This just in from the Delta Stewardship Council: the Office of Administrative Law has approved the Delta Plan’s fourteen regulations,...
The five Fresno County supervisors have written Senator Feinstein, asking her to introduce legislation to aid the Central Valley in...
At the August 6th meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board, Delta Watermaster Craig Wilson updated Board members on the activities of his office. Complaint against DFG’s water use in the Delta resolved: A complaint had been made alleging...
With at least seventeen seawater desalination facilities currently proposed along California’s coast in such locales as Huntington Beach, Monterey Bay,...
Filling in today for the vacationing Maven is a guest blogger. So what do you do when you have two...
From the Bay Delta Conservation Plan website: “The Bay Delta Conservation Plan has released a draft statewide economic impact study that analyzes the project as an investment for the state as a whole. The study indicates that the BDCP would...
At the July 25th meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, the Council heard an update from the Department of Water...
With large restoration acreage targets and potentially billions of dollars to be spent by multiple agencies on restoration in the...
Today, Maven welcomes guest blogger Robert Shibatani to the Notebook blog. Robert Shibatani is a physical hydrologist and long-time consultant for the California water industry, and is Vice Chair of the Environmental & Water Resources Institute/ASCE Norcal Chapter, among other...
At the July 23rd meeting of Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay-Delta, Dr. David Sunding presented the economic case for...
Earlier this week on West Marin Community Radio’s show, Post Carbon Radio, Deputy Director of Natural Resources Agency Jerry Meral...
The Delta Stewardship Council’s role regarding the BDCP, as well as the multiple lawsuits filed over the Delta Plan were some of the topics discussed as Phil Isenberg, Chair of the Delta Stewardship Council, updated the California Water Commission on...
On July 17, a public meeting was held to discuss the remaining chapters of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan that...
The federal lead agencies for the BDCP EIR/S, Bureau of Reclamation, US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National...
The State Water Resources Control Board, a responsible agency for the BDCP’s EIR/S under CEQA provisions, has submitted their comments on the administrative draft of the environmental impact statement. Their analysis focused on the CEQA analysis for the preferred alternative...