Last month, DWR director Mark Cowin announced that computer modeling showed an additional 700,000 acre-feet of water could have been sent to exporters since November 1 if the peripheral tunnels had been in place. The argument is that with North Delta diversions, less water would be pumped from the South Delta, so smelt would not...Read More

As he seeks to make the case that the benefits of BDCP will exceed its costs, economist Dr. David Sunding is estimating that restoring 30,000 or more acres of habitat in the Delta, some of it on land currently used for farming, will mean a net gain in jobs for the half-century scope of the...Read More

The preliminary draft chapters of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan will be available for viewing on the BDCP website on the days of release listed below. The release will occur in three stages and each release will be followed by a public meeting. The anticipated schedule is as follows: STAGE 1 March 14 BDCP release:...Read More

Those trying to keep track of all the different processes affecting the Delta face a special challenge this month, when THREE meetings of great interest to the people of the Delta all fall on the same day, March 20.   Those listed below have been scheduled for months; the third – the BDCP public meeting –...Read More