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  • State Water Board grants deadline extension for Delta Tunnels hearing objections

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/13/1538094/-State-Water-Board-grants-extension-on-deadline-to-objections-for-Delta-Tunnels-hearing By Dan Bacher Monday Jun 13, 2016 · 9:09 AM PDT The State Water Resources Board on Friday, June 10, granted  a 27-day extension of the deadline requested by multiple parties for objections to documents submitted by the state and federal governments to make their case for Governor Jerry Brown’s Delta Tunnels Plan, now called the…

  • Conservation groups ask for more time to file objections to Delta Tunnels plan

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/7/1535572/-Conservation-groups-ask-for-more-time-to-file-objections-to-Delta-Tunnels-plan By Dan Bacher Tuesday Jun 07, 2016 · 11:11 AM PDT Following the submission of documents by the state and federal governments pleading their case for the Delta Tunnels plan, environmental and fishing groups and San Joaquin County asked the State Water Resources Control Board for more time for them to file their objections…

  • Take Action: Senator Feinstein’s Drought Legislation Threatens Delta Fisheries!

    http://fishsniffer.com/index.php/2016/06/03/1967/ by Dan Bacher June 3, 2016 Below is an urgent action alert and press release from John Beuttler and Dr. David Ostrach of the Allied Fishing Groups. I urge you to contact Senator Feinstein’s office to stop her drought legislation from destroying our Delta fisheries: The situation is critical. Should the bill pass as…

  • Northern California’s Farmers Want to Drop the Bass

    http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/northern-californias-farmers-want-drop-bass by Alastair Bland Published May 31, 2016 The largest estuary on the United States’ west coast isn’t safe for baby salmon. Chinook salmon once thrived in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers in Northern California, with spawning runs that nearly clogged the rivers. But over the past four decades, the waterways have changed. Today,…

  • Bill requiring public vote on Delta Tunnels stalls in committee

    http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/30/1532578/-Bill-requiring-public-vote-on-Delta-Tunnels-stalls-in-committee By Dan Bacher Monday May 30, 2016 · 1:40 PM PDT A bill to force a public vote on Governor Jerry Brown’s controversial plan to divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta through two massive underground tunnels stalled in committee on Friday, May 27. AB 1713, sponsored by Assemblymember Susan Talamantes Eggman, D-Stockton,…