Delta levees Archives

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Metropolitan Committee panel discussion considers the pros and cons of the Delta Conveyance Project

Delta Conveyance Project Notebook News and Features

December 3, 2024

The November meeting of Metropolitan’s One Water and Stewardship Committee, a joint meeting with the entire Board of Directors, was...

DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: The economic and environmental imperatives of Delta levees

Maven

Delta science Notebook News and Features

November 20, 2024

Flood risk is one of the most pressing threats to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Delta’s 1,100 miles of levees...

INFO SHEET: Delta levees 101

Delta Stewardship Council

ANNOUNCEMENTS Science Announcement

October 30, 2024

From the Delta Stewardship Council: Delta levees—1,100 miles of them—protect approximately 740,000 acres of land, providing multiple benefits, including protecting...

COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE: Owner of Bay Area island won’t get new trial over illegal levee ‘repair’

Courthouse News Service

Water rights and water law

October 22, 2024

A federal judge didn’t agree that a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision shielded the owner from liability under the Clean...

COURTHOUSE NEWS: Sacramento Delta stewards eye climate change protection for levees, habitats

Courthouse News Service

Climate change Planning and management

April 26, 2024

Stewards of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta say that preparing levees — which protect more than 600,000 residents and about...

NOW ONLINE: A New Decision-Support Tool and Storymap for Delta levees

Delta Stewardship Council

ANNOUNCEMENTS

February 21, 2024

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Stewardship Council is pleased to share new resources related to the Delta Levees...

NOW IN EFFECT: New flood-related regulation for prioritizing levee investments in California’s Delta

Delta Stewardship Council

ANNOUNCEMENTS

January 4, 2024

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The new year has brought new flood protections for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Delta...

DWR NEWS: Recent delta earthquakes a reminder of why modernizing our water infrastructure is vitally important

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Water project operations

October 24, 2023

From the Department of Water Resources: News of yet another earthquake in the heart of the Delta in the last week...

DWR: How the Delta Conveyance Project would make California’s water supply more resilient against earthquakes

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Delta Conveyance Project

July 24, 2023

From the Department of Water Resources: According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), there is a 72 percent chance...

DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL: Notice of Modification of Delta Levee Investment Strategy Economic and Fiscal Impact Statement

Delta Stewardship Council

ANNOUNCEMENTS Policy and regulation

December 16, 2022

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Stewardship Council is proposing a regulatory amendment to implement the Council’s Delta Levees...

NOTICE of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding the Delta Levees Investment Strategy

Maven

ANNOUNCEMENTS

August 27, 2022

From the Delta Stewardship Council: The Delta Stewardship Council is proposing a regulatory amendment to implement the Council’s Delta Levees...

FEATURE: First Field-Based Assessment of Levee Risk in the Delta

Robin Meadows

Delta science Notebook News and Features

October 5, 2021

Written by Robin Meadows Like other islands in the central Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Bacon Island has subsided below sea level...

ESTUARY PEARLS PART 3: Pesticides, HABs, New Neural Network, Ship Channel, Tule Red, Quake Risk Levees and more

Estuary News Group

Delta science Ecosystems

April 29, 2021

ESTUARY News sent reporters to the first virtual Bay-Delta Science Conference in April 2021. This special edition of Pearls shares...

THIS JUST IN … Wetlands Preservation Foundation announces lawsuit against Department of Water Resources and The Nature Conservancy

Conservation organizations & coalitions

Water project operations

July 24, 2018

Lawsuit Seeks to Address Fiscal and Environmental Mismanagement of Staten Island in the Delta From the Wetlands Preservation Foundation: “Wetlands...

Earthquake Resilience of Southern California’s Water Distribution Systems

Maven

Best of the Notebook Notebook News and Features

January 3, 2018

All the major water infrastructure bringing in water to Southern California cross the San Andreas fault at least once, sometimes...