Gil Cosio didn’t mince words in commenting on the erroneous information that went into the new PPIC report, saying that the PPIC didn’t gather all the data that they should have because of time constraints. “Garbage in, garbage out,” he said. “Lund’s data is just not right.” Last week PPIC author Jay Lund wrote a...Read More
Last week Dr. Jerry Meral, Governor Brown’s new deputy secretary for the BDCP, delivered an address in Los Angeles to the California Water Policy Conference (a project of POWER – Public Officials for Water and Environmental Reform). If you’d like to know what Dr. Meral has to say about the BDCP, you can read his...Read More
When the Metropolitan Water District hosted a 20-person lunch in San Francisco celebrating passage of the 2009 water package, the district picked up a tab for $1,861.50, including four bottles of wine at about $55 each. Jeffrey Kightlinger, MWD’s general manager, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that “it was important to mark the achievement with...Read More
When Governor Schwarzenegger showed the Delta to visiting journalists from outside California, he did it from a helicopter flying over the region. Even then, though, he was closer than most of the academics who are continuing to pad their professional resumes by writing about the Delta for the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). They...Read More
Thank you to the hundreds of Restore the Delta supporters who attended our Art, Wine, and Edible Delight event this past Saturday. Michael Prietti and Pat Livingston’s photography, the Americana music of Mom’s Chili Boys, the fabulous Delta wines from Heringer, Carvalho, and Solomon Wineries, and the great spread from Husick’s Catering, the Monterey Fish...Read More
Dr Robert Pyke has a wealth of geotechnical and water resources engineering experience from all over the world, including the Delta, and he has some sensible suggestions for addressing our water management problems. Among them 1. Restoration of floodplains on the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries, which provides three significant benefits: stretching...Read More
The Delta Stewardship Council released this week its first draft of the Delta Plan. We appreciate that the Council is making the drafting process available to public comment. It is our understanding that there will be six more drafts leading to the completion of a final plan in December of this year. With that said,...Read More
We were puzzled by some statements in the press release from Congressman Devin Nunes’ office announcing proposed funding cuts affecting the biological opinions and San Joaquin River Restoration. The press release calls these cuts the first step “to replace the flawed billion dollar salmon run…” In place of the existing restoration plan, Nunes and House...Read More
Dear Friends, On Friday, the U.S. House of Representative passed the 2011 Continuing Resolution, a must pass spending bill, to keep the Federal Government funded. Language included in this base bill, however, would defund the implementation of biological decisions made for reduced Delta pumping, thereby allowing record level of water exports from the Delta to...Read More
The Delta Stewardship Council held its January meeting on the 27th and the 28th, before comments from two weeks of January scoping meetings could be compiled, condensed and processed for consumption. They have a Delta Plan to complete by January 2012. On the first day of the DSC meeting, Independent Science Board Lead Scientist Cliff...Read More
