REMINDER: Watch the hearing live today at this link, starting 9:15-9:00 a.m. For Immediate Release: Thursday, December 8, 2016 Contact: Brian Smith, 415-320-9384, brian@bpspr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053 barbara@restorethedelta.org   Restore the Delta Presents Case Against Delta Tunnels Permit to State Water Board   Sacramento – This morning, Restore the Delta (with legal support from Earthjustice)...Read More

For Immediate Release: 12/2/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, (209) 479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   DELTA TUNNELS Plan B Presented by Public Policy Institute of California   Stockton – This week a coalition of conservation and public interest organizations sent a letter to Obama administration officials calling for the termination of the proposed Delta Tunnels.  ...Read More

For Immediate Release: November 29, 2016 Contact: Robert Wright, Friends of the River, 916-442-3155 x207 bwright@friendsoftheriver.org Brian Smith, 415-320-9384, brian@bpspr.com   Obama Administration Asked to Kill Delta Tunnels Plan Financial and environmental “nightmare” would become his legacy   Sacramento, CA – On Monday, a coalition of California fishing, conservation, and public interest groups sent a...Read More

Excerpt: The tunnels represent a failure of imagination. The project looks backward, to an era when hard technology was installed across the state to transport water hundreds of miles, regardless of construction and energy costs and environmental impacts.Read More

For Immediate Release: 11/16/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   San Diego Water Leader Questions Delta Tunnels Backers Why ignore region’s water sustainability projects?   Stockton, CA – Yesterday, San Diego County Water Authority’s General Manager, Maureen Stapleton, sent a letter to CA Natural Resources Secretary John Laird asserting that Dr. David Sunding’s economic analysis...Read More

For Immediate Release: Monday, 11/14/16 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   Governor Brown and President-Elect Trump Don’t undermine environmental laws to push Delta Tunnels   Stockton, CA – On November 10, Governor Jerry Brown offered his commitment to find “common ground wherever possible” with the incoming Trump Administration, but to oppose the new administration regarding...Read More

For Immediate Release: Friday, November 11, 2016 Contact: Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   Delta Islands Purchase Violated MWD’s Own Administrative Code No appraisal before land purchase   Stockton, CA — At the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s Real Property and Asset Management Committee Meeting of November 8, 2016, Metropolitan Water District...Read More

In case you missed it! The Record: Trump hasn’t said much about California water, but he did tell a Fresno audience at a rally in May that there is no drought at all, and that the water that farmers should have received was flushed out to sea in an effort to protect “a certain kind...Read More

For Immediate Release: November 9, 2016 Contact: Brian Smith, 415,320-9384, brian@bpspr.com Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, 209-479-2053, barbara@restorethedelta.org   Restore the Delta on Prop. 53 Defeat does not approve the Delta Tunnels   Stockton – Prop. 53 was never a Delta Tunnels-only proposition. It was a proposition focused on revenue bond debt for large state projects, including High...Read More

In case you missed it!  KCET  COMMENTARY: Delta Tunnel Planners Should Learn From Seattle's Expensive Goof By Conner Everts November 2, 2016 Original source from KCET Commentary with images and maps.  Commentary: Engineers will converge in Los Angeles from November 6-9, during the election, for the Cutting Edge 2016: Advances in Tunneling Technology conference. California, it seems, is a...Read More