Prepared by Robert Shibatani The New Year’s Atmospheric River storms of 2023 have abated and catchments across the State are draining as exemplified by continuing baseflows through their hydrograph recession limbs. River flows are still elevated, but releases have...
Best case scenario has adoption of updated Sacramento River objectives and implementation of San Joaquin River flow objectives in 2024 The San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary Water Quality Control Plan (or Bay-Delta Plan) establishes water quality objectives to protect...
With the ongoing drought, the outlook for Colorado River is bleak unless huge reductions can be made. By Bob Leal, Courthouse News Service Six of seven states in the Colorado River basin signed off on a consensus-based modeling alternative aimed...
Recent Storms Allow State Water Project to Increase Expected 2023 Deliveries to 1.27 Million Acre-Feet of Water From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced that recent storms will allow the State Water Project...
With the installation of Adán Ortega as the Chair of the Metropolitan Water District Board of Directors, there have been in the committee structure and assignments. The Bay-Delta Committee and the Water Planning and Stewardship Committee are no longer; they...
