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...
Secretary of Natural Resources John Laird has responded to legislator’s demands that the BDCP consider the ‘Portfolio-Based Conceptual Alternative’. Mr. Laird writes that the state already has as its goal further advancement in water conservation and recycling as important components...
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...
The Owens Lake Dust Control Project. It’s hard to imagine there’s any place more surreal then this place – in a Mad Max infrastructure sort of way. The Department of Water and Power has spent over a billion dollars cleaning...
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...
From yours truly at the California Water Blog: “California’s water future is at a critical juncture. The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is declining, both as a reliable hub for exporting water for millions of Californians and millions of farmed acres, and...
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...
Chapters 5 through 7 of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan documents have been released and are available now at the BDCP website: http://baydeltaconservationplan.com/Library/DocumentsLandingPage/BDCPDocuments.aspx Included in today’s release is the lengthy Effects Analysis, which describes the effects of the Plan on...
On March 4, 2013, the California Water Policy Seminar Series continued at UC Davis with Felicia Marcus as the guest...
On March 20th, a public meeting to review the first four chapters of the preliminary draft of the Bay Delta...
Last Friday, the Department of Water Resources and the federal fish agencies filed their brief in Fresno supporting their request for a three-year extension of the remand schedule for the new biological opinions in order to implement a collaborative science...