In our report last week on the Senate Natural Resources and Water committee hearing on the DSC and the BDCP, we described an exchange between Senator Wolk and Westlands chief deputy general manager Jason Peltier. The Senator asked if Westlands would accept a stipulation that water delivered under the BDCP would go only to continued...Read More

H.R. 1837, the “Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley Water Reliability Act” now making its way through Congress, would render the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) largely irrelevant. So it is curious that the Legislative update to the Stewardship Council last week didn’t mention H.R. 1837. Staff were more interested in a measure by Congressman Garamendi dealing with flood...Read More

Staff reported that they had separated comments received on the Fifth Draft of the Delta Plan into two types: those related to changes in the Plan’s policies and recommendations, and those related to the supporting text. Comments that suggest changes in the Plan’s policies and recommendations fell into the following categories (see this table ): covered...Read More

At this week’s California Water Commission (CWC) meeting, the Commission voted to revise twenty-one previously approved Resolutions of Necessity to incorporate new language regarding Quitclaims and Hazardous Waste Testing to make them consistent with resolutions approved since February 15, 2012. That’s what happens when you hurry. There were only three Resolutions of Necessity proposed for...Read More

Rob Davis, on voiceofsandiego.org, writes about the conflict over water rates between Metropolitan Water District and the San Diego County Water Authority, one of MWD’s member agencies. San Diego, you may recall, is balking at helping to pay for conveying Delta water to Southern California. It seems that MWD has formed a working group and...Read More