• Brown’s Bay Delta Conservation Plan Lacks Answers

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/15/18754188.php by Dan Bacher Tuesday Apr 15th, 2014 3:04 PM Bill Jennings, executive director, California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA), said, “If they cannot explain in the implementation agreement how the 40,000 pages of fantasy in the BDCP and the EIR are going to be implemented or financed, then how can the public be expected to…

  • California water plan unveils hardships to come as drought persists

    http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/09/6311226/california-water-plan-unveils.html By Matt Weiser Published: Wednesday, Apr. 9, 2014 – 6:40 pm Last Modified: Monday, Apr. 14, 2014 – 9:57 am As California’s drought stretches toward the hot summer months, state and federal officials are planning extraordinary measures to protect drinking water supplies and endangered Sacramento River salmon, according to a plan unveiled Wednesday. The…

  • Complaint alleges American River flows too slow, warm in Sacramento area

    http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/08/6307325/complaint-alleges-american-river.html By Matt Weiser Published: Tuesday, Apr. 8, 2014 – 11:00 pm The federal government’s operation of Folsom and Nimbus dams is harming fall-run Chinook salmon and steelhead in the American River, several environmental and fishing groups allege in a complaint filed this week with the state. The groups are urging the State Water Resources…

  • Accusation: Delta tunnels would force thousands to relocate

    http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/001/?ID=25585 STOCKTON April 7, 2014 11:53am Impact worst on Byron, Discovery Bay “Air quality bad enough in Byron to require people to move in order to avoid an increased cancer risk” (Note: Click on the link at the end of the text story to listen to a news conference at which these and other allegations…

  • Bay Delta Conservation Plan Forces Byron Relocation

    https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/07/18753719.php by Dan Bacher Monday Apr 7th, 2014 12:56 PM The Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) to build the peripheral tunnels is bad for Delta residents, farmers and farmworkers, Indian Tribes, fish, fishermen and the majority of Californians. It is only good for corporate agribusiness interests, oil companies, Southern California water privateers and the 1…