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Restore the Delta Restore the Delta is a grassroots campaign committed to saving the San Francisco Bay-Delta estuary.
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🌿 Envisioning the future of Mormon Slough!Restore the Delta and the Mormon Slough Restoration Association have reached a...
10/19/2026

🌿 Envisioning the future of Mormon Slough!

Restore the Delta and the Mormon Slough Restoration Association have reached a new milestone with the release of three resources exploring the future of this historic Stockton waterway.

After decades of disinvestment and neglect, the project aims to transform Mormon Slough into a healthier, safer, and more vibrant greenway while reconnecting Stockton communities with their waterways.

🗺Project StoryMap: Produced by the San Francisco Estuary Institute / Aquatic Science Center, the StoryMap explores the slough’s history, ecology, and future potential through maps, photographs, and project information.

🖌Art Installation Guide: Created by HATCH Workshop, the guide details design opportunities, creative restoration approaches, and conceptual designs for two pilot sites near the Emergency Food Bank and Solari Ranch.

📈 Economic Cost Benefit Analysis: Led by economist Holly Michael, reveals that restoration could generate nearly $430 million in net benefits to communities, create hundreds of jobs, improve critical habitats, increase recreational opportunities, and strengthen flood protection.

Since 2023, the restoration team has worked alongside community members to develop restoration plans informed by local knowledge, community feedback, and collaboration with the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians.

Together, these resources explore Mormon Slough’s past and the possibilities for a more resilient and connected Stockton.

We'd like to thank everyone who has contributed their time, knowledge, and vision to this project, including Stockton residents, project partners, and North Valley THRIVE’s Catalyst Fund for supporting this important milestone. Collaboration has been vital in helping move the vision for Mormon Slough forward.

🔗 Explore the Project StoryMap and Art Installation Guide: https://bit.ly/3UcMpdV

To request the Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis and conceptual designs, contact Restore the Delta.

To request more information on the Art Installation guide, please contact [email protected].

10/15/2026

🌊You don’t have to be a water expert to speak up for the Delta

On August 19, 2026, the State Water Resources Control Board released a final update to the Bay-Delta Plan, a critical plan for protecting water quality, river flows, and ecosystems across California’s largest and most endangered estuary and watershed.

But the plan also includes Voluntary Agreements that favor powerful water agencies, provide exemptions from enforceable protections, disregard the best available science, and exclude Tribes and Delta communities.

The State Water Board will vote on whether to adopt the updated plan on October 28-29. This is a critical time to speak up for Tribes, environmental justice communities, and ecosystems that depend on the Delta.

🗣️ Want to use your voice? Sign up to give public comment and join our upcoming virtual speaker training next Wednesday, October 21, to learn how to prepare for the hearings.

🔗 Click to register for the training and sign up to speak up for the Delta: https://tinyurl.com/57sux2th

🌊 Our Delta Science Program wrapped up its summer monitoring in September, tracking harmful algal blooms (HABs), salinit...
10/14/2026

🌊 Our Delta Science Program wrapped up its summer monitoring in September, tracking harmful algal blooms (HABs), salinity, water temperatures, and, for the first time, E. coli levels.

Here are three key findings:

🌿 Limited HAB activity: We observed very little bloom activity this summer, with no significant concerns for those who recreate within the Delta.

🦪 Golden mussels: This year, the waterways were very clear, so much so that we could see to the bottom of water bodies, something we haven’t been able to do before. Golden mussels are known to be filter feeders that release nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen, which HABs thrive on. Just because water seems clear, that does not mean it’s clean. Our team plans to continue monitoring how golden mussels could impact HAB growth and the Delta as a whole.

🧪 E. coli concerns: Some sites, including Mormon Slough and American Legion Park on the Smith Canal, experienced elevated E. coli levels during the season. With continued monitoring, our team hopes to better understand what these water quality conditions mean and their impacts on Delta communities and ecosystems.

We are also thankful for this year’s cohort of Climate Water Advocates! With their support, we were able to test multiple sites throughout the Delta to ensure local water quality and safety.

🔗 Learn more about our findings this season: https://bit.ly/3VMuOtH

This Indigenous Peoples' Day and every day, we honor those who first called these lands their home.We continue to stand ...
10/12/2026

This Indigenous Peoples' Day and every day, we honor those who first called these lands their home.

We continue to stand alongside Indigenous communities while honoring their culture, history, wisdom, and contributions across the Bay-Delta region and beyond.

10/09/2026

🎉 Two weeks ago, we celebrated Restore the Delta’s 20th anniversary!

We are incredibly grateful for all of our friends, families, supporters, partners, and colleagues who joined us for a special evening to celebrate 20 years of service for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Our Restore the Delta team was in awe of the amount of love, support, and appreciation we received from every single person who came out to celebrate this milestone with us.

As new challenges and opportunities lie ahead, we hope to continue growing our community of support to protect the Delta for years to come.

Cheers to the next 20 years!

- Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla and the Restore the Delta team

🌊 Recent headlines continue to highlight Governor Newsom’s veto of SB 872, the Delta Levees and Canal Subsidence Fund.Th...
10/08/2026

🌊 Recent headlines continue to highlight Governor Newsom’s veto of SB 872, the Delta Levees and Canal Subsidence Fund.

The Governor’s recent veto message highlighted the more than $170 million already allocated to repairing levees, aqueducts, canals, and other infrastructure, but Restore the Delta’s Director of Policy and Programs, Morgen Snyder, says that “The funding in the budget, while incredible and much needed, is sort of a drop in the bucket compared to what overall repairs are needed.”

SB 872 would have directed $300 million annually toward safeguarding California’s primary water delivery system and reducing flood risks, including funding for Delta levees, canals, water delivery infrastructure, and critical land subsidence repairs to the State Water Project.

Although the bill received support from over 60 organizations and Northern and Southern California legislators, it ultimately did not receive the Governor’s signature.

🔗 Read the full coverage: https://tinyurl.com/59mahw7n

10/07/2026

🚨 Take Action and Oppose the Updated Bay-Delta Plan!

On August 19, 2026, the State Water Resources Control Board released a final update to the Bay-Delta Plan, a critical rulemaking for ensuring water quality, river flows, and ecosystem protections for the state’s largest and most endangered estuary and watershed.

But the final plan also includes the Voluntary Agreements, proposed agreements that favor powerful water agencies, provide exemptions from enforceable protections, ignore the best available science, and exclude Tribes and Delta Communities.

The State Water Board will soon vote on whether or not to adopt the final Bay-Delta Plan and Voluntary Agreements. This will be our last chance to oppose a plan that would devastate Tribes, environmental justice communities, and the Bay-Delta ecosystem.

🗣 Want to learn how to make a public comment? Join one of our VIRTUAL or IN-PERSON public comment training sessions to learn how to prepare for the hearings and make your voice heard.

🔗 Click to learn how you can take action and register for our public comment training sessions: https://tinyurl.com/57sux2th

: State Agencies Kept Bay-Delta Science ConfidentialIn a recent report for KCRA 3’s California Politics 360, Ashley Zav...
10/05/2026

: State Agencies Kept Bay-Delta Science Confidential

In a recent report for KCRA 3’s California Politics 360, Ashley Zavala found that California state agencies have been using a confidentiality agreement to keep some scientific communications related to the updated Bay-Delta Plan from public view, raising concerns about transparency ahead of the State Water Resources Control Board’s October 28-29 vote.

The confidentiality agreement between the State Water Resources Control Board, the California Department of Water Resources, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife kept communications, including information related to water quality, fish biology, and impacts on native fish and wildlife from public disclosure.

The agreement was discovered through a California Public Records Act request by San Francisco Baykeeper Managing Attorney Eric Buescher, who said, “It kept all of those communications between those agencies secret, which basically means it kept the science about water quality and fish biology and the impacts to native fish and wildlife that depend on them secret and out of the public's eyes.”

Restore the Delta’s Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla also raised concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding the science informing the plan, “If we don't have the basis of the science and the public can't see that, we can't have confidence in the decisions being made and the outcomes.”

With the vote soon approaching, the need for transparency around science at our State agencies is critical for public confidence and fair processes.

🔗 Read the full story https://tinyurl.com/3xxe25t5

: Governor Newsom Vetoes Key Water BillsNewsom’s final legislative session has ended with broken promises and sweeping ...
10/02/2026

: Governor Newsom Vetoes Key Water Bills

Newsom’s final legislative session has ended with broken promises and sweeping vetoes of critical legislation.

In response to the veto of AB 2218, Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians Vice Chair Malissa Tayaba responded directly to this decision, stating, “Newsom’s veto of AB 2218 is a backhanded betrayal of California Tribes and a direct contradiction of his apology and promises of reconciliation. For nearly 200 years, California has made decisions about our waters without us, disregarding the tribes whose cultures, communities and lifeways depend on them. Newsom had instead aligned with ‘special water interests that profit from extractive and exploitive water management.’”

Karuk Tribe Chairman Russell “Buster” Attebery also emphasized that Tribes “need to be at the table when decisions are being made.”

SB 1125: Water Rate Assistance Program was also met with a veto. Authored by Senator Caroline Menjivar, the bill would have established a statewide Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Program, helping ensure that families across California can access safe and affordable water.

🔗 Read more about each bill and the Governor’s vetoes: https://tinyurl.com/yjx3fpb4

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