The Governor is calling for an expensive engineering project that would perpetuate and worsen our current system's decline. Others have developed plans that take a new approach to water management and Delta restoration that features
BEC, as a member of the Environmental Water Caucus (EWC) supports The Responsible Exports Plan Alternative by the Environmental Water Caucus (view or download)
The Butte County Board of Supervisors came out in August against the preferred Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) option. Read this one-page Resolution to find out why.
BEC is working with the media branch of Californians for Fair Water Policy on media outreach strategies on this issue. Visit their website for details.
Here are resources and links to help you become more familiar with the issues and take action.
Official Bay Delta Conservation Plan Website
Restore the Delta Website and Fact Sheets
BDCP Fact Sheet and Contact information of representatives and water representatives
Short Video produced by Restore the Delta
Take Action:
1) Show the film ‘Over Troubled Waters’ to friends and organizations. Available at the BEC office and the Butte County, Chico Library. Contact us to borrow our copy.
2) Write letters to the editor in response to stories and editorials (list is below, check individual websites for format and details)
3) Understand your own water use and take steps to conserve
4) Write letters and call your representatives (key contacts are below)
The Bay Delta Conservation Plan is currently accepting public comments on the draft EIR/EIS. Comments are due April 14th, 2014.
Either mail to:
BDCP Comments
Ryan Wulff, NMFS
650 Capitol Mall, Suite 5-100
Sacramento, CA 95814
or E-mail: BDCP.Comments@noaa.gov
If you don't have time to read thousands of pages of the EIR/EIS but are concerned about the local and statewide impacts of rerouting the Sacramento River around the delta, write to your representatives (listed below). Also stop by the BEC office for a postcard to the governor and a bumper sticker for your bike or car.
5) Send us a self-addressed stamped envelope to 116 W. 2nd St., Chico 95928, for our local take on the "Save the Delta" bumpersticker:
Tips when letter writing
*Address the issue that resonates with you, stick with the facts, be respectful, send a copy to everyone on the list, and ask for a response.
Jerry Brown
Governor of California
(916) 445-2841
State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814
Mark Cowin
Department of Water Resources, Director
mark.cowin@water.ca.gov
California DWR
P.O. Box 942836, Room 1115-1, Sacramento, CA 94236-0001
Butte County Supervisors
kasweeney@butte.county.net
(530) 538-7643
25 County Center Drive, Oroville, CA 95965
Doug LaMalfa
California Congressman, 1st District
(530) 534-7100
1453 Downer St. Suite A, Oroville, CA 95965
Dan Logue
California State Assemblyman, 3rd District
(530) 895-4217
150 Amber Grove Dr., Suite #154, Chico, CA 95973
Jim Nielsen
California State Senator, 4th District
(530) 879-7424
2635 Forest Ave., Suite 110, Chico, CA 95928
Leigh McDaniel
Glenn County Supervisor and
Northern California Water Association
lmcdaniel@countyofglenn.net
(530) 934-6400
525 West Sycamore Street, Suite B1 Willows, CA 95988
Barack Obama
President of the United States
(202) 456-1111
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500
Barbara Boxer
California State Senator
(916) 448-2787
501 I Street, Suite 7-600
Sacramento, CA 95814
Diane Feinstein
United States Senator
(415) 393-0707
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
Local Newspapers: *Chico News and Review * The Enterprise Record * The Record Searchlight
*The Red Bluff Daily News *The Sacramento Bee *The Paradise Post *Oroville Mercury Register