A Riverside County supervisor will be asking leaders in 13 counties to discuss seceding from California. The proposal, by Supervisor Jeff Stone, is for Riverside, Imperial, San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino, Kings, Kern, Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Madera, Mariposa and Mono counties to form a 51st state, the State of South California. The impetus for this...Read More
“The water war’s black ops” -Michael Fitzgerald’s Blog “Delta group claims government is planning financing of a peripheral canal” -Central Valley Business Times “California’s peripheral canal: Government officials holding closed meetings on funding” -First Amendment Coalition picks up on RTD’s “secret PC meeting” expose, by Donal Brown “Exposed! Closed-door meetings on California’s peripheral canal “...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 Water Exporters, the Department of Water Resources, and the Bureau of Reclamation Participate in Closed-Door Meetings to Plan Financing for Construction of the Peripheral Canal Stockton, California — Restore the Delta has learned that...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 In-Delta Groups Express Opposition to HR 1837 (Nunes) Stockton, California — Today, Restore the Delta, along with sixteen other Delta community/political leaders, sent the following letter to Congressman Tom McClintock, Chair of the House Sub...Read More
Are you receiving constant notices from the Department of Water Resources to access your land? Do you find DWR’s requests and statements to enter your property confusing, threatening, or vague? Are you concerned about preserving your private property rights in the midst of all these Delta planning processes? Restore the Delta is hosting an Eminent...Read More
If you read the various PPIC reports and the DRMS Phase One report and wondered what unrecognizable place they described, you will be happy to see the Delta Protection Commission’s “Economic Sustainability Plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta,” just released in a first administrative draft. Portions of the “Economic Sustainability Plan” are still under development. ...Read More
We reported recently on a new study by California Water Research Associates showing that 100,000 acres of land retired by Westlands Water District is not going to come back into irrigated production, no matter HOW much water Westlands gets. New evidence of this is contained in the district’s agricultural lease. Westlands owns essentially all of...Read More
The California Water Commission (CWC) met on June 15, 2011 at exactly the same time as the BDCP was having its first public meeting since Jerry Meral introduced his divide-and-conquer working group strategy. “Due to state budget constraints,” the CWC meeting was not webcast live, and 36 hours later, video of the meeting was still...Read More
At the June 15th meeting, the Commission dispensed with the first six agenda items in just about as many minutes, then proceeded to a prolonged parsing of language for Agricultural Water Measurement Regulations. They were still at it when they took a break at 3:30 and RTD staff fled for daylight. Here’s what we can...Read More
When we talk about beneficiary pays, just which beneficiaries are we talking about? DWR staff came up with five main categories of public benefit plus a couple more and submitted them to the Commission, which must define public benefits of dams and conveyance under the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water Supply Act of 2010,...Read More
