Five alternatives to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) are being offered to meet California’s water needs without further damaging the Bay-Delta ecosystem, and every one of them is better than BDCP.  Restore the Delta maintains that each one of these plans should be studied in full by the BDCP as viable alternatives.  The BDCP,...Read More

Limiting exports from the Delta to 3 MAF a year is based on water realities.  Even in 1960, the men planning the State Water Project knew that was all they could reliably get out of the Delta. A graph in Bulletin No. 76, Delta Water Facilities (1960), shows that any demand over 3 MAF a...Read More

Smart urban water agencies haven’t been waiting for transfer supplies to dry up before they started planning for local alternatives. The prime example is Orange County, which has been relying on recycled water for years. Senator John Garamendi has pointed out that the fifth biggest river on the west coast of the Western hemisphere is...Read More

The 2009 Delta Reform legislation recognized that a sustainable water future for the whole state depends on reducing reliance on the Delta.  NO conveyance will lead to that result.  Not the Peripheral Tunnels.  Not a smaller tunnel.  Not a tunnel in a different part of the Delta.  Every process investing time and resources in new...Read More

Check out Table 2 on page 14 of the most recent report from the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) (“Stress Relief: Prescriptions for a Healthier Delta Ecosystem”).  It shows the results of a survey of scientists and stakeholders on options to improve the Delta ecosystem.  Options with the highest scientific consensus and the highest...Read More

The Senate Natural Resources Committee and the Select Committee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta had a joint information hearing on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan this week, but of course they didn’t want to hear the perspectives of too many in-Delta interests that think the plan is a bad idea.  Roger Patterson of the Metropolitan...Read More

Pile driving – there are about 1,000 steel piles that have to be hammered into the ground/river:  30 piles per day (8-12 per intake) with 700 strikes per day for each pile.  So, 30 X 700 = 21,000 strikes per day of a pile driver which will sound like a bomb going off with each...Read More

Peripheral Tunnels’ Manager Admits Tunnels Will Provide “No Additional Water for So. Cal.”; and Won’t Save Delta  So, Why Should We Pay for a $50 Billion Project?    There is a Better Solution Dr. Jerry Meral, point person for the Brown Administration on Delta issues, recently said, “the Delta cannot be saved.” In an opinion-editorial...Read More