The North Delta’s Peter Stone is the only Delta resident currently participating in the BDCP Public Finance Work Group. He reports that the vast majority of the participants are water contractors, NGOs and various governmental agencies. Stone is participating in order to influence how BDCP is financed should it actually be approved. Participants in the...Read More

The California Water Commission had scheduled two days last week to deal with resolutions of necessity for eminent domain so that the Department of Water Resources (DWR) can go forward with geotechnical investigations in the Delta. But the Water Commission dispensed with matters in one day, having debated the most important issues at their September...Read More

Also on November 16, the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) folks had a public meeting, and Stockton attorney George Hartmann, who represents Delta reclamation districts, told Resources Secretary Jerry Meral that it was hard to see how converting 133,000 acres of prime Delta farmland to habitat was going to be good for the people of...Read More