The Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) is a proposal to modernize State Water Project infrastructure in the Delta by creating an additional point of diversion along the Sacramento River coupled with existing conveyance facilities in the South Delta.
Axing former Gov. Jerry Brown’s design for two massive tunnels underneath California’s most important estuary, new Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration...
Today, Natural Resources Agency announced that the Department of Water Resources will cease pursuit of permits for a twin tunnel conveyance project and instead advance a single-tunnel conveyance project for the Bay Delta. Here’s what water agencies and organizations had...
“It is time finally for the Department of Water Resources (DWR) to develop and consider the required range of reasonable alternatives to a Tunnel project,” the letter states. Heartened by the change in administrations, conservation groups this week sent a...
Plus a wrap-up of media coverage of today’s events In Governor Newsom’s State of the State address earlier today, he expressed his support for a single-tunnel option and named Joaquin Esquivel to be the new Chair of the State Water...
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Coleman National Fish Hatchery is the largest salmon hatchery in California, annually producing 12 million fall Chinook Salmon smolts that substantially contribute to California’s ocean and inland fisheries. Standard practice at Coleman NFH is...
Recent developments propose significant changes to project operations that are not reflected in the modeling, they say Several letters were delivered to the California Water Fix hearing team at the State Water Board yesterday saying that in light of the...