About the Delta Section
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is the largest estuary on the West Coast of the Americas, a rich fishery, a boater's paradise and California's most important water supply. Environmental decline and natural disasters threaten to change the Delta forever. Stay on top of the changes here as policymakers debate the Delta's future.
- A water way? -
- Steinberg defends proposed water legislation -
- Channel gates to shut to aid salmon migration -
- Delta smelt still close to extinction, surveys show -
- Delta bill could drive up Sacramento sewage rates -
- Delta's future hinges on money as Sacramento legislators debate water-policy bills -
- Obama administration vows second look at protections for Delta -
- Swimmers brave dirty Delta for awareness -
- Yolo officials fear big water districts will buy up revenue-rich ag lands to aid smelt -
- Levee repairs continue on Bradford Island in Delta -
- Delta levee projects must now prepare for rising sea level -
- Delta peripheral canal protest comes up short -
- Feds seek solutions in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta -
- Vital Central Valley water sensors at risk from budget cuts -
- Delta canal plan protested -
Coming Next
- Jan. 29, 3:30 p.m.: Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency board meeting, 700 H Street, Sacramento. -
- Jan. 30, 9 a.m.: Bay Delta Conservation Plan Steering Committee meeting, Farm Bureau Federation, 2300 River Plaza Ave., Sacramento -
- Jan. 16, 9 a.m.: Bay Delta Conservation Plan Steering Committee meeting, Farm Bureau Federation, 2300 River Plaza Ave., Sacramento -
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Special Report
Delta Debate Forum
Matt Weiser on twitterResearch and Reports
- Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force
Final strategic plan (Nov. 2008): recommendations to governor and legislature on restoration, water plumbing - Public Policy Institute of California
Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (July 2008): recommendations on restoration, water plumbing - Calif. Department of Water Resources
Environmental studies underway on Delta canal options (ordered by Gov. Schwarzenegger Feb. 2008) - Bay-Delta Conservation Plan
Multi-agency effort to prepare habitat conservation plan, including new plumbing (expected late 2010) - CalFed Bay-Delta Science Program
Links to many Delta research topics
