Water Bond Easily Wins Voters’ Nod Battle Begins To Keep Funding Steered Toward Intended Purposes After a decade of effort, California has produced a voter-embraced water bond that will result in real water development. Now, however, what may be the…
Massive Delta Plan’s Release Sparks Debate December’s release of the 34,000-page Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its environmental review for formal public review has unleashed a torrent of debate and obvious statewide division over the proposal and its key…
Governor’s Highest Water Official Retires Jerry Meral, who retired on New Year’s Eve as Governor Brown’s leading water official, came into the second Brown administration best known for his preservationist and environmental work but earned many accolades from California’s water…
DWR Chief Says BDCP Is A Good Investment State Department of Water Resources Director Mark Cowin used a recent Fresno address to promote the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its proposed 35-mile twin tunnel Delta bypass water conveyance feature.…
BAY-DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN’s 20,000 PAGES Preliminary Proposal Released Twenty thousand pages of planning, alternatives and environmental analysis have been released as a preliminary Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) draft environmental study. The consultant draft Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement…
Costa Legislation Seeks To Boost Valley Water Supply The western San Joaquin Valley’s deepening water supply crisis is being targeted in legislation introduced May 10 by Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno). Costa said what he calls the “More Water…
Friant Staff Evaluating Draft Bay-Delta Plan Release of the Bay-Delta Comprehensive Plan’s administrative draft continues and as each chapter becomes publicly available the Friant Water Authority’s staff is evaluating what the plan says. “We are taking a close look at…
Stewardship Council OKs Its Plan For Delta Lasting solutions may have proven elusive but the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta continues to be well stocked with studies and planning efforts, with the latest having just had a last set of changes finalized.…
Resources Secretary Laird Says Unique Opportunity Exists To Craft Delta Fix Signaling that Governor Brown’s administration continues to place a high priority on finding solutions to the Bay-Delta Estuary’s many problems, state Resources Secretary John Laird has described California as…
A recently-floated Natural Resources Defense Council trial balloon seeking to drastically downsize a proposed Delta water conveyance tunnel would have enormous long-term negative consequences to San Joaquin Valley agriculture, the California Farm Water Coalition contends. NRDC and a coalition of…