Using a team of world-class engineers with decades of tunneling experience, the Delta Conveyance Design & Construction Authority (DCA), working at the direction of the Department […]

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is in the eastern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most seismically active areas in the United States. […]

Piles are a common construction material for major infrastructure. Driving piles into place through traditional impact driving can create considerable noise. The Delta Conveyance Design and […]

Modernizing the State Water Project requires construction activity in parts of the northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Construction activities for this type of project necessarily require the […]

Launch shaft sites are the largest land footprints of the Delta Conveyance Project given the acreage it takes to place tunnel boring machines into the ground, […]

Constructing new intakes in the northern Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is foundational to modernizing the State Water Project via the Delta Conveyance Project. The Delta Conveyance Design […]

The soil excavated by the Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) in the construction of the Delta Conveyance Project will consist of mostly sand, silt, and clay, and […]