With the very first Delta Plan set to be adopted in May, just how that plan would be implemented was a main topic at the April 25th Delta Stewardship Council meeting. While the Delta Reform Act provides some direction for...
The landmark Delta Reform Act of 2009 made many changes to governance in the Delta, including a provision that required the appointment of a Delta Watermaster. The legislation charged the watermaster with several functions, including the responsibility for the administration...
Here’s an update from the Delta Stewardship Council on the status of the Delta Plan: “A final review of the Delta Stewardship Council’s proposed Rulemaking Package is under way now through April 22. The revised version out for review is...
Secretary of Natural Resources John Laird has responded to legislator’s demands that the BDCP consider the ‘Portfolio-Based Conceptual Alternative’. Mr....
The Owens Lake Dust Control Project. It’s hard to imagine there’s any place more surreal then this place – in a Mad Max infrastructure sort of way. The Department of Water and Power has spent over a billion dollars cleaning...
The Director of the Department of Water Resources, Mark Cowin, was the final speaker in the California Water Policy Seminar Series which concluded on March 18, 2013. Mark Cowin has worked for over 30 years at the Department of Water...
