Bay-delta
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Today we celebrate #WorldWildlifeDay and the Bay-Delta estuary
as a biodiversity hub that deserves to be protected.
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What we need is a Bay-Delta Plan
It's time for Gavin Newsom to shift gears away from the Delta tunnel and voluntary agreements once and for all.
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Bay-Delta Plan Hearings (Registration Deadline Extended!)
While we wait for implementation of Phase I (San Joaquin River flows) which was approved December 2018 and delayed due to the “voluntary agreements” process, the Delta has suffered for decades without updated water quality and flow standards that protect communities, culture, fisheries, recreation, and agriculture.
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Bay-Delta Plan Hearing date is coming up this Friday
Take action NOW and sign up to comment at the Bay-Delta Plan Hearings
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Take action NOW and sign up to comment at the Bay-Delta Plan Hearings
Support of Sacramento/Delta Updates
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Voluntary Agreements and updates for the Bay-Delta Plan regarding the Delta!
Phase II Bay-Delta Plan Update, poses harmful outcomes for the Delta
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ICYMI 10/1/23: Competing Bay-Delta rescue plans released
California wants to restore its rivers and San Francisco Bay to health. Here is its controversial plan
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Striped bass became the “canary in the coal mine” since the Bay-Delta water
The decline of striped bass is generally associated with the startup of the State Water Project in the mid 1970s in concert with the 1976-77 drought along with an ever-increasing frequency of drought.
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The health of the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary and Delta communities
In 2022, Restore the Delta not only trained a new generation of advocates, but we enabled them to represent themselves in essential government processes with great accuracy and factual detail.
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2021 Bay-Delta Science Conference
As modern day California was developed, the Central Valley’s waterways were re-engineered and channelized to control the floods and divert water for human uses.
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The Dam Problem for the Bay-Delta Estuary
The dams that are built in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Watershed protect thousands of people and billions of dollar’s worth of agriculture but they are far too old and far too many of them need repair
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50 plus groups united to demand stronger Bay-Delta flow standards
On July 26, a coalition of organizations from fishing, environmental, tribal, Delta, and business communities submitted a letter to the State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) demanding stronger flow standards in its update of the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan—a document that sets regulatory standards for water quality and flow criteria in Central Valley Rivers and the San Francisco Bay Estuary, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
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Federal bill will eradicate striped bass, other non-native fish in Bay-Delta
Federal bill S. 1894, introduced by Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, would mandate the eradication of all non-native fish, including striped bass, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, catfish and other species, from the Bay-Delta Estuary, while failing to deal with the fundamental problems that have been so destructive to the estuary and our native fishes.
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