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11/29/2022

Please join us on Tuesday, December 6, from 4:00 p.m. — 5:30 p.m. at The Willow Ballroom & Event Center (10724 CA 160, Hood, CA 95639) for Delta Tunnel Draft Environmental Impact Report Public Comment Session. This event is hosted by the Delta Legislative Caucus and Delta Counties Coalition to Host Tunnel Draft EIR Comment Meeting

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01/16/2021

The opportunity to improve access to broadband service in the Delta is here! In addition to downloading the CalSPEED app for your mobile device to test and record data speeds, check out the opportunity to volunteer in a separate, home broadband study. You can learn more about that project at calspeed.net and complete a survey to see if you qualify as a volunteer.

As broadband policy and grant funding decisions are determined by service actually provided and not service advertised, the more data gathered from programs like CalSPEED the better the prospects are for improved broadband access in the Delta. Please consider participating in this important program!

01/10/2021

Delta history.

The end of steam-boating.
After the retirement of the "Seizer" in 1921, clearing the Sacramento River of snags was left to the "Bear" and then the "Yuba" which was built in 1925. These ships were based in Rio Vista like all other U.S. Army vessels assigned to the Sacramento District. In Jan 1924, the Bear was involved in an infamous incident when it was nearing the open draw bridge at Colusa. Here it swung out of control and hit a small dolphin (fender) then smashed into the bridge itself. The bridge sustained several thousand dollars in damage and the Bear was also badly damaged.
Steamboats traveled on the upper Sacramento until 1936. The Yuba was decommissioned in 1943. The colorful era of steamboats and barges on the upper river had lasted for 89 years. Pictured is the Seizer.
Bonus: The Sacramento River is the "artery that leads to the heart of California." It begins at Big Springs in the shadow of Mount Shasta and flows 580 winding miles to the Delta and finally into San Francisco Bay. Major tributaries include the Pit, McCloud, Feather, Yuba, and American Rivers. Stony Creek didn't make the cut as a "major tributary"!

01/08/2021

Delta Legacy Communities has two members on the National Heritage Area Management Plan Advisory Committee.

The management plan "will set up what kind of national heritage area we’re going to be. There are a lot of different types of national heritage areas. Some are more focused on tourism. Some are more focused on downtown economic development. Some are more focused on historic preservation. The management plan is the document that defines what the course of the national heritage is going to be and what types of projects are we going to go after.”

Amid the seemingly endless stories of threats to the Delta and the people who depend upon it, there is an occasional bright spot.

01/05/2021

TODAY! The very first Sacramento San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area Management Plan Advisory Committee meeting will be today 1/5 from 3-5PM via Zoom. Check out how we will be planning the National Heritage Area.

You can also sign up for their newsletter.

http://delta.ca.gov/NHA/

12/16/2020

Save the California Delta Alliance's Karen Mann on the sham Delta tunnel stakeholder engagement process: Kafka and Orwell "would both blush."

Karen Mann, the South Delta business member on the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority's Stakeholder Engagement Committee., wrote a searingly critical letter about their Delta stakeholder engagement process.

12/10/2020

Coverage from Scott Anderson of MWD's unanimous vote to fund the next two years of Delta tunnel planning.

Timely reports from Sacramento News & Review writers on breaking news and big issues.

12/04/2020

Please help Discover the Delta by signing their petition.

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12/01/2020

The past year saw a 56% reduction in funding for the Delta Conveyance Design and Construction Authority’s engineering design and field work for the Delta tunnel project. In November 2020, the Board had to cut an additional 20% cut from the budget for Fiscal Year 2020-21. The Delta Conveyance Desig

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The Delta

The Delta consists of approximately 57 reclaimed islands and tracts, surrounded by 1,100 miles of levees that border 700 miles of waterways. The southwestern side of the Delta lies at the foothills of the California Coast Ranges, while to the northwest sit the lower Montezuma Hills. Most of the Delta lies within Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano and Yolo Counties. The total human population of the Delta was 515,264 as of 2000.

Altogether, the Delta covers 1,153 square miles, with 841 square miles, or nearly 73 percent, devoted to agriculture. About 100 square miles of the Delta area is urban and 117 sq miles are undeveloped land. The rivers, streams, sloughs and waterways of the Delta total about 95 square miles of surface, although this fluctuates greatly with seasons and tides.

The main source rivers include the Sacramento River from the north, the San Joaquin from the southeast, and the Calaveras and Mokelumne Rivers from the east. The Calaveras and Mokelumne are both tributaries of the San Joaquin River. The Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers join at the western end of the Delta near Pittsburg, at the head of Suisun Bay, although they are linked upstream by the Georgiana Slough, which was first used by steamboats in the 19th century as a shortcut between Sacramento and Stockton. The southwestern part of the Delta is also transected by the Middle River and Old River, former channels of the San Joaquin. These rivers transport more than 30 million acre feet (8.9 cu miles) of water through the Delta each year – about 50 percent of all California's runoff.