On May 28, the day prior to the release of the remaining chapters of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, Restore...
From yours truly at Capitol Weekly: “The price tag is up to nearly $25 billion, but the benefits are up,...
Chris Knopp, Executive Officer of the Delta Stewardship Council, issued this statement : “The lawsuit filed recently by the Westlands Water District and San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority is disappointing, but not unexpected. In essence, this suit challenges the...
Do you need to read the Bay Delta Conservation Plan documents but don’t know where to start? Do you want...
Chapters 8 through 12 are now available at the Bay Delta Conservation Plan website. The released chapters cover implementation costs...
Last Friday, the San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority and Westlands Water District filed a lawsuit with the Sacramento County Superior Court against the Delta Stewardship Council for adopting the Delta Plan and certifying the Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR)....
On May 14th, the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee and the Senate Select Committee on the Delta held a...
From the Delta Stewardship Council: “After eight drafts, almost 100 public meetings, and nearly 10,000 individual comments, the Delta Stewardship...
“Science, once siloed and hyper-competitive, is becoming increasingly collaborative in the face of the high cost of research and the need for speed in discovery,” wrote Reuter’s News Service in their 2012 Annual Report. Indeed, “collaborative science” is the new...
The Bay Delta Conservation Plan envirnomental documents have been posted this morning. I will be working over the weekend to...
With the very first Delta Plan set to be adopted in May, just how that plan would be implemented was...
From the Office of Governor Jerry Brown: “The State of California and the Obama Administration today agreed to a formal deadline of October 1, 2013 for the release of the draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and accompanying environmental documents...
Amid the controversial remarks and charges of lack of stakeholder participation, Brown Administration officials had their chance to defend the...
As a follow-up to the story, State Water Project reliability: It’s not just about the Delta, the California Water Commission...
Concerns about the State Water Board’s proposed San Joaquin River flow objectives, the BDCP’s effect on upstream water rights, and a lack of coordination between the three major Delta planning processes underway prompted Congressmen Denham, Costa, LaMalfa, Garamendi, Nunes, McClintock,...