Pulse flows Archives

July 31, 2025

The Kern Fan Groundwater Storage Project aims to create a regional water bank in the Kern Fan area, capable of...

NOTEBOOK FEATURE: A closer look at how predation and flow impact salmon survival

Fish and wildlife Notebook News and Features

July 16, 2025

Scarce flows, hungry predators, warm water, and politics conspire against salmon in the Delta, but which is the dominant stressor?...

UC SANTA CRUZ: Here’s how we help an iconic California fish survive the gauntlet of today’s highly modified waterways

UC Santa Cruz

Fish and wildlife

July 15, 2025

New ‘facilitated migration’ framework gives water managers a playbook for getting more juvenile Chinook salmon from the Central Valley to...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Pulse Flows and progress: Key highlights from the Chino Basin Program

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

June 12, 2025

At the May meeting of the California Water Commission, representatives from the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, the project proponent for...

CA WATER COMMISSION: How groundwater projects in Southern California provide pulse flows on the Feather River

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Groundwater News Notebook News and Features

June 11, 2025

Proposition 1 of 2014 dedicated $2.7 billion for investments in water storage projects, which the California Water Commission administers through...

PRESS RELEASE: Chino Basin program accelerates to enhance local water supply reliability

Press Release/Notice

Policy and regulation

May 23, 2025

Press release from the Inland Empire Utilities Agency: Backed by regional partnerships, the Chino Basin Program (CBP/Program) continues to move...

PRESS RELEASE: Northern California fishermen and farmers collaborate to boost number of salmon spawning in the Sacramento River

Press Release/Notice

Fish and wildlife

May 16, 2025

The Net Pen Project puts hatchery juvenile salmon in river water to decrease straying Approximately 540,000 Sacramento fall-run juvenile salmon...

CA WATER COMMISSION: Willow Springs Water Bank moves closer to meeting WSIP milestones

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Notebook News and Features Policy and regulation

April 30, 2025

At its April meeting, the California Water Commission received an update from the CIM Group and representatives of the Southern...

SAN JOAQUIN RIVER RESTORATION PROGRAM to release pulse flow for salmon spawning

San Joaquin River Restoration Program

Ecosystems

September 4, 2024

From the San Joaquin River Restoration Program: Starting early morning, Tuesday, September 10, the San Joaquin River Restoration Program (Program)...

NOW AVAILABLE: Department of Water Resources Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Pulse Flows Component of the Water Storage Investment Program Groundwater Projects Now Available for Public Review and Comment

Department of Water Resources (DWR)

ANNOUNCEMENTS

February 25, 2024

From the Department of Water Resources: The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), in compliance with the California Environmental Quality...

USBR NEWS: Reclamation takes advantage of full Shasta reservoir to release flows for migrating salmon

Bureau of Reclamation News

Delta science Ecosystems

May 8, 2023

Scientists aim to increase their data set from spring pulse flows By Gary Pitzer, Bureau of Reclamation Prior to the...

NOAA FISHERIES: Sacramento River pulse flow expected to increase survival of juvenile salmon traveling to the ocean

NOAA Fisheries

Ecosystems Science

April 24, 2023

Spring surge to benefit spring-run Chinook and fall-run Chinook that support fisheries. From NOAA Fisheries: Researchers from NOAA Fisheries and...

DELTA INDEPENDENT SCIENCE BOARD: The California Environmental Flows Framework

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Best of the Notebook Delta science Notebook News and Features

April 7, 2022

[cmtoc_table_of_contents] California water is a seemingly unending battle of allocating an often scarce resource among cities, farms, and the environment. ...

DELTA LEAD SCIENTIST: Managed flow pulses as food web support; Synthesis of food web data; Overview of the Science Action Agenda; and more …

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Delta science Ecosystems

December 21, 2021

At the December meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Dr. Laurel Larsen, Delta Lead Scientist, spotlighted an article on the...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Survival thresholds for Chinook salmon smolts in the Sacramento River

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Best of the Notebook Delta science

December 2, 2021

In California’s Central Valley, studies have found that increased streamflow can improve the survival of imperiled juvenile salmon populations during...