How will you overcome the challenge of not disrupting reclamation districts’ routine levee maintenance during periods of high flood? How will we mitigate for the required seasonal and annual inspections to ensure reclamation districts are able to keep the community safe?
June 15, 2020How much peat dirt will be displaced in the process of excavating?
June 15, 2020In July 2017, DWR approved a conveyance project in the Delta involving two tunnels referred to as “California WaterFix.” In his State of the State address delivered February 12, 2019, Governor Newsom announced that he does not “support WaterFix as currently configured” but does “support a single tunnel.” On April 29, 2019, Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-10-19, directing several agencies to (among other things) “inventory and assess…[c]urrent planning to modernize conveyance through the Bay Delta with a new single tunnel project.” The governor’s announcement and executive order led to DWR’s withdrawal of all approvals and environmental compliance documentation associated with California WaterFix. The current CEQA process being completed by DWR will, as appropriate, use relevant information from the past environmental planning process for California WaterFix, but the proposed project will include new alternatives and undergo a new standalone environmental analysis leading to issuance of a new EIR. It would be difficult to compare the California WaterFix alternatives to the new EIR alternatives because they are different projects and, due to the time lapse, some analysis may be updated and utilize different assumptions used in the current CEQA process as compared to previous analyses.