SACRAMENTO - Delta activist groups will gather at the Martin Luther King Park in Stockton on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 3 pm to protest the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) water meeting, taking place across the street at the Civic Auditorium later that afternoon.

WHO:Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta

WHERE:Martin Luther King Park (across from the Civic Auditorium) Stockton, CA

WHEN:Tuesday, September 22, 2009, 3:00 p.m.

After opposing a package of water bills that neglected to provide the people of the Delta communities with a voice and would have allowed for the construction of a peripheral canal, Delta groups will protest the BDCP water meeting. The BDCP meetings have a preordained outcome - the construction of a peripheral canal and the members of the Delta community will have their voice heard in this fight.

Restore the Delta is a grassroots campaign committed to making the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta fishable, swimmable, drinkable, and farmable to benefit all of California. Restore the Delta - a coalition of Delta residents, business leaders, civic organizations, community groups, faith-based communities, union locals, farmers, fishermen, and environmentalists - seeks to strengthen the health of the estuary and the well-being of Delta communities. Restore the Delta works to improve water quality so that fisheries and farming can thrive together again in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.