Media Advisory for Saturday, February 2, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Kara Buchanan 916/479-2388 Delta Water Expert to Tell Bay Area League of Women Voters of Fatal Flaws in Governor’s Peripheral Tunnels Delta water expert, Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Executive Director of Restore the Delta, will address the...Read More

Stockton attorney Tom Keeling reports positive developments in the effort to keep DWR from doing exploratory drilling on private land in the Delta in order to gather information to build the peripheral tunnels. In October, Delta landowners successfully opposed DWR’s motions for pre-judgment possession in eminent domain actions in four counties.  Responding to those rulings,...Read More

At this week’s BDCP Finance Committee meeting, economist Dr. David Sunding announced that the only two alternatives being considered for the statewide cost-benefit analysis of the Peripheral Tunnels project are . . . project, or NO project.  If there are other ways to ensure reliable water supplies, such as strengthening Delta levees, the State isn’t...Read More

It has been clear all along that tinkering with the Delta would not by itself get exporters the volume of water they want with the predictability they want.  They’re looking for ways to increase storage north of the Delta, and that includes getting the Bureau of Reclamation to raise Shasta Dam by 18.5 feet. A...Read More

The Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) has now taken all the feedback it is going to take on the final draft of the Delta Plan, the Programmatic Environmental Impact Report  (PEIR), and the Proposed Rulemaking (basically, how the DSC will make whatever rules it decides to make under the Delta Plan). This Delta Plan is deeply...Read More