At last week’s meeting of Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta, Bay Delta Initiatives Manager Steve Arakawa updated the committee on the Governor’s water resilience portfolio and the continuing planning efforts for Delta conveyance. STATEWIDE WATER RESILIENCE PORTFOLIO DEVELOPMENT...
From the Northern California Water Association: On Thursday, the Newsom Administration and the State Legislature approved a commitment of $70 million...
On April 29, 2019, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-10-19 that directed the secretaries of the California Natural Resources Agency, California Environmental Protection Agency, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture to prepare a water resilience portfolio that would...
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), passed in 2014, is California’s first statewide law that explicitly reflects the fact that surface water and groundwater are frequently interconnected and that groundwater management can impact groundwater-dependent ecosystems, surface water flows, and the...
In this edition of the San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science journal: ESSAY Ten Essential Bay‒Delta Articles Ted Sommer, J. Louise Conrad, and Steven Culberson DOI // URL RESEARCH Geospatial Tools for the Large-Scale Monitoring of Wetlands in the San Francisco Estuary:...
Attorney Mary Lynn Coffee unpacks the new wetland regulations and Waters of the State rule, plus a look at the 2019 Waters of the US rule On April 2, 2019, the State Water Board adopted new regulations requiring Water Boards...
