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Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $15 billion plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by the State ...
The CALFED Bay-Delta Program, also known as CALFED, is a department within the government of California, administered under the California Resources Agency.The department acts as consortium, coordinating the activities and interests of the state government of California and the U.S. federal government to focus on interrelated water problems in the state’s Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
Peripheral Canal. The Peripheral Canal was a series of proposals starting in the 1940s to divert water from California 's Sacramento River, around the periphery of the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, to uses farther south. The canal would have attempted to resolve a problem with the quality of water pumped south.
May 16, 2024 at 4:02 PM. Hector Amezcua/hamezcua@sacbee.com. The estimated cost for California’s controversial Delta Conveyance tunnel just went up by more than $4 billion. The state Department ...
State officials say the tunnel is intended to slow that decline by capturing water upstream on the Sacramento River, bypassing the Delta. ... The Delta, the central hub of California’s water ...
February 22, 2024 at 1:08 PM. Daniel Kim/Sacramento Bee file. In its fight against invasive aquatic plants in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the California State Parks’ Division of ...
Restore the Delta. Restore the Delta is a campaign, based in Stockton, California that advocates for restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta also known as the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary. It began in 2006 working towards education and outreach to help Californians recognize the Delta as part of California's heritage. [1] Currently, there ...
The California State Water Project, commonly known as the SWP, is a state water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the California Department of Water Resources. The SWP is one of the largest public water and power utilities in the world, providing drinking water for more than 27 million people and ...