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Delta Vision releases Strategic Plan first draft: Calls for strong governance, ecosystem, a National Heritage Area and options for storage and conveyance

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 22, 2008 at 10:34 pm

From the State of California Resources Agency and the Delta Vision Task Force website, this press release:

The Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force next week (June 26-27) will review initial recommendations to improve water management and conveyance in the Delta as well as a proposal for a new governing structure over Delta ecosystem health and water supply reliability. The recommendations are included in the first staff draft of a Strategic Plan that will be revised through a series of public meetings over the next four months.

Consistent with the vision adopted by the Governor’s Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force in 2007, the staff draft also recommends special protection for the Delta itself, and strong actions to restore the Delta’s physical habitat and actions to safeguard water supplies in wet and dry times through regional self-sufficiency and system enhancements.

The staff draft strategic plan recommends a new governance structure with the creation of the California Delta Ecosystem and Water Council, which would have fiscal and regulatory authority over a wide variety of projects with the legal Delta. It also calls for a strengthened Delta Protection Commission, a new Delta Conservancy, and a new Delta Science and Engineering Board.

Read the rest of this press release by clicking here.

Read the draft of the Strategic Plan by clicking here. Note this is the first draft and is considered non-attributable because it has not been discussed by the task force yet.

The task force meets this Thursday and Friday (June 26-27) to discuss the strategic plan. Click here for the agenda. Note agenda item #7, “Discussion of Draft Recommendation on Conveyance and Storage”, which includes this attachment of DWR’s assessment of dual Delta water conveyance options.

To visit the Delta Vision Website: http://deltavision.ca.gov

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June 22, 2008 · Filed Under Delta Vision Task Force

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