Media Advisory for Monday, June 17, 2013
Contact: Steve Hopcraft 916/457-5546; steve@hopcraft.com Twitter: @shopcraft
Fishing, Environmental, Farming Advocates to Sue
to Halt Delta Plan, Water Export Tunnels
San Francisco, CA – A statewide group of fishing, environmental and farming groups will announce the filing of a lawsuit to stop the Delta Plan, which lays the groundwork for Delta water export tunnels.
“The Delta Reform Act gave the Delta Stewardship Council a historic opportunity to remedy 40 years of water policy failures. The council instead failed to use the best available science – biological or economic – and adopted a status quo program that fails to fix the Delta or the water supply problem,” said Santa Barbara resident Carolee Krieger, executive director of the California Water Impact Network (C-WIN), a statewide water advocacy organization. “The Council failed to honor its own mandate: the adoption of an effective strategy for the distribution of water and the preservation of the Delta.”
Who: Carolee Krieger, C-WIN; Bill Jennings, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance; Barbara Vlamis, AquAlliance; Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta; Michael Jackson, Attorney for several groups; Bob Wright, Attorney for Friends of the River; Adam Lazar, Center for Biological Diversity
When: Monday, June 17, 201310:30am,
Where: 404-920-6442; Conf. Code: 631349#