Yesterday, the Executive Director of the State Water Resources Control Board sent a letter to Ernest Conant at the Bureau...
On Feb. 27, 2019, an atmospheric river 350 miles wide and 1,600 miles long barreled through the sky, funneling moisture...
Damaging floods are more common in California than you might think; over the past 60 years, every county has been declared a state or federal flood disaster area multiple times. Central Valley levees have failed on more than 70 occasions...
Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would...
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board is providing an opportunity for written public...
Californians rely on the state’s myriad of rivers and streams for things such as water supply, hydropower, recreation, fisheries, biodiversity, and more. These ecosystems and the benefits they provide are part of the state’s natural infrastructure. But these ecosystems are...
The Low-Income Water Rate Assistance Act established through Assembly Bill 401 (Dodd, 2015) directs the State Water Resources Control Board...
Recently, the Department of Water Resources, Office of Floodplain Management launched a new safety initiative called Headwaters to Floodplains which...
Green infrastructure can be a resilient, multi-benefit approach to address issues such as urban runoff pollution and climate change adaptation. A substantial number of stormwater green infrastructure projects have been built in the Bay Area over the last two decades...
Historically, the San Joaquin River has supported large chinook salmon populations. However, since the Bureau of Reclamation’s Friant Dam on...
The San Francisco Estuary Partnership periodically reports on the health of the estuary, producing the State of the Estuary report...
While considerable progress has been made to improve flood management in the Central Valley, the vast region still faces significant flood risk. Approximately 1 million Californians live and work in the floodplains of the Central Valley, with approximately $80 billion...
DeDe D’Adamo, Karla Nemeth, and Susan Tatayon give their thoughts about going forward in the Delta in a panel discussion...
Dr. Rachel Johnson discusses the interconnectedness of the San Francisco’s freshwater, estuarine, and marine systems The San Francisco Estuary is...
In her address to the State of the Estuary conference, Felicia Marcus spoke about the connections of the Delta to all Californians and the importance of working together and more broadly to solve the challenging problems before us. Felicia Marcus...