By Matt Weiser Published: Friday, May. 24, 2013 The Delta Protection Commission, a state agency, voted Thursday to oppose Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to build two giant water diversion tunnels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, saying it is not supportive of agriculture, … Continue reading
Redding Record Searchlight, May 12, 2013: Looking strictly at this summer, a proposal to sell a few thousand acre-feet of Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District water to parched farms in Central California, making up the shortage by tapping wells, will do trivial … Continue reading
The federal environmental review for Central Valley Project contractors’ water sales has been released. All of the sales include selling Sacramento River water and substituting ground water to continue growing crops in the Sacramento Valley — ground water that growers … Continue reading
By Heather Hacking, Staff Writer, Chico Enterprise-Record, April 18, 2013: Butte Water District, with headquarters in Gridley, is negotiating to move 5,350 acre-feet of water through groundwater substitution. This means transferring surface water and using groundwater instead. Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, … Continue reading
See AquAlliance response to this article. by Matt Weiser (mweise@sacbee.com) Published Sunday, March 24, 2013 It may be the most ambitious habitat restoration project ever conceived in the United States. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan proposes to restore one of … Continue reading
Click to view article by Matt Weiser, March 24, 2013 We previously circulated the March 17 Sacramento Bee editorial (“Scope and impact of Delta twin tunnels is starting to hit home“) and wanted you to see the March 24 article … Continue reading
Click to see editorial by Stuart Leavenworth, March 17, 2013: California and the federal government created a quagmire of unrealistic water expectations and resulting environmental disasters over many decades. The ensuing biological collapse of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta* during the … Continue reading
The recent discovery that two important Butte County water-monitoring wells have gone dry has increased concerns about proposed longterm pumping of Northstate water to Southern California. Located in the Neal Road area, the wells measure local water quality by pumping … Continue reading
Chico Grange & AquAlliance invite you to join us on: Saturday, February 23, 2013 — 7 p.m. to midnight Chico Grange, 2775 Nord Avenue, Chico Music by Three Fingers Whiskey Contact: Chico Grange 891-6965 — Rob or Susan — or … Continue reading
August 2011: AquAlliance, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance and the California Water Impact Network sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) in 2010 to protect the economy and the environment of the northern Sacramento Valley. The plaintiffs prevailed in August 2011 because … Continue reading
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