The California Department of Water Resources public hearings on the draft environmental impact report (EIR) on the proposed Delta Conveyance Project have begun. Read Barbara’s latest blog on the subject for a summary of where we are right now in the process. We need everyone to get involved. Below you will find instructions from DWR on how to...Read More
The proposed Tunnel is a 1995 answer to new challenges California faces in 2022.At the end of July, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) dropped the environmental impact report (EIR) on the proposed Delta Conveyance Project. While the Newsom Administration is wasting time and failing to solve serious problems in the present, RTD is busy tackling the massive...Read More
The proposed Tunnel is a 1995 answer to the challenges California faces in 2022.At the end of July, Department of Water Resources (DWR) dropped the environmental impact report (EIR) on the proposed Delta Conveyance Project. While the Newsom Administration is wasting time and failing to solve serious problems in the present. We at RTD are tackling the...Read More
For Immediate Release: 8/23/22 Sacramento, CA – Represented by the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford, California Tribes and environmental justice organizations have sent a formal Request for Reconsideration of the State Water Resources Control Board decision in June of this year denying their Petition to review and update water quality standards for the Bay-Delta. The Request points out...Read More
This symposium will be led by panelists who are roughly 30 and under. This event will cover various Environmental Justice related topics, such as climate change mitigation as opportunity, Harmful Algal Blooms, EJ communities, public access, cultural and historical resources, and water quality and how they fit in Delta planning. It is vital that we build...Read More
– Tim Stroshane, RTD policy analyst We got the news early Thursday when the Los Angeles Times reported that Governor Gavin Newsom had released a plan to deal with California’s aridification. Might be a new approach! Newsom, however, did not anticipate the same day the institutional death of 21,000 captive fish under study at the University of California,...Read More
For Immediate Release: 8/11/22Contact:Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.orgStockton, CA – Today, Governor Newsom released a significant new water plan “California’s Water Supply Strategy: Adapting to a Hotter, Drier Future.”Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, executive director, Restore the Delta, said:“The California water supply strategy document released by the Newsom administration today is a step in the right direction. “We are happy...Read More
Two Bay-Delta stories on the same day show an estuary in crisis. Lack of freshwater flow is the cause. In dry California, salty water creeps into key waterways – AP 8/8/22They may be close by, but these two rivers, central arms of California’s water system, have become too salty to use in some places as the state’s punishing...Read More
For Immediate Release: 7/26/22 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.orgSacramento, Calif. – Today the California Department of Water Resources released their Draft Environmental Impact Report on the Delta Conveyance (Delta Tunnel) Project. Versions of this massive public works proposal have roiled California water policy since it was first rejected by California voters in 1982 as the Peripheral...Read More
Restore the Delta received word over the weekend that the Department of Water Resources will be releasing their Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) early this week for the Delta Conveyance Project. Documents for federal review of the project will be released later this fall. Now we need your help. It’s time to write Governor Newsom...Read More
