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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 ...
Reasons to be Cheerful reports on floodplain restoration in California's Central Valley as climate change intensifies both flooding and drought.
The $40 million was approved in early September by the California Wildlife Conservation Board. ... 350,0000 native trees and shrubs so far as part of the restoration of river habitat and flood ...
Founded in 1985, it is the oldest, continuing running urban watershed council in California. In 2004, the Wildcat San Pablo Watershed Council began work on the Wildcat Creek Watershed Restoration Plan (WRAP), to address recurring flood damages within the City of San Pablo. In April, 2010, the plan was published and addressed three goals: 1.
Floodplain restoration is the process of fully or partially restoring a river's floodplain to its original conditions before having been affected by the construction of levees (dikes) and the draining of wetlands and marshes.
The 1862 flood has been used as a key data point in creating the "ARkStorm Scenario," originally projected as California's once-in-a-thousand-years catastrophic flood event, but now some ...
Authorizes specified water resources development and conservation projects for navigation, flood control, flood and storm damage reduction, environmental preservation and restoration, shoreline erosion protection, hydropower, and hurricane damage reduction in California, the District of Columbia and Maryland, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri ...
The much smaller flood control community runs the risk of being the financial orphan in California’s climate change priorities. Until, of course, it really, really floods. “What are we ...