Category: Breaking News

DWR Director Karla Nemeth verbally commits to bring back future SWP contract amendments related to the tunnels project back to the legislature for further review From Restore the Delta and Food and Water Watch: Today the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) held an informational hearing to discuss the State Water Project (SWP) contract extensions. JLBC Chair Senator Holly Mitchell (D-30, […]

Tomorrow at 10am, the Joint Legislative Budget Committee is scheduled to hold an informational hearing on the State Water Project contract extension.  The hearing has been scheduled twice – and postponed twice – as a result of Restore the Delta’s intense social media campaign and their ability to organize their constituents to get on the phone and call their legislators.  […]

The bill would create an Administrative Hearings Office within the SWRCB From the Byron Bethany Irrigation District: In a decisive vote, lawmakers acted late Friday to pass Assembly Bill 747, water rights legislation introduced by Assemblymember Anna Caballero (D-Salinas). The bill crafted by Byron-Bethany Irrigation District (BBID) takes steps to restore Constitutional due process and fundamental fairness currently lacking for […]

From the Sacramento Bee: “An effort to impose a “voluntary” water tax on residents to pay for safe drinking water projects died in the Legislature on Friday. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon called the legislation and other one-time monetary allocations to water projects “a piecemeal funding approach” that “won’t work.” “The Assembly is committed to identifying a sustainable funding source to […]

Received from Restore the Delta late last night: “Restore the Delta has received confirmation from reputable sources that the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) hearing for the State Water Project contract extension has been postponed again, after members of the public, NGO’s, the Mercury News Editorial Board, and the Los Angeles Daily News put pressure on key legislators and the Brown Administration […]

The Delta Stewardship Council reports that nine appeals have been filed for the Department of Water Resources’ (DWR) July 27, 2018 certification of consistency with the Delta Plan for its California WaterFix project. The Delta Reform Act requires that any state or local agency doing a project in the Delta that meet the definition of a ‘covered action’ certify that […]