Now here’s a silly bit of reasoning from the south-of-Delta water users who never tire of looking for scapegoats to blame when they don’t get all the water they want: Southern resident Peuget Sound orcas – also known as killer whales – eat Chinook salmon. Chinook salmon runs in the Delta have severely declined. It...Read More

Phil Isenberg, Chair of the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC), reacted to last week’s announcement by Governor Brown and Secretary Salazar with more support than we’d like to see from the chair of a body that will have authority to incorporate the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) into the Delta Plan for the California Delta. (Read...Read More

During the past five years, while Californians have been subjected to increasingly panicked predictions about an earthquake causing levee failures in the California Delta, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) has been doing a Corrective Action Study to figure out how to prevent an earthquake-caused dam failure that “could inundate hundreds of square miles...Read More

In our last newsletter, we reported that the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA), which wholesales State Water Project Water to Santa Barbara County, had voted not to go forward with the BDCP and the peripheral canal. Carolee Krieger, President of California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), reports that although four Southcoast water agencies voted not to...Read More