On September 19, in morning remarks (read here) to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar tied Delta conveyance to the Administration’s jobs plan (which is of course also tied to the 2012 presidential election). “In Washington, Congress needs to pass the American Jobs Act and put people back to work right...Read More
While Salazar was speaking in San Francisco to a select group of people who could afford the time to be there, the Delta Stewardship Council (DSC) was holding a workshop in Sacramento on the Economic Sustainability Plan & Delta as an Evolving Place. The DSC is holding workshops on different Delta topics, presumably to allow...Read More
The DSC expressed an interest in hearing what it could do to in the next five years about agriculture, recreation, natural resources, risk reduction, and anything else anyone wanted to mention. Those speaking on behalf of the Delta included Melinda Terry of the North Delta Water Agency; Pete Kutras representing the Delta Counties Coalition; Katie...Read More
A representative of the State Water Contractors suggested growing tules to recreate peat on some Delta islands and getting credit for carbon sequestration. It was noted that tules aren’t an ag commodity and that there is still no market for carbon sequestration. But DWR could try it on their land. The water contractors see a...Read More
For Immediate Release Contact: Jane Wagner-Tyack Phone: (209) 642-5105 Restore the Delta 10100 Trinity Pkwy, Suite 120 Stockton, CA 95219 Email: janetyack@mac.com Interior Secretary Salazar Badly Mistaken About the Situation in the Delta Interior Secretary Ken Salazar used remarks delivered at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on September 19 to link building ill-conceived...Read More
In March 2009, the state and federal governments and the water contractors entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on planning, preliminary design, and environmental compliance for the habitat conservation plan and conveyance program we know as the BDCP (Bay Delta Conservation Plan). That MOU has just been amended. Highlights: They plan to have a...Read More
Last week, Dan Bacher reported that a mind-boggling 11 million fish have been “salvaged” at the export pumps since January 1. “Salvaged” pretty much means “killed,” since the majority of many species perish during and after the salvage process, including handling and trucking operations. The losses include close to 9 million Sacramento splittail, the largest...Read More
CSPA, Friends of the River, North Coast River Alliance, Save the American River and the Winnemen Wintu Tribes have filed a lawsuit against Westlands Water District (and its two water distribution districts) and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, as a Real Party in Interest, over the renewal of six interim Central Valley Project (CVP) water...Read More
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be addressing the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Monday, September 19 at 9 a.m. The subject is “A Morning on the Water”: California reservoirs are at healthy levels this year but the state’s water system remains in crisis. Projected changes in the sierra snowpack and precipitation patterns...Read More
On September 6, 2006, Restore the Delta got started as an arm of the Friends of the River campaign, with Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla as Restore the Delta’s campaign director. In November of 2010, we incorporated as a separate non-profit organization. Restore the Delta has grown enormously, and we’ve all learned a lot in the past five...Read More
