The Delta Stewardship Council held its January meeting on the 27th and the 28th, before comments from two weeks of January scoping meetings could be compiled, condensed and processed for consumption.  They have a Delta Plan to complete by January 2012. On the first day of the DSC meeting, Independent Science Board Lead Scientist Cliff...Read More

On Day 2 of the DSC meeting, Dr. Richard Norgaard, chair of the Delta Independent Science Board, reported to the DSC about the ISB’s work on stressors.  Norgaard told the council that there is no scientifically objective, agreed upon method for ranking stressors.  Said Norgaard, “We’re giving you a report on addressing multiple stressors to...Read More

This week Governor Brown compared a proposed ballot measure relating to the state budget to the peripheral canal; make it bigger and you get support from those down stream, but increase the opposition at the same time – and vice versa. “The genius is in determining the size of the pipe,” he said. So far,...Read More

Senator Dianne Feinstein has been named chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development. The subcommittee’s jurisdiction includes the Department of Energy, the Army Corps of Engineers, and the Department of the Interior water programs. Feinstein said that she is honored to chair a subcommittee “tasked with funding and oversight for some of...Read More

At scoping meetings in January, the Delta Stewardship Council heard from seven California regions that will be affected by the Delta Plan, either because they are in Delta watershed areas or because they get water from the Delta.  The Proposed Planning Area for the Delta Plan Environmental Impact Report covers half the state. At the...Read More