The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. – Pablo Picasso Art and the Delta as Place Arts activists from around the U.S. and the world will hear about the Delta in September thanks to two young Delta advocates. At Gabfestry, an Arts Activist conference in Maine, students...Read More
Media Advisory for Thursday, August 8, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Restore the Delta to Tell Brown Administration: Economic Impacts Report is Work of Fiction; There is a more Cost-Effective Solution than Tunnels Restore the Delta (RTD) announced a media availability with Executive Director Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, August 5, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Peripheral Tunnels Economic Impacts Inflated: Gov. Brown Refuses to Conduct Benefit-Cost Analysis; Cost Estimate has Tripled, Public Will Pay “No new water” for $54 billion Sacramento, CA – Restore the Delta (RTD), opponents of Gov....Read More
Media Advisory for Monday, August 5, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Experts to Respond to Brown Administration on Economic Impact of Peripheral Tunnels: Who will benefit? Who will pay? What will it cost? Restore the Delta will respond to the Brown Administration’s release of partial information...Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, August 2, 2013 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla 209/479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta In case you missed it… Sign battle along Delta highway intensifies By Melissa Murphy Published 08/02/2013 After removing signs opposing a plan to build tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, it seems...Read More
We have a situation going on in California right now that will tell us whether the State Water Resources Control Board can manage the state’s water resources for the benefit of the whole state rather than for the benefit of south San Joaquin Valley agriculture worth less than one-half of one percent of the state’s...Read More
Then, earlier this month, the State Water Resources Control Board sent a notice to Diverters of Surface Water alerting them to lower-than-average storage levels in reservoirs resulting from two years of record dry and warm conditions. “For 2013,” they note, “the combined total precipitation for the months of January through May is the driest in...Read More
No. Despite the suggestion that water is being reserved for releases to meet Delta water quality standards, water project operators have asked the Water Board to change this year’s classification from dry to critical because they expect to violate Delta outflow and salinity standards. The Water Board justified this violation of standards by arguing...Read More
No. The effect of reduced water quality and flows on salmon could be dire in a year when a record number of salmon are expected to return to spawn. “We’re only in a second dry year, not even a declared drought, and the system is fundamentally broken,” according to Bill Jennings of CSPA. “The State...Read More
One of the many gargantuan problems with the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) is that it makes poorly-supported assumptions about available Sacramento River flows. As the Bureau of Reclamation said in its comments on the BDCP’s environmental impact statement (EIS), “The current BDCP analysis assumes no operation impacts to upstream reservoir operations.” But Sacramento River...Read More
