Bradshaw noted that Stakeholder Engagement Committee feedback led to changes in the design and location of key features, such as the removal of barge landings to avoid effects on Delta, recreational boaters, and traffic changes to construction siting to minimize noise and reduce adverse effects on sandhill cranes and other migratory birds avoiding the use of levee roads for heavy construction traffic to reduce potential impacts to levees and the relocation and elimination of shaft sites due to traffic congestion concerns on local roads and highways. The Stakeholder Engagement Committee completed its early design involvement and formally disbanded in January of this year. Two members of the DCA board of directors acted as Chair and Vice Chair. The Stakeholder Engagement Committee was comprised of 18 members representing agriculture, recreation, sportfishing, terrestrial and aquatic species, environmental justice, local business from the north and the south Delta, Delta history and heritage, tribal governments, Delta water districts, and county officials. With early design phase input from the Stakeholder Engagement Committee, DCA engineers were able to identify several design and logistics strategies to avoid and/or minimize potential construction effects on the local Delta community. The Stakeholder Engagement Committee was designed to create a forum where members of the public, designated committee members, and the DCA technical teams could exchange technical and community-based information. The Stakeholder Engagement Committee was established by the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Joint Powers Authority Board of Directors in October 2019. The proposed project is the Bethany alternative, which includes two intakes diverting 6000 CFS via a single tunnel along the eastern corridor and into the existing Bethany Reservoir. By being able to capture inflow when it’s available, overall exports would be more reliable than with the existing South Delta pumps alone.” That’s normally when reservoirs have historically captured runoff. “ Specifically, operating the proposed North Delta intakes would facilitate the capture of inflow when changing precipitation patterns are expected to generate higher inflow than the current April to June timeframe. “ The flexibility provided will allow the updated State Water Project the ability to capture, move, and stormwater by making the most of big but infrequent storm events.” “ The Delta Conveyance Project helps ensure that the State Water Project is more resilient to climate change, sea level rise, floods, and seismic events,” said Dee Bradshaw, Program Manager. This presentation included in-Delta engagement during the development of the draft EIR, tribal cultural resources, environmental justice, and the community benefits framework and program. That update included water supply reliability and resiliency and how the Delta Conveyance Project and the State Water Project relate to Metropolitan’s One Water vision. ( This project or some version of it has been discussed for decades.) The public review period for the draft environmental impact report ends on December 16.Īt the October committee meeting, the staff gave the first of a two-part presentation on the draft EIR for the Delta Conveyance Project. The Delta Conveyance Project is the latest iteration of a controversial project to divert water in the North Delta and route it through a tunnel under the Delta to existing infrastructure in the South Delta, rather than through the Delta’s leveed channels. Delta Conveyance Project draft EIR, part 2 At the November meeting of Metropolitan’s Imported Water Committee, agenda items included the second of a two-part presentation on the Delta Conveyance Project draft environmental impact report (EIR) and a presentation on a collaborative effort to restore salmonids in the Central Valley.
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