Of interest to everyone, but especially to those who attended the West Coast spring retreat:
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California agency on Thursday unanimously adopted a broad, long-range plan to manage the ailing Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
After several hours of public comments and protests by opponents, the Delta Stewardship Council voted 7-0 to approve the final version of the Delta Plan, a blueprint for restoring the delta's ecosystem and improving water supply reliability.
The plan does not call for specific construction projects but contains policies and recommendations....
The “Delta”
covers 738,000 acres in a maze of islands, rivers and sloughs at the confluence
of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and several tributaries. The 58
islands are framed by 1,000 miles of rivers and sloughs and the Delta receives
its water from over 40% of the state’s land area. As noted in the newly released