Articles Tagged with ''voluntary agreements for Bay-Delta freshwater flows''

The state water board released a 6,000-page report Thursday detailing options for updating its Bay-Delta Plan.

EJs are pressing for more freshwater flows to fish populations and to boost their voices within GSPs that have failed to meet state standards. The board also has a role with Sites Reservoir and reforming water rights.

The state water board is hearing debates over a controversial plan that would soften the blow of its regulatory hammer and present new opportunities for protecting fish.

The coalition of local water districts and state agencies behind the voluntary agreements for Bay-Delta flows are bringing new concepts to water management.

The ruling sets a limit on the water board’s authority. But the agency retains several regulatory tools for curtailing senior water rights, and lawmakers could add more.

California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot says the Sites Reservoir Project is “on a pretty good pathway” for advancing through the environmental permitting process.

State agencies will face a hard deadline for approving the Bay-Delta Plan, if lawmakers approve a bill progressing through the Legislature.

Environmental groups are already lining up against Gov. Newsom’s plan for voluntary agreements in the Delta.

The Newsom administration has reached a deal with water contractors to sign a set of voluntary agreements for Bay-Delta flows as an eight-year program.