Save the California Delta Alliance (STCDA)

If the State’s PR put out “real” messaging it would read something like this:

INSTEAD, as Burt Wilson correctly points out in his blog “Oh no! Not Again!”, here’s the state’s PR piece about the Delta Tunnels:

Burt says, “Just when we thought that the California Water Fix” (aka BDCP Delta Tunnels plan) “had come up with the dumbest campaign ever, they have gone and topped themselves.” He goes on to say break down why their PR is so wrong:

“We know,” they say (as if they are the only ones who can figure out their own campaign) “that California’s aging (there’s that word again. I think they mean that it’s as old as the governor!) water distribution infrastructure makes (they put in a verb here as if the water infrastructure can act!) dry years in our state even worse.” Can you believe this? The static water infrastructure can act to make dry years even worse?

And do you wonder how our aging infrastructure can “strain” our water supply? Once more they throw words to the wind as if they were meaningless–which this campaign is, by the way.

Is this what their PR agency is actually being paid for? I wish they would tell us how our aging infrastructure makes our dry years even worse!”

Save the California Delta Alliance’s legal council, Michael Brodsky, submitted formal comments on the Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan, the Draft Environmental Impact Statement / Environmental Impact Report and the Draft Implementation Agreement.

To view the comments, click on the right-hand panel under “BDCP Formal Comments” or click here.

We thank Michael Brodsky for his tireless efforts in working to defeat the Peripheral Tunnels!


Legal Council Michael Brodsky speaking out at BDCP meeting in Sacramento

Tomorrow, July 29, is the last day to send in your BDCP “Stop the Tunnels” comments. See our Take Action page for sample comments.

General directions for making comments: You may type your comment in the body of the email or you may provide the comment as an attachment to the email.

Start with a personal note (so they know you are a real person, not a robot) and tell how this tunnel project will affect you.

If you send the comment as an attachment, save it as a pdf file and attach the pdf file.

Note: BDCP Transparency Concern and inability to verify if your comment was received – At the start of the comment period, the BDCP took down their page where comments were posted. This is a very unusual action and brings into strong question their commitment to transparency. This also means you cannot check to see if your comment was received. If you want, send a CC to our email at NoDeltaGates below and thus we will have a copy to verify comments were sent.

Email to:
BDCP.Comments@noaa.gov

Optional (if you want a copy for verification – this is not the official site.)
Send CC: BDCP.Comments.COPY@nodeltagates.com.

You may make several comments in one email or you can send several emails, each with one or two comments. You can send comments in – as many and as often as you like.

If you prefer regular mail,
Mail to:
BDCP Comments
Ryan Wulff, NMFS
650 Capitol Mall, Suite 5-100
Sacramento, CA 95814

Gene Beley comments on Dan Batcher’s article and thinks it doesn’t go far enough. He adds

“Not enough is written about the mismanagement of California water and how they practically gave away the Kern Water Bank. It is now in the hands of private individuals like Stewart and Linda Resnick, billionaires who live in the largest mansion in Beverly Hills. They have mega-wealthy partners in that enterprise like Silicon Valley real estate developer, John Vidovich, who sold some of his water several years ago for a cool $77 million. Another partner is the Tejon Ranch Corp., who needs water to build a new city in the desert. These people don’t like you to know their names and Resnicks are famous for not giving interviews. This fact, coupled with the reservoirs are mostly nearly full in Southern California, is part of this non-fiction story being written into California history. Some predict if the twin tunnels get built, we’ll eventually see a dry Sacramento River. BDCP’s reports do say it will lower it at least by three feet. That impact alone would have dire consequences throughout the Delta. As many try to warn, you can’t fix the Delta by taking away fresh water from it. ”

To see Gene’s entire comment, go to https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/05/05/18755355.php?show_comments=1#comments

Pyramid Lake, LA, at the height of the drought. April 2014. Nearly 100% full

June 13 is the end of BDCP EIR/EIS comment period. Dan Batcher in the Indy Bay Times today said “State officials are banking on the fact that the general public is too confused or not interested to voice any comment on this boondoggle until it’s too late. The public cannot sit quietly and watch this happen without at least voicing our concerns.”

Go to our Take Action tab which includes suggested comments and backup information from the Town Hall Meeting.

Email to:
BDCP.Comments@noaa.gov

Optional (if you want a copy for verification – this is not the official site.)
Send CC: BDCP.Comments.COPY@nodeltagates.com.

You may make several comments in one email or you can send several emails, each with one or two comments. You can send comments in – as many and as often as you like.

If you prefer regular mail,
Mail to:
BDCP Comments
Ryan Wulff, NMFS
650 Capitol Mall, Suite 5-100
Sacramento, CA 95814

Plus here’s a way to get even more information – a comment-writing party May 13th being offered by Restore the Delta. The event will run from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Reserve at Spanos Park, Mt. Diablo Room 6301 W. Eight Mile Rd. in Stockton. Refreshments will be provided. RSVP and letter writing information, language translators or childcare can be arranged: contact stina@restorethedelta.org or call (209) 475-9550. (RSVP is encouraged, but not required.) More info about it here.