“I find a former partner of Resnick. He doesn’t know about the pipeline. What he knows is that Wonderful is buying up to 50,000 acre-feet of water a year in a series of hidden deals. The sellers include farmers in the Tulare Lake basin who are pumping so much water out of the ground that...Read More
STOCKTON – Yesterday, Restore the Delta, represented by Earthjustice, joined a motion to stay for part two of the CA WaterFix hearing before the State Water Resources Control Board, initially filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, and The Bay Institute. The motion to stay explains that continuing with the CA...Read More
Political columnist Dan Walters gets a lot right in his recent CALMatters Commentary piece on Jerry Brown’s failing high speed rail system and Delta tunnels proposal. But he loses us when he discusses the need for a new conveyance project that sends Delta water south, writing, “Conversely, the need for some sort of water...Read More
In case you missed it! Editorial: Don’t give Southern California control of Delta water – San Jose Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards “The Associated Press reports that the governor is considering removing control of design, construction and operation of any Delta project from the state Department of Water Resources and giving it to...Read More
SACRAMENTO – This morning, Governor Jerry Brown briefly discussed the Delta tunnels project (CA WaterFix) during his final State of the State address, defending his persistence on the project, but dodging the burning question on the minds of the press, environmental groups, Northern California tribes, commercial and recreational fishermen, and environmental justice communities: will the...Read More
SACRAMENTO – Today, Delta and river advocates—including Klamath River Tribal Members, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, commercial & recreational fishing groups, and Restore the Delta—rallied at the State Capitol to voice their opposition against the Trump Administration’s proposal to maximize water deliveries to the Central Valley Project. The new federal proposal to increase Delta exports...Read More
STOCKTON – Today, Restore the Delta called for the abolition of the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) in a powerful comment letter directed at the Council’s recently released Draft Program Environmental Impact Report (DPEIR) on the Delta Plan Amendments that would greenlight the Delta tunnels and other new storage projects around the state. In the...Read More
This afternoon, the Sacramento Bee published a report on the newly appointed director of the Department of Water Resources (DWR), Karla Nemeth. The article misses the mark on why Nemeth is an irresponsible choice, mainly focusing on her marriage to Metropolitan Water District employee Tom Philp instead of her own professional work history at the...Read More
Today, the California State Water Board announced that it would take two weeks to investigate allegations of illegal meetings and unlawful ex parte communications between the Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the State Board’s CA WaterFix (Delta Tunnels) hearing team, thereby postponing the first tunnels hearing of 2018 to February 2. Protestants San...Read More
ADVISORY: 1/18/18 Contact: Nora Kovaleski, 408-806-6470, nora@kovaleskipr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, (209) 479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org WHO: North Delta Cares, Delta locals and advocates, State Water Resources Control Board WHAT: Part 2 of California WaterFix Water Right Change Petition Hearing WHERE: CalEPA Building, 1001 I Street, Second Floor, Sacramento, CA in the Coastal...Read More
