DWR has been holding Contract Extension Negotiation Sessions with the State Water Project Contractors. Meeting summaries are posted for May 1 and May 15, but by May 29 things seem to have been breaking down. Now the session scheduled for June 12 has been cancelled. Another is tentatively scheduled for June 26. DWR and the...Read More
As we’ve seen lately with collapsing bridges, it’s one thing to build “visionary” infrastructure. It’s another thing to operate and maintain it for all the decades of its planned life. Compromised SWP operations could be a really BIG elephant in a room already full of pachyderms. In January of 2011, the California Water Commission (CWC)...Read More
While researching the January 2011 CWC meeting, we turned up this juicy tidbit from Jerry Meral, who never misses a chance to tell a listener what the listener wants to hear. (This can make it hard to know what Meral himself actually thinks.) During a presentation that day on the BDCP, then-commissioner Dave Cogdill asked...Read More
By contrast, we ALWAYS know what Jason Peltier of Westlands Water District really thinks. Here’s a link to a YouTube clip of him telling Senator Fran Pavley. And here is Westlands doing something we approve of: proposing to generate power with solar facilities on San Joaquin Valley land that has salty soil and poor drainage. ...Read More
Melinda Terry of the North Delta Water Agency, our source for the arresting numbers on pile driving and tunnel muck in our recent newsletter, reports that she had the wrong number for consecutive days of pile driving. If there are about 1,000 piles total to be installed according to Appendix 3C in the BDCP Plan...Read More
In case you missed it… Valley Economy New BDCP Economic Studies Use Outdated Growth Forecasts to Project an Artificial Water Shortage By Dr. Jeffrey Michael Originally Published Tuesday, June 4, 2013 There are so many problems in the cost and economic reports released last week by the BDCP, it is hard to know where to...Read More
In case you missed it… Bloomberg Who Will Pay for Jerry Brown’s Father Complex? By Steven Greenhut – Originally Published Jun 4, 2013 It’s full speed ahead for mammoth infrastructure projects in California — especially the ones designed to build a legacy for Governor Jerry Brown. Officials last week released the final chapters of...Read More
Gov. Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) Cost $54.1 Billion: Simple Math – It’s Not Worth it. Sacramento, CA – Restore the Delta, opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown’s rush to build Peripheral Tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom salmon and other Pacific fisheries today released its “Simple Math” total of costs. “The Brown...Read More
In case you missed it… The Sacramento Bee Viewpoints: Brown tries to roll Delta in rush to dig tunnels By Stephen Heringer Special to The Bee Originally Published Wednesday, May. 29, 2013 I am the fifth of six generations of the Heringer family to farm the soils of the Clarksburg Delta. At the turn of...Read More
Articles of Interest Related to Restore the Delta’s Media Work… Delta tunnels: Firmer cost estimates spelled out for Gov. Jerry Brown’s water plan By Paul Burgarino and Steven Harmon Staff writers San Jose Mercury News Posted: MercuryNews.com MILPITAS — The cost of Gov. Jerry Brown’s controversial plan to build two massive tunnels to move water...Read More
