Package includes billions for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, with a focus on small and disadvantaged communities From the Office of...
41 counties now under drought state of emergency to protect communities and the environment, representing 30 percent of the state’s population...
From the US Fish & Wildlife Service: Phase 3C of the Lower Clear Creek Floodway Rehabilitation Project has been completed, attracting fish and wildlife to new habitats and people to new recreation opportunities. This phase concludes the extensive and decades-long...
Did BOR shift economic burden from Water Contractors to taxpayers? From the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations: On Monday...
PNNL leads investigation into hydropower’s evolving value to the grid and energy storage By Genoa Blankenship, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Across the...
Hold placed on North-of-Delta Agriculture Service Contractors due to worsening drought conditions Today, the Bureau of Reclamation announced an update to the initial Central Valley Project 2021 water supply allocation for agricultural water service contractors north-of-Delta. Allocation amounts are based...
Delta Watermaster: It’s physically, ecologically, and economically impossible to squeeze water out of the Delta for export. At the April...
The monthly reservoir report is authored by hydrologist Robert Shibatani exclusively for Maven’s Notebook. Continued warnings about California’s pending dry-year...
The impact of climate change on flood risk in the Delta varies by location, which means the fixes will too. “It’s not one Delta, it’s many different regions and they’re each going to need different adaptation strategies,” said Andrew...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is expected to declare a shortage on the Southwest’s lifeline in August, which could leave...
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Laurel Larsen spotlighted a research article that studied...
ESTUARY News sent reporters to the first virtual Bay-Delta Science Conference in April 2021. This special edition of Pearls shares more than 24 takeaways in four parts (between April 21 & April 29) Fish prey species in the Delta are...
From the Courthouse News Service: The Ninth Circuit revived the Navajo Nation’s breach of trust claim alleging that the federal...
Presentation by Dr. Ted Sommer, Lead Scientist at the Department of Water Resources, for the 2021 Bay-Delta Science Conference. Dr....
DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Delta Conveyance Project update: Environmental review, community benefits
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Councilmembers received an update on the Delta Conveyance Project, including the status of the environmental review process and the results of the recent environmental justice survey. First, Graham Bradner, Interim Executive...