At last week’s California Water Commission meeting, Jerry Meral gave a rosy update on BDCP, including how it will be financed. (Handouts from BDCP and BDCP EIR on finance here) Interestingly, Meral claimed that the BDCP could still go forward without the Water Bond even though the draft Implementation Costs and Funding Sources chapter of...Read More
Governor Brown’s administration has proposed a government reorganization that would include making the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) part of the Department of Water Resources (DWR) rather than an independent entity. This week the Little Hoover Commission (an independent state oversight agency that investigates government operations) considered the reorganization plan and heard testimony on its effect...Read More
H.R. 1837 may reappear in an omnibus energy/land use bill being introduced by Senator Orin Hatch (R-Utah). The omnibus bill will include several bills that have passed the House over the last year but have stalled in the Senate due to Democratic opposition. Also in Washington D.C., the Senate appropriations committee is set to approve...Read More
Alameda County Flood Control & Water Conservation District Zone 7 Association of California Water Agencies Calleguas Municipal Water District California Chamber of Commerce Castaic Lake Water Agency Coachella Valley Water District Desert Water Agency East Valley Water District Eastern Municipal Water District Friant Water Authority Inland Empire Utilities Agency Irvine Ranch Water District Kern County...Read More
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; 209/479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Sacramento, CA – Consumer and environmental advocates today succeeded in winning Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Comm. approval for an independent cost-benefit analysis before committing the public to pay tens of billions of dollars to...Read More
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft (916) 457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; (209) 479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Sacramento, CA – Consumer and environmental advocates today called for an independent cost-benefit analysis before committing the public to pay tens of billions of dollars to build a Peripheral Canal or Tunnel to...Read More
Media Advisory for: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Contact: Steve Hopcraft (916) 457-5546 steve@hopcraft.com; Twitter: @shopcraft; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla barbara@restorethedelta.org; (209) 479-2053; Twitter: @RestoretheDelta Consumer, Environmental Advocates to Call for Cost-Benefit Analysis of Peripheral Canal/Tunnel: How Much Would Water Rates Rise? Who Benefits? Three Delta-related bills will be heard at the beginning of the Assembly Water, Parks...Read More
Dear Friends, Tuesday morning at the Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Hearing, this committee will decide if AB 2421 (Berryhill), a costs benefit analysis for the peripheral canal, will move forward throughout the legislative process. The water export users listed below say that a cost benefit analysis of the proposed project would actually interfere with...Read More
Excerpts from Switchboard: Natural Resources Defense Council Staff Blog Tina Swanson’s Blog California’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan Has No Clothes Posted April 17, 2012 “The result of this five-year, $140 million effort is a [BDCP] draft plan that, according to its own ‘effects analysis,’ would make the existing situation worse by further degrading estuarine habitat, harming...Read More
Delta Levee Standards Conference Scholarships Available! The Delta Protection Commission and the Water Education Foundation are sponsoring a Delta Levee Standards Conference on May 2. The agenda has pairs of experts speaking on Delta levee standards and on the relationship of Delta levees to conveyance, habitat, and public safety. Each pair of speakers will be...Read More
