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Q&A on Delta ecosystem challenge

Posted by: Maven on December 10, 2008 at 6:41 am

From the Sacramento Bee:

By New Year’s Eve, a panel of state Cabinet secretaries called the Delta Vision Committee will send the governor and Legislature a plan to replumb and restore the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the hub of California’s freshwater delivery system.

It will be one of the most ambitious infrastructure and habitat restoration projects ever proposed in America.

The Delta provides drinking water to 25 million Californians and irrigates 3 million acres of farmland via diversion pumps near Tracy. But these diversions have contributed to a broad ecosystem collapse in the Delta, including nine fish species in steep decline. As a result, water deliveries to the Bay Area and Southern California have been curtailed.

California Resources Secretary Mike Chrisman, who chairs the Delta Vision Committee, and Karla Nemeth, his liaison to the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan, describe how their planning efforts likely will converge, probably in 2010, in a big decision for California voters.

Read more of this Q&A with Mike Chrisman & Karla Nemeth in the Sacramento Bee by clicking here.

December 10, 2008 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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