel. DWR has been somewhat insensitive, to put the matter kindly. We’ve heard from another Delta landowner. She reports that she and...Read More
Restore the Delta is one of over 200 organizations that have signed a letter to the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) criticizing the Delta Plan that the Council has spent over a year developing. The signers include environmental, environmental justice, tribal, and commercial and recreational fishing organizations from all over California – the most diverse group...Read More
The Water Contractors have finally exhausted the considerable patience of the large environmental organizations that have been at the table with them for the last three years. American Rivers, The Bay Institute, Defenders of Wildlife, Environmental Defense Fund, and the Natural Resources Defense Council expressed their reservations about the BDCP in a letter to John...Read More
Yesterday, Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA-11), joined by Congressional Representatives George Miller, John Garamendi, Mike Thompson, and Doris Matsui met with Deputy Secretary Jerry Meral of the BDCP to express their “grave concern” that the project as planned will bring great harm to the Delta region. To read more about this meeting, click here to read...Read More
