Comments on 6-Year Transfer Program
Latest AquAlliance Comments on the Long-Term Water Transfers (6-Year Transfer Program) – click here to view Comments document
Litigation
Watchdogs Sue Metropolitan Water District Over Delta Tunnel Financing
From Mavens Notebook, Sept. 10, 2018: Food & Water Watch and Center for Food Safety served a lawsuit today to challenge the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s approval of $11 billion to fund the twin Delta Tunnels. The groups … Continue reading
How you can stop Sacramento from raising your water rates and property taxes
By Susan Shelley | Los Angeles Daily News Published August 29, 2018 at 11:26 am On Thursday, August 30, at 8:00 a.m., an obscure committee in Sacramento will hold an informational hearing that will commit you, your children and your grandchildren to … Continue reading
Pay Up, Shut Up
From California Water Impact Network — Click here to view full article and links to other stories and documents. Brown Administration Plan Would Force Homeowners to Pay for Unneeded Water Project As the old adage has it, “You pays your money … Continue reading
Marching on: Nonprofit notches another win in long battle to protect North State water
By Evan Tuchinsky March 8, 2018 Eight years ago, Barbara Vlamis launched AquAlliance, a Chico-based nonprofit that, according to its website, “formed to challenge threats to the hydrologic health of the northern Sacramento River watershed.” Vlamis, who’d spent the previous 17 … Continue reading
Significant Legal Win for North State: 10-Year Water Transfer Program Failed Analysis and Disclosure
The federal district court in Fresno issued a strong order February 15, 2018 supporting many of the claims made by AquAlliance and co-plaintiff partners. The lawsuit was filed in May 2015 against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and San … Continue reading
Court Order Regarding AquAlliance 10-Year Water Transfer Lawsuit
REQUEST FOR SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEFING RE CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT: The Court has determined that it requires additional information from the parties on several issues related to the manner by which the FEIS/R defines certain baseline conditions against which Project impacts … Continue reading
Why is the state withholding asbestos records at Oroville Dam?
6.7.2017– By Ryan Sabalow In the latest skirmish over transparency at the troubled Oroville Dam, a Northern California activist group has sued state officials alleging they’re illegally withholding information about potentially toxic asbestos. AquAlliance, a Chico-based advocacy group focused on … Continue reading
Lawsuit Filed Against DWR over Oroville Dam Records
Chico, CA. – AquAlliance filed a lawsuit in state court on June 6, 2017 against the California Department of Water Resources (“DWR”) over its failure to release records related to the Oroville Dam main and emergency spillways crisis that started … Continue reading
Lawsuit Produces Desired Outcome
AquAlliance sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation again over their inadequate environmental review of the Bureau’s ‘temporary,’ North-to-South water transfers that take place year-after-year. While we lost the injunction that sought to halt the transfers,* AquAlliance and our litigation partner, … Continue reading