Here is the latest on the timelines for the BDCP and the Bay Delta Water Quality Control Plan: BAY DELTA...
While there may not be an miracle cure for the ailing Delta, there is a path forward that would achieve...
Mercury contamination is a widespread problem, not just locally but also globally, and its serious effects on health are well known. It is a particular insidious problem as mercury can be a threat to people and wildlife even in areas...
Governor Brown has sent a letter to Secretary Sally Jewell and Acting Secretary Rebecca Blank urging timely federal review of...
Here’s an update from the Delta Stewardship Council on the status of the Delta Plan: “A final review of the...
With so much attention and focus on the Brown Administrations $18 billion tunnel plan, otherwise known as the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, it could be easy to think it was the only planning process going on in the Delta. However, there...
Secretary of Natural Resources John Laird has responded to legislator’s demands that the BDCP consider the ‘Portfolio-Based Conceptual Alternative’. Mr....
The Department of Water Resources has announced negotiation sessions will begin next month for State Water Project contracts to develop...
The Eastern District Court has granted the request of the water and federal fish agencies to extend the deadline for rewrite of the Delta smelt and salmonid biological opinions by one year in order to implement an adaptive management program. ...
The Owens Lake Dust Control Project. It’s hard to imagine there’s any place more surreal then this place – in...
Just in time for your weekend reading pleasure, these documents, now available at the Bay Delta Conservation Plan website: NMFS...
A second public meeting on the BDCP documents was held in Sacramento on April 4th to discuss the newly released chapters of the draft plan, which included the much-anticipated Effects Analysis as well as implementation and governance of the plan....
From yours truly at the California Water Blog: “California’s water future is at a critical juncture. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta...
The Director of the Department of Water Resources, Mark Cowin, was the final speaker in the California Water Policy Seminar...
Have you been meaning to read those Bay Delta Conservation Plan documents that everyone’s talking about, but just hadn’t gotten around to it yet? Do you want to have a look at a particular table or drawing but can’t find...