For Immediate Release: Friday November 30, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.comTwitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Final Delta Plan Continues to be Inefficient Fails to Include Measurable Actions for Protecting the Delta The Delta Stewardship Council has just released their Final Draft of the Delta Plan, along with the Draft Program Environmental...Read More

November 29 was a busy day for everyone trying to keep track of what the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is up to. At a Finance Working Group meeting in the morning, BDCP representatives announced their willingness to do a complete statewide benefit-cost analysis, something they have refused for years to do. Dr. David Sunding...Read More

In the afternoon, Deputy Resources Secretary Jerry Meral presided over a BDCP Public Meeting. The meeting was supposed to be webcast, but the Pagoda Building was apparently not a good venue for webcasts, and some interested people in the Delta were never able to see the meeting, although Meral did respond to email questions. Meral...Read More

From deep in the weeds of a meeting like this, it is easy to lose sight of one extraordinary fact: the Peripheral Tunnels are being put forward as a CONSERVATION MEASURE. That is, BDCP assumes tunnels will do LESS damage to the Bay-Delta than current operations of the export projects do. BDCP includes 22 Conservation...Read More

Nancy Vogel, a Department of Water Resources employee blogging for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), has thrown the agency’s support behind a study that minimizes the effect of reduced water quality on agriculture in the Delta. She cites a study by the U. C. Davis Center for Watershed Sciences that found the cost of...Read More