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Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $20 billion [1] plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot (11 m) diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by ...
The last time California finalized an environmental impact report for a similar Delta project was in 2016. That plan, which constituted a pair of tunnels, stumbled amid high costs and Newsom ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom has continued prioritized the Delta Conveyance project as a cornerstone of his water policy agenda despite that opposition, which also includes the Sites Reservoir and voluntary ...
A new analysis shows that building a California water tunnel would cost $20 billion. State officials say the project's benefits would far outweigh the costs.
The Metropolitan Water District's board is set to vote in December on whether to spend $141.6 million for planning of the proposed Delta tunnel project. California water agency considers spending ...
This accounts for 47.2% of the $300 million requested by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) from California’s water agencies. The Delta Conveyance Project will capture excess water flows ...
The approved Delta Conveyance project is facing legal opposition from Delta water groups and environmental advocates. Environmentalists, local agencies file lawsuits against California Delta ...
A Delta water-delivery project — one tunnel or two — has been touted by Jerry Brown and Newsom’s teams as a way of correcting a fundamental problem with California’s delivery system that ...