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.
- Delta canal plan likely to land in court, experts agree -
- Delta panel urges California canal without legislative, voter OK -
- Sea lions along Sacramento River blamed for salmon decline -
- Giant gates mulled for Delta, to the chagrin of some -
- California panel misses deadline for Delta report -
- Funding crisis threatens park, levee, science projects -
- Some in California could see water supply cut in half -
- The Delta debate: Resurrecting the canal -
- Idyllic existence hangs in the balance -
- Political headwinds building against Delta pumping study -
- Q&A on Delta ecosystem challenge -
- Radio implants to track salmon through Delta -
- Panel: Quenching California's thirst requires a canal - and more -
- Feds launch second fish rescue effort on Prospect Island -
- Some in Delta mobilize to oppose peripheral canal proposal -
Coming Next
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Research 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