May 14, 2013
Joint Informational Hearing of Committee on Natural Resources and Water and Select Committee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta:
"The Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Perspectives on the Plan"
- 5/14/13 Agenda
- Audio of Hearing
- Maven’s Minutes: Joint Informational Hearing: natural Resources and Water and Select Committee on the Delta: “BDCP: Overview of the Issues”
Materials Provided By Witnesses
- Metropolitan Water District, It’s About Reliability: Bay Delta Conservation Plan attached: BDCP Reliability Fact Sheet final
- Metropolitan Water District, 2014 Water Bond Priorities attached: 2014 Water Bond Priorities
- State Water Contractors, Delta Water Tunnels: Build It Once, Build It Right attached: Delta Water Tunnels
- State Water Contractors, Securing our Water, Restoring the Delta, Creating Jobs attached: BDCP Jobs Fact Sheet
- Don Nottoli Sacramento County Supervisor Testimony
- Doug Obegi, State’s Refusal to Use Sound Science Continues to Delay the Bay Delta Conservation Plan
- Northern California Water Association, What’s at Stake? attached: NCWA Whats At Stake Brochure
- Sacramento Bee, 4/28/13: Delta tunnel project to radically change Sacramento County landscape
Recent Editorials/Columns
- Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee, 3/17/13: Scope and Impact of Delta Twin Tunnels is Starting to Hit Home,
- Lois Henry, Bakersfield Californian, 4/10/1: Delta Tunnel Plans Have Water Districts On Edge
- Sacramento Bee Editorial, 4/28/13: Feds Need to Press Brown to Look at All Options for a Bay-Delta Fix,
- Mercury News Editorial, 5/4/13: Bay Area Can’t Afford to Lose Delta Water Fight
- LA Daily News Editorial, 5/5/13: Build Delta Tunnels for All of California
Other Voices
- Southern California Water Committee, Why Last Minute Proposals for the Delta Fall Short of California’s Needs, 4/26/13
- Restore the Delta,Restore the Delta Responds to Peripheral Tunnels Update, 4/30/13
- U.S. Representative Doris Matsui, Committee on Natural Resources and Water, 4/30/13 attached: State Senate Hearing Remarks
April 30, 2013
Joint Informational Hearing of Committee on Natural Resources and Water and Select Committee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta:
"The Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Overview of the Issues"
Proposed Portfolio Approach
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Letter from Legislators to Secretary Laird
- Letter from Secretary Laird to Legislators
Select Newspaper Articles
- Sacramento Bee, 3.14.13: California officials unveil Delta water tunnel plan
- Sacramento Bee, 3.24.13: California voters, lawmakers have no say in OK of major river diversion plan
- Sacramento Bee, 3.27.13: Delta water tunnels post a tangle of complexities
- Sacramento Bee, 4.07.13: State water tunnel plans call for rerouting of 3 Delta highways for years
- Sacramento Bee, 4.16.13: Federal agencies raise concerns about Delta tunnel plan
- Sacramento Bee, 4.26.13: Gov. Jerry Brown presses feds for quick review of Delta water tunnel project
- Sacramento Bee, 4.28.13: Delta tunnel project to radically change Sacramento County landscape; Interactive map: Sacramento Delta tunnel project
Additional Information
- Link to current BDCP brochures, press releases, and federal fishery agencies’ comments on administrative draft:
- Link to current draft of BDCP
October 15, 2012
Informational Hearing: The Next Decade in the Delta
- Video: 10/15/12 Hearing
- 10/15/12 - Hearing Agenda [pdf]
- Delta Coalition Projects Transmittal Letter 10.12.12 [pdf]
- Near-Term Delta Coalition Projects: Summary Information (Source: Center for Collaborative Policy) [pdf]
- Near-term Delta Coalition Projects: Cost and Timing Information (Source: Center for Collaborative Policy) [pdf]
- Funding and Options for Near-Term Actions in the Delta (Source: LAO) [pdf]
August 5, 2010
Informational Hearing: Update on Flood Protection in the Central Valley
- 8/5/10 - Hearing Agenda
- Press Release: State’s budget crisis slows vital repairs to flood protection
August 26, 2009
Informational Hearing: Financing Water Infrastructure
- 8/26/09 - Hearing Agenda
- LAO Report: Financing Water Infrastructure
- The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta- 2009: An Exploration of Costs, Examination of Assumptions, and Identification of Benefits (by Steven Kasower)
