After last month’s Delta Protection Commission (DPC) meeting ran into the wee hours of the morning, commissioners were forced to table the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP) and their differences in opinion on how the final product should be worded. For the past month, internal discussion between commission members and their staff had resolved all but...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla Phone: (209) 479-2053 Restore the Delta 10100 Trinity Pkwy, Suite 120 Stockton, CA 95219 Email: Barbara@restorethedelta.org Department of Water Resources Hires State Water Contractor Rep to Help Oversee Delta Planning Laura King Moon, Assistant General Manager of the State Water Contractors, has been tapped by the California Department of Water...Read More
On Wednesday morning, October 19, the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee held a joint oversight hearing on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. This was one of the periodic hearings in which legislators are reminded of how little influence they have over the Delta planning processes going forward. A Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed recently...Read More
The legislators heard from a panel including both Roger Patterson of the Metropolitan Water Agency (MWD) and Dennis Cushman of the San Diego Water Authority, which is MWD’s largest member agency, buying about a quarter of everything MWD sells. Cushman raised an issue that we haven’t heard much about yet: What is the real demand...Read More
Staff from the Department of Water Resources conduct regular research assignments and write reports to assist officials with making water management decisions. At other times, these assignments are given to contractors to create the information that the Department of Water Resources needs to facilitate the planning of projects. Restore the Delta finds two such reports...Read More
Does the State Water Project’s largest contractor have enough customers actually willing to pay for the conveyance being contemplated? With that question in mind, let us turn to our report on the California Water Commission meeting on Wednesday afternoon. At the Water Commission, DWR is urging Commissioners to act under the assumption that new conveyance...Read More
An alcoholic has to admit to having a drinking problem before that problem can be solved. And California has to admit to having a water problem – and understand the real nature of that problem – before it goes spending a lot of money on “solutions”. That was one important take-away message from the October...Read More
We keep hearing about outrageous behavior by people acting as agents for the Department of Water Resources in the Delta. This week it was an individual showing up at 8 p.m. and letting himself into the home of an elderly woman to serve her with court papers. Her caregiver, reminded of similar night-time visitations in...Read More
