CALL Governor Newsom today and all through the holiday break! It is clear from recent media stories that Westlands Water District is aggressively pushing the Newsom Administration to not litigate against the Bernhardt/Trump Water Plan that will significantly increase pumping from the San Francisco Bay-Delta. Westlands is threatening to walk away from the “voluntary agreements” to set...Read More
SACRAMENTO HEARINGThursday 12/12/19 on Draft Environmental Impact Report for Long-Term Operation of the SWPThe California Department of Water Resources will hold one public hearing to request comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for long-term operation of the California State Water Project onDecember 12, 2019, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.LOCATIONZiggurat Building AuditoriumDepartment of General Services707...Read More
Friends,It is wrong for the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board to allow 25 years of poisonous selenium discharge into the Delta. Here’s how you can help.Join us at December 5, 2019 at 10 am (note the new time) at the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board to take action! If you cannot attend, you can send a note to @Ashley.Peters@waterboards.ca.gov. In...Read More
Friends,It is time to protect our drinking water, to retire California’s poisoned lands and to put the water back in our rivers. Join our organizing partner Save California Salmon and Restore the Delta on December 5, 2019 at 9 am at the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board to take action!If you live in the Bay, the Delta,...Read More
Dear Restore the Delta Members, Governor Newsom has released a statement saying he will veto SB1. We need you to call him today, and repeatedly, until further notice. It is time to let him know that you expect him to do the right thing for the Delta, and California’s water future.As LA Times columnist George Skelton summarizes in today’s...Read More
SB1 Call Today – Keep at it through Friday! Restore the Delta has confirmed that the problematic language interfering with Delta levee repairs has been removed from SB1. A new version of the bill can be found here.Language in the bill around the biological opinions has been made even clearer for new science to be considered for...Read More
Dear Restore the Delta Members — Westlands Water District, Metropolitan Water District, and the State Water Contractors are working to stop SB1 in favor of new Federal water rules for operating California’s water system in a way that would gut endangered species protections and allow for more Delta pumping.Endangered species protections, in addition to protecting salmon, other fisheries,...Read More
August 22, 2019 Dear Friends, So much has changed for Restore the Delta this year. The twin tunnels are dead, yet we anticipate that a notice of intent will be filed with the Federal Government in December, with a full tunnel plan and environmental impact report to be released in 2021. Simultaneously, a number of issues...Read More
Dear Restore the Delta Members — As reported in the LA Times this morning, A report shows Trump’s water plan would hurt California salmon. The government hid it . The Trump Administration hid science findings so that it could put forth new water rules for operating California’s water system in a way that would allow for more Delta...Read More
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board sent out the following alert on Twitter Friday evening. Algal blooms are being observed in the Delta waterways of Stockton, Discovery Bay, and Big Break. These blooms are being monitored for cyanobacteria, of which there has been an increased presence found in water quality tests during the last two weeks at the...Read More
