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Letter: Friends of the River says Bay Delta Conservation Plan alters critical habitat and is not permissible under the ESA

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

October 1, 2013

Friends of the River has sent a letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,...

Letters: Southern California business groups support the Bay Delta Conservation Plan

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

October 1, 2013

Lest you think all the correspondence is negative, here are two letters of support for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. ...

Letter: Congressional leaders send letter to Secretary Jewell, questioning federal funding for the BDCP

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

September 27, 2013

Northern California Congressional leaders have sent a letter to Secretary Jewell outlining their concerns regarding federal financing for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and requesting a meeting with federal officials. Among the concerns stated in the letter, the legislators write:...

Delta Stewardship Council hears an update on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan’s governance structure and adaptive management plan

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

September 27, 2013

At yesterday’s meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Karla Nemeth and Carl Wilcox updated the Council on the BDCP’s adaptive...

State sets date for start of public comment period for Bay Delta Conservation Plan

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Delta Conveyance Project

September 20, 2013

In a letter to Commissioner Michael Connor, Secretary Laird lays out the latest time frame for the release of the...

Top scientists review the Bay Delta Conservation Plan

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Best of the Notebook Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

September 19, 2013

An independent review of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan has just been released by American Rivers and The Nature Conservancy. The panel, convened by Dr. Jeff Mount included William Fleenor, Brian Gray, Bruce Herbold, and Wim Kimmerer. They conducted a...

Rebuttal: NRDC’s Kate Poole fires back at the State’s analysis of the portfolio approach, saying “The portfolio approach provides more water and a more reliable water supply at less cost than provided by the current BDCP”

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September 16, 2013

Kate Poole at the Natural Resources Defense Council fires back at the State’s analysis of the portfolio approach on the...

Metropolitan committee members discuss the estimated impact of the BDCP on Metropolitan’s rates

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

September 4, 2013

At the August 27th, 2013 of Metropolitan’s Special Committee on the Bay Delta, the Committee heard a presentation on the...

Letter: Congressmembers Matsui and others ask Governor Brown to postpone the release of the BDCP documents, saying “… the current BDCP plan and process are deeply flawed and do not warrant federal funding at this time.”

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

September 3, 2013

Congressmembers Doris Matsui, George Miller, John Garamendi, Jerry McNerney and others have written a letter to Governor Brown expressing their deep concerns that the Bay Delta Conservation Plan is overly reliant on federal funding that may not materialize. The legislators...

Aguanomic’s blogger David Zetland moderates a Restore the Delta panel session

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

August 27, 2013

In July, Aguanomic’s blogger David Zetland moderated a panel discussion hosted by Restore the Delta after a viewing of their...

Delta Stewardship Council hears a BDCP update, plus a frank discussion on tunnel size and capacity

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

August 23, 2013

At the Delta Stewardship Council’s meeting on August 22, Karla Nemeth, project manager, and Gordon Enas, engineer, were there to...

Letter: NGO’s send letter to Governor Brown outlining three actions for achieving a Delta solution

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

August 18, 2013

After meeting with the Governor earlier this month, The Nature Conservancy, Defenders of Wildlife, American Rivers, The Bay Institute, The Planning League and the NRDC sent a letter last week to Governor Jerry Brown, identifying three priority actions needed in...

Letter: Another group of NGOs write federal agencies, allege BDCP’s documents are inaccurate and misleading in regards to tunnel size

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Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

August 18, 2013

Meanwhile, a different group of NGOs, namely Friends of the River, the Environmental Water Caucus, Restore the Delta, the California...

In his own words: DWR’s principal engineer describes the changes to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan

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Best of the Notebook Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

August 16, 2013

No doubt, the big story today in the papers will be regarding the changes made to the Bay Delta Conservation...

Reactions pour in from yesterday’s BDCP announcement of changes to the project

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Delta Conveyance Project

August 16, 2013

I received and collected a few reactions from various organizations to yesterday’s announcement. Here’s what I have, listed in alphabetical order: From the Association of California Water Agencies: Timothy Quinn, executive director of the statewide Association of California Water Agencies...