Delta Stewardship Council Meetings

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of December 17, 2020 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 5 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Report
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. 2020 Delta Stewardship Council Annual Report
       • 2020 Annual Report: Adaptation in the Face of Uncertainty
       • 2020-2021 priorities
  • Agenda Item 6 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • By the Numbers Report
    • Attachment 2 - A Complex Phenotype in Salmon Controlled by a Simple Change in Migratory Timing
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 5 - Annual Report
  • Agenda Item 7 - Delta Conveyance Project (please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov to have the presentation sent to you)

• Second Revised Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of January 28, 2021 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 4 - Revised Approval of an Interagency Agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board
    Approval of an Interagency Agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board
    Public Comment on Item 3A
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislature Update
    3. Proposed 2021 Delta Stewardship Council Priorities
       • Attachment 1 - Delta Stewardship Council 2021 Priorities
  • Agenda Item 7 - Delta Watermaster Update
  • Agenda Item 8 - Overview of the Delta Landscapes Scenario Planning Tool
    • Attachment 1 - Delta Landscape Scenario Planning Tool Project Sumamry
  • Agenda Item 9 - Update and Public Comment on the Delta Adapts Public Review Draft Vulnerability Assessment
  • Agenda Item 10 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 2 - Farm to Fish: Lessons from a Multi-year Study on Agricultural Floodplain Habitat
  • Agenda Item 11 - Environmental Justice
    • Attachment 1 - Definitions

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of February 25, 2021 Meeting Summary
    2. Approval of an Amendment to a Contract with California State University, East Bay
    3. Approval of a Contract Amendment with Michigan State University
    4. Approval of a Contract Amendment with San Francisco State University
    5. Approval of a Contract Amendment with the University of California, Merced
    6. Approval of a Contract Amendment with the United States Geological Survey (Chinook Salmon Study)
    7. Approval of a Contract Amendment with the United States Geological Survey (Sediment Study)
  • Agenda Item 8 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 9 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - A Later Onset of the Rainy Season in California
  • Agenda Item 10 - 2022 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Update
    • Attachment 1 - 2022 CVFPP Update - Conservation Strategy Update
    • Attachment 2 - 2022 Update - Central Valley Flood Protection Plan
  • Agenda Item 11 - Delta Protection Commission’s Recreation and Tourism Update to the Economic Sustainability Plan
    • Attachment 1 - Comments on the 2020 update to the Economic Sustainability Plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Recreation and Tourism Chapter
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 10 CVFPP (please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov to have the presentation sent to you)
  • Agenda Item 11 DPC ESP (please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov to have the presentation sent to you)

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of March 25, 2021 Meeting Summary
    2. Approval of an Amendment to a Contract with AECOM for the Delta Adapts Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaption Strategy
    3. Approval of an Amendment to a Contract with the University of California, Davis
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Update
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Lead Scientist's Report
  • Delta Adapts Adaptation Strategy Kick-Off

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 4 - Public Hearing Regarding Appeals of the Certification of Consistency for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project
    • Attachment 1 - Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project Maps
  • Agenda Item 7 - Public Comment
    • Public Comment - Letter from Hood Community Council. Please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov for a copy of this material.
  • Agenda Item 8 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 9 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Response of Lower Sacramento River Phytoplankton to High-Ammonium Wastewater Effluent
  • Agenda Item 10 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy Update
    • Attachment 1 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy Priorities (Under Review)
    • Attachment 2 - Preliminary Draft Delta Levees Investment Priorities
    • Attachment 3 - Regions Containing Highest Vulnerability Areas
    • Attachment 4 - Proposed Amendment to Existing Regulation
  • Agenda Item 11 - Delta Independent Science Board Update
    • Attachment 1: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta by the Delta Independent Science Board
    • Public Comment – Letter from San Joaquin Audubon Society. Please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov for a copy of this material.
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 11 - May 2021 Delta Independent Science Board Update
  • May 2021 Delta Levees Investment Strategy (DLIS) Update
• Hearing Presentations:
  • Delta Stewardship Council staff presentation
  • Department of Water Resources
  • Liberty Island Access
  • Solano County Water Agency
  • Reclamation Districts 2068 and 2060
  • Central Delta Water Agency

For the Lookout Slough Hearing (Agenda Item 4), the councilmembers have received, and will continue to receive, submissions by the Department of Water Resources, the appellants, the Delta Protection Commission, and the public.

These materials include:

• Notice of Public Hearing and Supplements to the Notice
• Certification of Consistency
• Appeals, Appeal Letters, and Attachments
• Written Submissions from the Parties and Attachments
• Public comments and Attachments

Each of these submissions can be found on the hearing webpage (https://coveredactions.deltacouncil.ca.gov/profile_summary.aspx?c=ba3c59bf-e359-49f7-b866-60fa781325d0). If you have any questions about these materials and what the councilmembers received, please contact engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov.

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of May 20-21, 2021 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 5 - Public Comment
    • Bay Delta Water Conservation Plan
    • Funding for delta independent science board
    • Request to Repair DWR’s Flood System Repair Project (FSRP) Critical and Serious Seepage Sites in DWR Maintenance Area 9 (SAC44/45) Stone Lake and Hood
    • Funding the Delta Independent Science Board
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outgoing Correspondence
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Update
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Visual Abstract
  • Revised Agenda Item 8 - Consideration and Possible Approval of the Delta Science Program Research Awards Pursuant to the 2021 Joint Delta Science Proposal Solicitation Notice
    Agenda Item 8 - Consideration and Possible Approval of the Delta Science Program Research Awards Pursuant to the 2021 Joint Delta Science Proposal Solicitation Notice
    • Revised Attachment 1 - 2021 Delta Science Proposal Solicitation Projects and Contracts Overview
      Attachment 1 - 2021 Delta Science Proposal Solicitation Projects and Contracts Overview
    • Attachment 2 - 2021 Delta Science Proposal Solicitation Awards
  • Agenda Item 9 - Consideration and Possible Approval of the Delta Adapts Vulnerability Assessment and California Environmental Quality Act Exemption
    • Attachment 1 - Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future - Sacramento San Joaquin Delta Climate Change Vulnerabiltiy Assessment
    • Attachment 2 - Resolution 2021-1 Determination of CEQA Exemption; Approval of Delta Adapts Vulnerability Assessment
  • Agenda Item 10 - Update on the Department of Water Resources’ 2021 Emergency Drought Salinity Barrier in the Delta
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 9 - June 2021 - Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future
  • Agenda Item 10 - California Department of Water Resources - O&M South Delta Branch - Salinity Barriers Briefing, June 24, 2021

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 4 - Public Hearing Regarding Appeals of the Certification of Consistency for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project
    • Attachment 1 - Proposed Determination
    • Attachment 2 - Redlined Version of Proposed Determination
  • Agenda Item 5 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of June 24, 2021 Meeting Summary
    2. Revised Approval of a Contract with the Regents of the University of California, San Diego, California Sea Grant
       Approval of a Contract with the Regents of the University of California, San Diego, California Sea Grant
    3. Approval of a Contract Amendment with the Association of Bay Area Governments
  • Agenda Item 8 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 9 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Visual Abstract
• Lookout Slough Hearing Presentations:
  • Delta Stewardship Council
  • DWR
  • LIA
  • SCWA
  • RD 2060 & 2068
  • CDWA

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of July 15-16, 2021 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Framework for navigating polycentric governance
  • Agenda Item 8 - Delta Protection Commission Recreation and Tourism Update to the Economic Sustainability Plan Comment Letter
    • Attachment 1 - DRAFT Comments on the 2020 Update to the Economic Sustainability Plan for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Recreation and Tourism Chapter
  • Agenda Item 9 - Delta Social Science Integration Update
  • Agenda Item 10 - Public Participation Plan Update
    • Attachment 1 - Public Participation Plan
  • Agenda Item 11 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy Update, California Environmental Quality Act Addendum Approval, and Rulemaking Authorization
    • Attachment 1 - Resolution 2021-02: Approval of the Delta Plan Amendments Program Environmental Impact Report Addendum and Rulemaking Authorization for Delta Plan Policy RR P1 (Cal. Code Regs., tit. 23, §§ 5001 and 5012)
      • Resolution Attachment 1 - Delta Plan Chapter 7, Reduce Risk to People, Property, and State Interests in the Delta
      • Resolution Attachment 2 - Delta Plan Amendments Program Environmental Impact Report - Delta Levees Investment Strategy Addendum
      • Resolution Attachment 3 - Staff-Recommended DLIS Prioritization Table and Map
      • Resolution Attachment 4 - Staff-Recommended Modified Preliminary Draft Regulatory Language for Delta Plan Policy RR P1
    • Attachment 2 - May 2021 Council Meeting Delta Levees Investment Strategy Update Information Item
    • Attachment 3 - Central Valley Flood Protection Board Resolution No. 2018-06 For the Acceptable Operation and Maintenance of the State Plan of Flood Control
  • Presentations:
    • Agenda Item 8 - Economic Sustainability Plan Recreation and Tourism Update
    • Agenda Item 9 - Social Science Integration in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
    • Agenda Item 10 - Public Participation Plan Update
    • Agenda Item 11 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy (DLIS) Update
  • For reference, the Delta Plan Amendments PEIR documents referred to in the staff report and subsequent attachments are available here: https://deltacouncil.box.com/s/tvsolpv8b6t3v42fugpzzwpdqdz8piz1

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of August 26, 2021 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Temperature-dependent Chinook salmon smolt predation hazard
    • Attachment 3 - Review of Delta Mercury Control Program Phase 1 Reports
    • Attachment 4 - Predation of salmon in the Delta
    • Attachment 5 - Oncorhynchus mykiss (Steelhead and Rainbow trout)
  • Agenda Item 8 - Consideration and Possible Approval of a Contract with the Regents of the University of California San Diego, California Sea Grant for the 2022 Class of Delta Science Fellows and 2022/2023 Classes of State Policy Fellows
  • Agenda Item 9 - Delta Watermaster Update
  • Agenda Item 10 - Metropolitan Transportation Commission/Association of Bay Area Governments’ Draft Plan Bay Area 2050 Delta Plan Comment Letter
    • Attachment 1 - Comments on the Draft Plan Bay Area 2050 and Draft Environmental Impact Report, SCH# 2020090519
  • Agenda Item 11 - San Francisco Estuary Partnership and Estuary Blueprint Update
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 8 - Sea Grant Delta Science and State Policy Fellows
  • Agenda Item 10 Attachment 1 - Draft Plan Bay Area 2050 Delta Plan Consistency

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of September 23, 2021 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 5 - Public Comment
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Update
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Drought Decision Making Typology
  • Agenda Item 8 - Department of Water Resources’ 2021 Emergency Drought Salinity Barrier in the Delta
    • Attachment 1 - Plan to Delay Removal of the 2021 Emergency Drought Salinity Barrier
  • Agenda Item 9 - 2021 Van Sickle Flooding Event
  • Agenda Item 10 - Draft 2022 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Update
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist Report - Visualizing Zooplankton Data from the Sacramento San Joaquin Delta
  • Agenda Items 8, 9, and 10 - If you would like to receive a copy of any presentations not linked please email delta.engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of October 28, 2021, Meeting Summary
    2. Consideration and Possible Approval of a Time Only Amendment to a Contract with Stantec Consulting Services, Inc.
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Does salinity make pesticides more toxic to fish?
  • Agenda Item 8 - Workshop on the Draft Program Environmental Impact Report for the Proposed Amendment of Chapter 4 of the Delta Plan, Protect, Restore, and Enhance the Delta Ecosystem (Ecosystem Amendment)
    • Attachment 1 - Notice of Availability
    • Attachment 2 - Draft Program Environmental Impact Report
    • Attachment 3 - Draft Program Environmental Impact Report Appendices A-E
  • Agenda Item 9 - Carbon Capture and Storage in the Delta
    • Attachment 1 - Oppose AB 1395 - California Climate Crisis Act
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 8 - Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment

• Meeting Notice

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Revised Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Adoption of December 19 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 8 - Executive Officer’s Report
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Outreach Highlights Report
    4. Active Projects List
    5. Quarterly Contract and Budget Update
    6. Amendment of Contract with the University of California, San Diego/California Sea Grant to Revise the Scope of Work to Include Recruitment Activities for a UC Extension Specialist
    7. 2019 Council Accomplishments and Proposed 2020-2021 Priorities
       • Attachment 1: Council Priorities 2020-2021 Memo
       • Attachment 2: 2019 Annual Report
       • Attachment 3: Proposed 2020-2021 Milestone Schedule
  • Agenda Item 9 - Bay Conservation and Development Commission’s Adapting to Rising Tides Project
    • Attachment 1: Executive Summary: East Contra Costa Adapting to Rising Tides Project
  • Agenda Item 10 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1: By the Numbers Report (provided at the Council Meeting)
    • Attachment 2: Life History Strategies of Delta Smelt Visual Abstract

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 5 - Adoption of January 23, 2020 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 7 - Executive Officer’s Report

    Outreach Highlights Report

    Active Projects List

    • Legal Update
    • Legislative Update
    • Amendment of an Interagency Agreement with the Department of Water Resources to Support Information Technology Services
    • Agenda Item 8 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Agenda Item 9 - Review of the Public Draft of the Council’s Public Participation Plan
      • Attachment 1 - Draft Public Participation Plan
  • Outgoing Correspondence
    • Comments on Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 5 - Adoption of February 27, 2020 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 7 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • February 2020 Delta Stewardship Council Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Consideration of a Contract with the United States Geological Survey to Fund Operation Baseline 2.0 Investigations
       • Operation Baseline (One pager)
    4. Amendment of a Contract with the University of California, Davis for Acoustic Telemetry
    5. Amendment of a Contract with the University of California, Davis for Chinook Salmon Re-introduction Investigations
  • Agenda Item 8 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachemnt 2 - Temperature and region drive lamprey distribution in the Bay-Delta
  • Agenda Item 9 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy Regulation Update
    • Attachment 1 - Council Resolution 2020-01
      • Resolution Attachment 1 - Resolution 2018-1
      • Resolution Attachment 2 - 2018 Adopted Chapter 7 (Available upon request)
      • Resolution Attachment 3 - Resolution 2019-2
      • Resolution Attachment 4 - Revised Chapter 7 Draft
      • Resolution Attachment 5 - Notice of Decision Not to Proceed
  • Agenda Item 10 - Amendment of a Contract with Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. for Support for the Ecosystem Amendment to the Delta Plan and Delta Levees Investment Strategy
  • Outgoing Correspondence
    • Comments on Reclamation District No. 3 Grand Island Levee Erosion Repair Project Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration
  • PowerPoints
    • Delta Levees Investment Strategy Regulation Update
    • Operation Baseline 2.0

• Meeting Notice

April 30

• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 7: Executive Officer’s Report
    • March 2020 Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Quarterly Contract and Budget Update
  • Agenda Item 8: Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of March 26, 2020 Meeting Summary
    2. Contract with the University of California, Davis to Fund San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science (SFEWS)
       • Attachment 1: Estimated Budget Summary
    3. Amendment of an Interagency Agreement with the California Department of Water Resources for Information Technology Services
    4. Amendment of an Agreement with Aquatic Science Center for Integrated Modeling Support
  • Agenda Item 9: Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1: By the Numbers Summary (provided on meeting day)
    • Attachment 2: Visual abstract - Impacts of Human Activities on Estuary Juvenile Salmon
    • Attachment 3: FAQ for Science Review and Advice Services (provided on meeting day)
  • Agenda Item 10: Delta Independent Science Board Update
    • Attachment 1: Summary of the Delta ISB’s Review on the Interagency Ecological Program
    • Attachment 2: Summary of the Delta Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1
    • Attachment 3: Delta ISB Memorandum – Preparing for Accelerating and Uncertain Environmental Change
    • Attachment 4 Delta ISB Letter to Department of Water Resources Regarding Notice of Preparation for the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Agenda Item 11: Appointment of Delta Lead Scientist (Water Code §85280(b))
    • Attachment 1: Letter of Recommendation from the Delta ISB
  • Presentations:
    • Agenda Item 9 Social Science Task Force Presentation
    • Agenda Item 10 Delta ISB Update Presentation
    • Agenda Item 11 Appointment of Delta Lead Scientist Presentation

May 1

• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 3: Consideration of Authorization to Commence California Environmental Quality Act Review of the Draft Ecosystem Amendment as the Proposed Project
    • Attachment 1: Summary of Comments Received and Staff Responses
    • Attachment 2: May 2020 Draft Chapter 4, Protect, Restore, and Enhance the Delta Ecosystem (which includes policies and recommendations)
    • Attachment 3: May 2020 Draft Regulatory Requirements to Demonstrate Consistency with Regulatory Policies and New Definitions. Appendix 3A, Appendix4A, and Definitions
    • Attachment 4: May 2020 Draft Appendix 8A. Priority Locations to Evaluate Physical Expansion of Channel Width
    • Attachment 5: May 2020 Draft Appendix Q1. Methods Used to Update Ecosystem Restoration Maps Using New Digital Elevation Model and Tidal Data
    • Attachment 6: May 2020 Draft Appendix Q2. Key Considerations and Best Available Science for Protecting, Restoring, and Enhancing the Delta Ecosystem
    • Attachment 7: May 2020 Draft Appendix Q3. Identifying, Mapping, and Quantifying Opportunities for Landscape-Scale Restoration in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
    • Attachment 8: May 2020 Draft Appendix Q4. Conservation and Recovery Plan Target Species
    • Attachment 9: May 2020 Draft Appendix E. Performance Measures for the Delta Plan
    • Attachment 10: May 2020 Draft Performance Measure Datasheets
    • Attachment 11: May 2020 Draft Amendments to Chapter 4 Policies & Recommendations, Redlined Relative to Existing Chapter 4 Policies and Recommendations
  • Presentations:
    • Agenda Item 3 Presentation

• Outgoing Correspondence:
  • Comments Letter to Department of Water Resources for their Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Draft Handbook for Water Budget Development: With or Without Models
  • Comments on Sacramento River Bank Protection Project Phase II Supplemental Authority Final Environmental Impact Statement/Final Environmental Impact Report, SCH# 2009012081
  • Comments on Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan submittal to the Department of Water Resources
• Incoming Correspondence:
  • Comment Letter From Association of Bay Area Governments

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of April 30, 2020 Meeting Summary
    2. Adoption of May 1, 2020 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 7 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • April Outreach Highlights Report
    • May Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 8 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1: By the Numbers Summary
    • Attachment 2: Visual abstract - Large Contribution from Anthropogenic Warming to an Emerging North American Megadrought
  • Agenda Item 9 - Appointment of Members to the Delta Independent Science Board
  • Agenda Item 10 - Delta Watermaster Update
  • Agenda Item 11 - Endorsement of the Council’s Public Participation Plan
    • Attachment 1: Public Participation Plan
  • Agenda Item 12 - California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Franks Tract Futures Project

• Presentations:
  • Item 9 - Delta ISB Nominations Presentation
  • Item 10 - Delta Watermaster Presentation; contact engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov for a copy
  • Item 11 - Public Participation Plan Presentation
  • Item 12 - Franks Tract Project Update Presentation; contact engage@deltacouncilca.gov for a copy

• Outgoing Correspondence:
  • Comments on the Partially Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report for the State Water Project Water Supply Contract Amendments for Water Management, SCH# 2018072033
  • Comments on Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Valley Rail Sacramento Extension Project, SCH# 2019090306

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of June 25, 2020 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 8 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Quarterly Contract and Budget Update
    4. Delta Protection Commission and Delta Conservancy Update
  • Agenda Item 9 - Lead Scientist Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Mosaic of habitats provides nursery support for different fish
  • Agenda Item 10 - 2022 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Update
  • Agenda Item 10 - 2022 Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Update - Revised
  • Delta Plan and Flood Plan
  • Attachment 1 - Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Fact Sheet
  • Attachment 2 - Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Conservation Strategy Update

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of July 23, 2020 Meeting Summary
    2. Approval of a Contract with the Association of Bay Area Governments
  • Agenda Item 8 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 9 - 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda Update
    • 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda Information Sheet
  • Agenda Item 10 - Approval of a Federal Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
    • 2019 Competitive Research Awards
  • Agenda Item 11 - Water Use Efficiency Standards and Reporting Requirements for Agricultural Use: Making Conservation a Way of Life
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 9 - Science Action Agenda
  • Agenda Item 10 - 2020 Delta Science Proposal Solicitation
  • Delta Plan and Water Use Efficiency and Conservation
• Outgoing Correspondence:
  • Comments on Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment/EnvironmentalImpact Report for American River Watershed Common Features, Water Resources Development Act of 2016, Sacramento River Erosion Contract 1: River Mile 55.2 Left Bank Protection Project
  • Comments on Draft Supplemental Environmental Assessment/EnvironmentalImpact Report for the American River Common Features, Water Resources Development Act 2016, Sacramento River East Levee Contract 2 Project

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of August 27, 2020 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 7 - Sustainable Groundwater Management and the Delta Plan
  • Agenda Item 9 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 10 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
  • Agenda Item 11 - Delta Stewardship Council Fellows Presentations
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 7 - Groundwater Sustainability Plan Review
  • Agenda Item 11 - Fellow Lightning Round Presentations:
    • Annie Merritt - CivicSpark Climate Fellow - Planning Division
    • Byron Riggins - California Sea Grant State Policy Fellow - Delta Science Program, Collaborative Science and Peer Review Unit
    • Cheryl Patel - California Sea Grant State Policy Fellow - Delta Science Program, Science-Based Adaptive Management Unit
    • Molly Williams - California Sea Grant State Policy Fellow - Planning Division

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of September 24, 2020 Meeting Summary
    2. Amendment of an Agreement with the Aquatic Science Center for the Expansion of the Delta Landscape Scenario Planning Tool
  • Agenda Item 8 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Report
    1. Legal Report
  • Agenda Item 9 - Lead Scientist’s Report
  • Agenda Item 10 - Delta Watermaster Update
  • California Department of Water Resources’ Division of Multi-benefit Initiatives
• Recording (Closed Captioned)

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of October 22, 2020 Meeting Summary
    2. Amendment to an Agreement with AECOM for the Delta Adapts Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaption Strategy
  • Agenda Item 5 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
  • Agenda Item 6 - Key Draft Findings from the Delta Adapts Vulnerability Assessment
    • Attachment 2: Flood Maps
  • Agenda Item 7 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy Update
    • Attachment 1 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy (DLIS) Memorandum of Understanding
  • Agenda Item 8 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Lead Scientist’s Report Abstract
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 6 - Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future
  • Agenda Item 7 - Delta Levees Investment Strategy Update

• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of November 19, 2020 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 5 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
  • Agenda Item 6 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Troubled Water: Preparing for Climate Change in California
  • Agenda Item 7 - Delta Adapts: Draft Vulnerability Assessment
  • Agenda Item 8 - Delta Plan Performance Measures: 2020 Year in Review
    • Attachment 1 - Performance Measure Guidebook
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 7 - Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future
  • Agenda Item 8 - Delta Plan Performance Measures - 2020 Year in Review

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Agenda Item 3: Adoption of June 27 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 3: Adoption of June 27 Meeting Summary FINAL
  • Agenda Item 5c: Council 2019 Workplan Update
  • Agenda Item 5c: Proposed Council 2019 Workplan - January 2019
  • Agenda Item 6: Lead Scientist’s Report
  • Agenda Item 6: Atmospheric Rivers Visual Abstract
• Public Comment Letters
  • Leland Frayseth
• Outgoing Correspondence
  • None
• PowerPoints
  • None

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 5: Adoption of July 24 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 7b: Legislative Report
  • Agenda Item 7c: Budget Update
  • Agenda Item 7c: Contract Report
  • Agenda Item 8: Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 (available at the meeting)
    • Attachment 2
    • Attachment 3
  • Agenda Item 9: Delta Independent Science Board Chair Update
    • Attachment 1
  • Agenda Item 10: Draft Delta Plan Five-Year Review Report
    • Attachment 1
  • Agenda Item 11: Public Hearing on Proposed Rulemaking for Section 5001 (Definitions) and Section 5012 (Delta Levees Investment Strategy) (Delta Plan RR P1) of Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations (Government Code §11346.8)
    • Attachment 1
    • Attachment 2
    • Attachment 3
    • Attachment 4
    • Attachment 5
    • Attachment 6
    • Attachment 7
  • Public Comment Letters
    • California Central Valley Flood Control Association
    • California Farm Bureau Federation
    • Reclamation District 2111
    • Reclamation District 554
    • Reclamation District 317
    • Reclamation District 2067
    • Reclamation District 830
    • Reclamation District 3
    • Reclamation District 150
    • Reclamation District 2107
    • Central Delta Water Agency
    • Reclamation District 1
    • Reclamation District 2
    • Reclamation District 544
    • Reclamation District 2042
    • Reclamation District 2089
    • Flood Protect Lower Sacramento River-Delta North Region
    • East Bay Municipal Utility District
    • Local Agencies of the North Delta
    • Reclamation Districts 548, 2037, 2041, 2065
    • California Farm Bureau Federation
    • California Central Valley Flood Control Association
    • Delta Defenders
    • California Water Research
    • California Water Research - Attachment
    • Delta Protection Commission
    • Yocha Dehe Cultural Resources
    • Reclamation District 2062
    • Reclamation District 999
  • Outgoing Council Correspondence
    • Comments on June 2019 Draft Valley Link Feasibility Report
    • Comments on Proposed General Plan Amendment for Cache Slough
    • Delta Stewardship Council Active Projects List
  • PowerPoints
    • Delta Independent Science Board: Recent Accomplishments and Current Activities
    • Delta Plan Five-Year Review Draft Recommendations Report
    • Public Hearing on Proposed Rulemaking for Section 5001 (Definitions) and Section 5012 (Delta Levees Investment Strategy) (Delta Plan Policy RR P1) of Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations (Government Code §11346.8)

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 7: Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 8a: Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Update
  • Agenda Item 9b: Approval of a Federal Receivable Agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
  • Agenda Item 10: Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1
    • Attachment 2
  • Agenda Item 11: Inter-relationship of the Delta Plan and the California Water Resilience Portfolio
    • Attachment 1
    • Attachment 2
    • Attachment 3
  • Agenda Items 12 - 13: Overview of Southern California Water Supply Reliability and Reduced Reliance Projects; and Innovations in Water-use Efficiency and Reuse
  • August 2019 Outreach Highlights Report
  • Public Comment Letters
    • None
  • Outgoing Correspondence:
    • Delta Stewardship Council Active Projects List
    • Grand Island Levee Seepage Cutoff Wall Initial Study / Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND)
    • Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Reinitiation of Consultation on the Coordinated Long-Term Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project
    • Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Solano 4 Wind Project
  • PowerPoints
    • Agenda Item 6: Overview of Orange County Water District
    • Agenda Item 12 & 13: Devan Upadhyay, Southern California Sustainable Water Resources
    • Agenda Item 12: Jeffery Pasak, Pure Water San Diego Program
    • Agenda Item 12: Kyle Swanson, Water Supply Reliability for East San Diego County
    • Agenda Item 12: Mark Pestrella, LA County Public Works
    • Agenda Item 13: Joone Lopez, Moulton Niguel Water District Developing Innovative, Data-Driven Water Reliability Solutions
    • Agenda Item 13: Joe Berg, Water Use Efficiency in Orange County
    • Agenda Item 13: Dan Ferons, Santa Margarita Water District Local Resiliency
  • To obtain copies of unlinked meeting materials, please contact archives@deltacouncil.ca.gov for assistance.

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 5: Consideration of the Sacramento Area Council of Government’s 2020 Metropolitan Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy and its Consistency with the Delta Plan
    • Attachment 1: Council’s NOP Comment Letter, June 21
    • Attachment 2: Council’s Draft 2020 MTP/SCS and Draft EIR Comment Letter
  • Agenda Item 6: Adoption of September 26 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 8: Executive Officer’s Report
    1. Legal Update
    2. Outreach Highlights Report
    3. Active Projects List
    4. Contract and Budget Update
  • Agenda Item 9: Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1: Visual abstract on salmon life-cycle modeling
    • Attachment 2: Ecological Effects of the 2015 Emergency Drought Barrier
    • Attachment 3: Delta Smelt: Biology and Management 101
    • Attachment 4: By the Numbers Summary
  • Agenda Item 10: Council Consideration of Endorsement of the Delta Plan Five-Year Review Report
    • Attachment 1: Delta Plan Five-Year Review Report
    • Attachment 2: Proposed Resolution 2019-03
    • Attachment 2: Approved Resolution 2019-03
    • Attachment 3: Draft Delta Plan Five-Year Review Highlights
  • Public Comment Letters
    • Airport Land Use Commission
  • Outgoing Correspondence (formerly “public comment letters”)
    • Central Valley Flood Protection Board
    • San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission
  • PowerPoints
    • Agenda Item 5: Council Staff Presentation
    • Agenda Item 5: Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) Metropolitan Transportation Plan and Sustainable Communities Strategy
    • Agenda Item 10: Council Staff Presentation
  • To obtain copies of unlinked meeting materials, please contact archives@deltacouncil.ca.gov for assistance.

• Meeting Notice

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda - REVISED
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 4 - Council Retreat Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • October 2019 Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • By the Numbers Summary (provided at the Council Meeting)
    • Sea level rise forecasted to drown intertidal mudflats in San Pablo Bay
  • Agenda Item 8 - Delta Watermaster Update
  • Agenda Item 9 - Delta Levees Investments Report
    • Department of Water Resources Annual Delta Funding Report
  • Public Comment Letters
    • Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)
  • Outgoing Correspondence
    • Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG)
    • City of Sacramento Community Development Department
    • East San Joaquin Groundwater Authority
  • PowerPoints
    • Agenda Item 6: Council Staff Presentation
    • Agenda Item 6c: Erik Vink, Delta Protection Commission Delta Agricultural Land Cover - 2016
    • Agenda Item 9: Council Staff Presentation
    • Agenda Item 9: DWR Annual Report
    • Agenda Item 10: Delta Watermaster Quarterly Report
  • To obtain copies of unlinked meeting materials, please contact archives@deltacouncil.ca.gov for assistance.

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Meeting Agenda
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 5 - Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 5 - Meeting Summary (REVISED)
  • Agenda Item 7 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • November 2019 Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Active Projects List UPDATED
  • Agenda Item 8 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • By the Numbers Summary (provided at the Council Meeting)
    • Visual Abstract for Linked River Processes tied to Restoration Approaches
  • Agenda Item 10 - Delta Plan Performance Measures: 2019 Year in Review
• Outgoing Correspondence
  • San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority
  • Lathrop Consolidated Treatment Facility