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.
At the February 19th meeting of the California Water Commission, Director of the Department of Water Resources Mark Cowin updated the Commission on the Department’s drought response, the California Water Action Plan, the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, and groundwater management....
An advisory committee has recommended that Director of Fish & Wildlife Chuck Bonham deny the incidental take permit for the BDCP’s Alternative 4, saying that the plan does not meet the requirements of a Natural Communities Conservation Plan and therefore...
On February 12th, the Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review held an oversight hearing on the funding structure and economic impacts of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. Citing the ‘ever-expanding’ costs of the BDCP, Assemblyman Frazier started by stating...
From the Office of Assemblyman Jim Frazier: “[Wednesday], Assemblymember Jim Frazier (D-Oakley), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review, held a fiscal oversight hearing regarding the proposed funding structure for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). Testimony...
The latest online issue of ESTUARY News sums up two days of presentations and discussions on the 2013 State of the Estuary conference, held last October in Oakland. Here’s my coverage of the afternoon session which featured a debate bewteen...