Events Calendar

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Bay-Delta Hydrology 101 Summary
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta ISB Comment’s on the Notice of Preparation for the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Agenda Item 3: August 2020 Summary of DWR’s Update to the Delta ISB on the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Agenda Item 7: Staff Report: Delta Plan Performance Measures 2021 Year in Review
    • Performance Measures Guidebook
    • Performance Measures Dashboard
  • Agenda Item 7: DPIIC Restoration Subcommittee Fact Sheet
  • Agenda Item 8: Delta Lead Scientist Staff Report
  • Agenda Item 9: Delta Science Program’s Request to Review the draft 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda
    • 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda Public Review Draft
  • Agenda Item 9: Delta ISB’s Draft Review of the Draft 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda
  • Agenda Item 10: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review (dated 9/1/21). The Delta ISB received the following public correspondence on this draft report:
    • Richard Norgaard (received 10/8/2021)
    • Ben Bray (received 10/13/2021)
    • Thomas Zuckerman (Central Delta Water Agency) (received 10/14/2021)
    • Central Delta Water Agency (received 10/15/2021)
    • Westlands Water District (received 10/15/2021)
    • State Water Contractors (received 10/15/2021)
    • California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network, Aqualliance, and California Water Research (received 10/15/2021)
  • Agenda Item 12: Planning Future Reviews Summary Document
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
  • Science Needs Assessment Briefing Paper
• Presentations (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 2: Overview of State Water Project and Central Valley Projects by John Leahigh (DWR) and Kristin White (USBR)
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta Conveyance Project Update by Carrie Buckman (DWR)
  • Agenda Item 7: Delta Stewardship Council and Executive Office Chair Report

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of December 16, 2021, Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 5 - Public Comment
    • To view the attachments to this public comment, please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Update
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Delta Stewardship Council 2021 Annual Report
       • 2021 Priorities Progress Memo
       • 2021 Priorities Progress Update
    4. Environmental Justice Issue Paper Update
    5. San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt Letter
       Updated San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Adapt Letter
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Stressors on Fish Communities
  • Agenda Item 8 - Delta Watermaster Update
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 6c - 2021 Annual Report
  • Agenda Item 6d - Environmental Justice Issue Paper
  • Agenda Item 8 - Office of the Delta Watermaster Report
  • Agenda Item 9 - Delta Conveyance Project Update
  • Agenda Item 9 - Delta Conveyance Project Environmental Planning Update

• Save the Date Flyer

• Meeting Agenda
• Video

• Save the date flyer
• Information sheet
• Agenda
• Registration
• Video

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB’s Review of the 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda Review
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta Stewardship Council 2021 Annual Report
  • Agenda Item 3: DPIIC Restoration Subcommittee Fact Sheet
  • Agenda Item 4: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review (dated 9/1/21). The Delta ISB received the following public correspondence on this draft report:
    • Richard Norgaard (received 10/8/2021)
    • Ben Bray (received 10/13/2021)
    • Thomas Zuckerman (Central Delta Water Agency) (received 10/14/2021)
    • Central Delta Water Agency (received 10/15/2021)
    • Westlands Water District (received 10/15/2021)
    • State Water Contractors (received 10/15/2021)
    • California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network, Aqualliance, and California Water Research (received 10/15/2021)
  • Agenda Item 4: Revised Draft Water Supply Reliability Review (dated 2/2/2022)
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Governance Brown Bag Seminar Series
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Science Fellowship
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta ISB Bay-Delta Conservation Plan Chapter Assignments
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta ISB Comment’s on the Notice of Preparation for the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Agenda Item 7: Planning Future Reviews Summary Document
  • Agenda Item 9: Moyle et al. (2018)
    • This report was provided by Dr. Peter Moyle as background reading for the Delta ISB.
• Presentations (Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta Stewardship Council Chair and Executive Officer Report
  • Agenda Item 6: Past Delta ISB Reviews on the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan and California WaterFix
  • Agenda Item 8: Using food web models to support management of the Atlantic menhaden fishery for multi-species benefits by Dr. Andre Buchheister, Humboldt State University
  • Agenda Item 9: Delta Fishes: Key Players in a Novel Ecosystem by Dr. Peter Moyle, UC Davis
• General Correspondence
  • Current controversy over operations of the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project (received 1/12/2022)
  • Comments on 1/13 Delta ISB presentations from Tom Zuckerman (received 1/14/22)
  • Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR): Integrated Climate Adaptation & Resiliency Program (ICARP) Updates from California Water Research (received 1/14/22)
  • Sharing SCC's White Paper on Alternatives to the DCP California Water Research (received 1/19/22)
  • Network weaving in the DPIIC Restoration Subcommittee efforts

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of January 27, 2022, Meeting Summary
    2. Consideration and Possible Approval of an Amendment to a Contract with the University of California, Davis
    3. Consideration and Possible Approval of an Amendment to a Contract with California Sea Grant
       • Agenda Item: 3b and 3c, Attachment 1
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Proposed 2022 Delta Stewardship Council Priorities
       • Attachment 1 - Delta Stewardship Council 2022 Priorities
    4. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy and Delta Protection Commission Updates
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Budgets
  • Agenda Item 8 - Department of Water Resources’ Setback Levee Monitoring Pilot Project
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 6c - Delta Stewardship Council 2022 Priorities
  • Agenda Item 8 - Department of Water Resources’ Setback Levee Monitoring Pilot Project
  • To view the presentation, please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov

• Save the Date Flyer

• Save the date flyer
• Registration
• Video

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 3: Proposed 2022 Delta Stewardship Council Priorities
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 6 - Delta Science Program Assessment of the Impact and Value of the Delta Independent Science Board
  • Agenda Item 7: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review (2/2/22)
  • Agenda Item 7: Draft Monitoring Enterprise Review (10/12/21)
  • Agenda Item 11: Delta Science Program & National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis 2021 Synthesis Working Group
  • Agenda Item 12: Yarnell et al. (2015)
    • Suggested Reading from Dr. Yarnell, as part of presentation.
  • Agenda Item 12: Stein et al. (2021)
    • Suggested Reading from Dr. Yarnell, as part of presentation.
• General Public Correspondence:
  • Bill introduced to mandate DSC do annual water supply reliability estimation for Delta flows from California Water Research (received 2/24/22)
• Presentations (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta Science Program Assessment of the Impact and Value of the Delta Independent Science Board
  • Agenda Item 10: Overview of CDFW Incidental Take Permit on the Long-term Operations of the State Water Project
  • Agenda Item 10: Overview of the NMFS Biological Opinion on the Long-term Operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project
  • Agenda Item 10: Overview of the USFWS Biological Opinion on the Long-term Operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project
  • Agenda Item 11: Delta Science Program and National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Working Group
  • Agenda Item 12: California Environmental Flows Framework
  • Agenda Item 13: Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan
• Background Materials:
  • Delta ISB’s Non-native Species Review

• Meeting Agenda

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of February 24, 2022, Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 7 - Public Comment
  • Agenda Item 8 - Certification of Consistency Number C202110 for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project and Consideration and Possible Dismissal of Issues on Appeal
    • Attachment 2 - Draft Dismissal of Issues on Appeal of the Certification of Consistency by the California Department of Water Resources for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project (Certification Number C202110)
  • Agenda Item 10 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 11 - Consideration of and Possible Delegation of Authority to Approve Ministerial Amendments for Agreements and Increase of Delegated Authority to Award and Execute Agreements
    • Attachment 1 - Resolution 2022-02 Delegation of Authority to the Executive Officer
  • Agenda Item 12 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
  • Agenda Item 13 - Appointment of Members to the Delta Independent Science Board
    • Attachment 1 - Curriculum Vitae - Jayantha TB Obeysekera, Ph.D., P.E., D.WRE, F.EWRI
    • Attachment 2 - Curriculum Vitae - A.M. Michalak
    • Attachment 3 - Curriculum Vitae - Inge Werner, Ph.D.

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Materials:
  • October 18, 2021 Meeting Summary

• Save the Date Flyer

• Day 1 Meeting Notice (Field Tour)
• Day 2 Meeting Notice (In-person Meeting)
• Day 1 Meeting Materials:
  • Dutch Slough Tidal Marsh Restoration Project
  • Big Break Regional Shoreline
  • DWR’s West Delta Program
  • Whale’s Belly Subsidence Reversal Restoration Project
  • Whale’s Mouth Habitat Restoration Project
  • Sherman Island Levee Setback Project (Mayberry Slough)
• Day 2 Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 5: News Release – The Council Appoints New Members to the Delta ISB
  • Agenda Item 7a: Final Monitoring Enterprise Review
  • Agenda Item 7b: Draft Water Supply Reliability Estimation Review (dated 2/2/22)
  • Agenda Item 8: Planning Future Reviews
• Background Materials:
  • Delta Science Strategy
  • Maven’s Notebook: State, Federal Agencies Announcement Agreement with Local Water Suppliers to Improve the Health of Rivers and Landscapes
  • Maven’s Notebook: State, Federal Agencies and Sacramento River Settlement Contractors Agree on Approach for 2022 Water Operations on the Sacramento River
  • Maven’s Notebook: An Update on the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan
• General Public Correspondence:
  • Re: Assessment of the Value and Impact of the Delta ISB from California Water Research (received 3/9/22)
  • Re: Comments on presentations at March 10, 2022 meeting from California Water Research (received 3/18/22)
  • Statutory and Constitutional Transparency Requirements from California Water Research (received 4/5/22)
  • Re: Delta Independent Science Board coordination and administration from California Water Research (received 4/6/22)
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta Science Strategy and Delta ISB Thematic Reviews

• Save the date flyer
• Registration
• Video

• Save the Date Flyer
• Workshop Agenda
• Registration
• Information Sheets:
  • Delta Salinity Management Workshops 2022
  • A Primer on Delta Salinity: Natural and Human Influences
  • Delta Water Management and Regulations
  • Emergency Drought Barriers
  • Franks Tract Futures
• Recording

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of March 24, 2022, Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 8 - Consideration and Possible Adoption of Written Findings Regarding Appeals of the Revised Certification of Consistency Number C202110 for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project
    Revised Agenda Item 8 - Consideration and Possible Adoption of Written Findings Regarding Appeals of the Revised Certification of Consistency Number C202110 for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project
    • Attachment 1 - included in staff report
    • Attachment 2 - Delta Stewardship Council Findings on Appeal of the Revised Certification of Consistency C202110 for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project
      Revised Attachment 2 - Delta Stewardship Council Findings on Appeal of the Revised Certification of Consistency C202110 for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project
    • Attachment 3 - Proposed Determination Regarding Appeals of the Revised Certification of Consistency Number C202110 of the California Department of Water Resources for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project (Revised Certification Number C202110)
    • Attachment 4 - Redline Changes to the Staff Draft Determination on the Appeals of the Certification of Consistency by the California Department of Water Resources for the Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project (Revised Certification Number C202110)
  • Agenda Item 10 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Update
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 11 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 -
    • Attachment 2 - Environmental conditions and Juvenile Chinook salmon antipredator behavior
  • Agenda Item 12 - Presentation from Staff to the Council to Receive for Consideration, and Potentially Accept, the 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda
    • Attachment 1 - 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda
  • Agenda Item 13 - Delta Independent Science Board Update
    • Attachment 1 - Delta ISB Monitoring Enterprise Review

• Save the Date Flyer

• Save the date flyer
• Video

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 3: Outreach Highlights Report
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 4: 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda
  • Agenda Item 5a: Monitoring Enterprise Review Summary Sheet
  • Agenda Item 6: Revised Science Needs Assessment Outline
  • Agenda Item 8: Draft Response to the Delta ISB’s Assessment of the Impact and Value of the Delta ISB
  • Agenda Item 9: Draft Memo from Dr. Lund: Evaluating Best Available Science for Delta Conveyance Proposals
    • Delta ISB Bay Delta Conservation Plan Chapter Assignments
• Background Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta ISB’s Review of the DRAFT Science Action Agenda
  • Agenda Item 5a: Monitoring Enterprise Review (Final)
  • Agenda Item 5b: Water Supply Reliability Review (Draft)
  • Agenda Item 5c: Non-native Species Review (Final)
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative
  • Agenda Item 6: Letter to DPIIC (dated 2/11/2019)
  • Agenda Item 8: Assessment of the Impact and Value of the Delta ISB

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of April 28, 2022, Meeting Summary
    2. Consider Resolution #2022-04 to approve the following:
       1. Consideration and Possible Approval of an Amendment to a Contract with AECOM
       2. Consideration and Possible Approval of an Amendment to a Contract with Stantec Consulting Services, inc.
       3. Consideration and Possible Approval of a Contract with the University of California, Davis
       • Attachment 1 - Delta Stewardship Council Resolution 2022-04 Consent Calendar Contracting Requests
  • Lead Scientist's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report

• Revised Day 1-2 Meeting Notice
• Day 3 Meeting Notice (Tour)
• Day 1-2 Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB Comment’s on the Notice of Preparation for the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta Conveyance Update Summary (August 2020)
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta Conveyance Update Summary (January 2022)
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta Conveyance Project Environmental Impact Report Preliminary Page Counts
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta ISB Bay-Delta Conservation Plan Chapter Assignments
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta Plan 1a: Best Available Science
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta Plan Appendix C: Adaptive Management and the Delta Plan
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta ISB Response to the Delta Science Program Assessment
  • Agenda Item 7: April 2022 Outreach Highlights Report
  • Agenda Item 7: Council’s April 2022 Legislative Report
  • Agenda Item 9: Delta ISB Operating Guidelines
  • Agenda Item 11a: Delta ISB Non-native Species Review
  • Agenda Item 11b: Delta ISB Monitoring Enterprise Review
  • Agenda Item 11c: Delta ISB Water Supply Reliability Review
  • Agenda Item 12c: Discussion Topic – Environmental Flows and a Resilient Delta
• Day 3 Meeting Materials:
  • Jones Pumping Plant and Tracy Fish Collection Facility Information Sheet
  • Fish Conservation and Culture Lab Website
  • Delta Cross Channel Information Sheet
• General Public Correspondence:
  • Background information on conflict over Voluntary Agreement Framework from California Water Research (received 5/18/2022)
  • Major California Senate proposal involving the Delta Independent Science Board and unresolved governance issues from California Water Research (received 5/25/2022)
  • Re: Please provide full support for the Delta Independent Science Board in this year’s budget negotiations (received 5/31/2022)
  • JUNE 2: Budgeting for Climate Resilience in California w/ Senator Bob Wieckowski from California Water Research (received 6/1/2022)
  • The Delta Conveyance Project is NOT a solution to drought and climate change from various individual (received 6/6 to 6/7/2022)
• Presentations (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov):
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta Conveyance Project Update by the California Department of Water Resources
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta Plan: Best Available Science Framework
  • Agenda Item 13a: Swimming upstream: A Year with the Delta Science Program by Allegra La Ferr, California Sea Grant State Fellow
  • Agenda Item 13b: Out of the Woods and into the Delta by Kristine Grace Cabugao, Delta ISB Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Agenda Item 13c: Anadromous Science: Researching Climate Change from the Ocean to the Delta by Lillian McCormick, Delta ISB Postdoctoral Scholar

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Public Comment
    • Response to the Delta Science Program’s Assessment of the Impact and Value of the Delta Independent Science Board
  • Agenda Item 7 - Public Hearing, Consideration, and Possible Approval of the Final Program Environmental Impact Report for the Revised Chapter 4 of the Delta Plan
    • Attachment 1 - Resolution 2022-05
      • Exhibit A - Final Ecosystem Amendment Program Environmental Impact Report
      • Draft Environmental Impact Report
      • Exhibit B - Findings and a Statement of Overriding Considerations
      • Exhibit C - Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program
  • Agenda Item 9 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of May 26, 2022, Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 12 - Delta Independent Science Board Update
    • Attachment 1 - Review of Water Supply Reliability Estimation Related to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
  • Agenda Item 13 - Executive Officer's Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 14 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Relationships between water temperature and estuarine inflow

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 3: Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 3: Outreach Highlights Report
  • Agenda Item 4: Questions to DWR
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta ISB Comment’s on the Notice of Preparation for the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Conveyance Update Summary (August 2020)
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Conveyance Update Summary (January 2022)
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Conveyance Project Environmental Impact Report Preliminary Page Counts
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Conveyance Update Summary (June 2022)
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Conveyance Project EIR Review Template
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Conveyance Project Chapter Assignments Draft
    • Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 7: Operating Guidelines
  • Agenda Item 7: Proposed Amendments to the Operating Guidelines
  • Agenda Item 8c: Final Water Supply Reliability Estimation Review Report
  • Agenda Item 8c: Final Water Supply Reliability Estimation Review Summary Sheet
• General Public Correspondence:
  • Re: Legislature approves audit of 2021 runoff forecasts and drought preparation by DWR and the Water Board from California Water Research (received June 30, 2022)
  • The Delta Conveyance Project is NOT a solution to drought and climate change from various individuals
    • Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
• Presentations (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov):
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Conveyance Project Update by the California Department of Water Resources
  • Agenda Item 7: Operating Guidelines

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Materials:
  • March 28, 2022 Meeting Summary
  • 2020-2021 Delta Crosscut Budget Report

• Meeting Notice
• Review Web Page

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar (includes Resolution 2022-06)
    1. Adoption of June 23, 2022, Meeting Summary
    2. Contract Amendment with the Regents of the University of California San Diego, California Sea Grant for the 2020 Class of Delta Science Fellows and 2020/2021 Classes of State Policy Fellows
       • Attachment 1 - Consent Calendar Contracting Requests
  • Agenda Item 9 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Quarterly Contract Report
    • Comments on Draft Environmental Impact Report for the City of Lathrop General Plan, SCH#2021100139
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 10 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
  • Agenda Item 11 - 2022 Science Fellows Cohort Introduction
    • Attachment 1 - Delta Science Fellows 2022 Award Recipients
  • Agenda Item 12 - San Joaquin Council of Governments 2022 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy Comment Letter
    • Attachment 1 - Comments on Draft 2022 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy and Draft Environmental Impact Report SCH# 2020120482
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 11 - 2022 Delta Science Fellows
  • Agenda Item 12 - To view the presentation, please email engage@deltacouncil.ca.gov

• Day 1 Meeting Notice (August 11, 2022)
• Day 2 Meeting/Tour Notice (August 12, 2022)
• Proposed Tour Agenda (August 12, 2022)
• Day 1 Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Revised Operating Guidelines
  • Agenda Item 3: Outreach Highlights Report (June 2022)
  • Agenda Item 3: Legislative Report (July 2022)
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report (July 2022)
  • Agenda Item 4: Collaborative Adaptive Management Team: Assessment of Reviews of Long-term Monitoring Programs and Objectives
  • Agenda Item 4: San Francisco Estuary Blueprint
  • Agenda Item 5: Anticipating California Delta Futures
  • Agenda Item 7: Draft Work Plan
  • Agenda Item 9b: Monitoring Enterprise Review Journal Draft
  • Agenda Item 10: Delta Plan Chapter 4 Amendment (Protect, Restore, and Enhance the Delta Ecosystem)
  • Agenda Item 10: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Final Environmental Impact Report
  • Agenda Item 11: Draft Delta Conveyance Project Environmental Impact Report
  • Agenda Item 11: Delta ISB Delta Conveyance Project Review Template
  • Agenda Item 11: Delta ISB Delta Conveyance Project EIR Review Chapter Assignments
• Day 2 Meeting Materials:
  • State Water Project Facilities Website
  • Jones Pumping Plant and Tracy Fish Collection Facility Information Sheet
  • Fish Conservation and Culture Lab Website
• General Correspondence:
  • Blog post: The eye of the storm and the State Water Resources Control Board from California Water Research (received July 19, 2022)
  • EIR Tunnel Review from Tom Zuckerman (received July 19, 2022)
  • Please clarify the peer review process for the design and proposed operations of the Delta Conveyance project from California Water Research (received July 25, 2022)
  • Re: Best Available Science for “Delta as Place” Considerations in Delta Conveyance Project EIR from the Delta Protection Commision (received August 6, 2020)
    • Attachment from the Delta Protection Commission
    • This was received in August 2020. On July 26, 2022, the Delta Protection Commission asked for this public correspondence to be re-circulated.
  • Availability of DCP Engineering Product Reports and Technical Memos from California Water Research (received August 2, 2022)
  • The Delta Conveyance Project is NOT a solution to drought and climate change from various individuals
    • Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
  • EIR Delta Conveyance from Tom Slater (received August 8, 2022)
    • Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
• Presentations (Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 10: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment by the Delta Stewardship Council

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of July 28, 2022, Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 6 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    • Active Projects List
    • Comments on National Register Posting COE-2022-006-0001 - Proposed Modernization of Army Civil Works Policy Priorities
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
    3. Executive Fellow Debrief
    4. 2023 Delta Plan Five-Year Review Approach
    5. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy and Delta Protection Commission Update
  • Agenda Item 7 - Lead Scientist’s Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Climate change impacts environmental and ecological patterns at various scales within the San Francisco Estuary
  • Agenda Item 8 - San Francisco Estuary Blueprint
  • Agenda Item 9 - Environmental Justice Issue Paper Interview Results
    • Attachment 1 - Summary of Delta Environmental Justice Interviews
    • Attachment 2 - Review of Environmental Justice Comments - Preliminary Results
  • Presentations:
    • August 2022 Environmental Justice Issue Paper

• Meeting Notice
• Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee Restoration Subcommittee Draft Work Plan

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 3: Water Supply Reliability Estimation Blog
  • Agenda Item 4: Legislative Update (August 2022)
  • Agenda Item 4: Outreach Highlights Report (July 2022)
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee Restoration Subcommittee Draft Work Plan
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Lead Scientist Report (August 2022)
  • Agenda Item 6: Draft Delta Conveyance Project Environmental Impact Report
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta ISB Delta Conveyance Project Review Template
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta ISB Delta Conveyance Project EIR Review Chapter Assignments
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta Conveyance Project Draft EIR Virtual Public Hearings Information
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta ISB Extension Request Letter
  • Agenda Item 6: REVISED Delta Conveyance Project Draft EIR Review Outline
• General Public Correspondence:
  • 2022 Draft EIR Links from Osha Meserve to the Delta Independent Science Board (received 8/11/2022)
  • California Water Research Blog Posts and Technical Information on the Delta Conveyance Project (received 9/9/12)
  • Matt Conover provide an oral comment on 9/12 to staff for the Delta ISB to review the Huang and Swain (2022) article, as the Delta ISB completes the Delta Conveyance Project EIR Review.
  • The Delta Conveyance Project is NOT a solution to drought and climate change from various individuals
    • Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 6 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of August 25, 2022, Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 9 - Executive Officer’s Report
    • Outgoing Correspondence:
      • Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the West False River Drought Salinity Barrier Project
      • Comments on Notice of Preparation of a Program Environmental Impact Report for the Yolo Bypass Cache Slough Partnership Multibenefit Program Master Plan, SCH #
      • Comments on Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the Proposed Regulation to Implement Lower San Joaquin River Flows and Southern Delta Salinity Objectives in the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, SCH#2022080184
    • Outreach Highlights Report
    1. Legal Update
    2. Legislative Update
  • Agenda Item 10 - Lead Scientist's Report
    • Attachment 1 - By the Numbers
    • Attachment 2 - Climate Whiplash in the San Francisco Estuary: Residence time and water temperature are key correlates to Microcystis bloom amplitude
    • Attachment 3 - Adult Sturgeon Mortality and Life History in the San Francisco Estuary
    • Attachment 4 - Sturgeon Carcass Reporting: What’s that smell?
  • Agenda Item 11 - Delta Watermaster Update
  • Agenda Item 12 - Workshop: Draft Amendments to Administrative Procedures Governing Appeals
    • Attachment 1 - Appeals Regulations
    • Attachment 2 - Proposed Amendments to the Administrative Procedures Governing Appeals
    • Attachment 3 - Comment Letters
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 10 - HAB Progression August 2022
  • Agenda Item 11 - Office of the Delta Watermaster Report
  • Agenda Item 12 - Draft Amendments to Administrative Procedures Governing Appeals

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• Info Sheet

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• Notice
• Registration

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: Adaptive Management Forum Agenda
  • Agenda Item 4: Steelhead Workshop Flyer
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 5: Draft Science Needs Assessment Recommendations
• Presentation (Available upon request by e-mailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Background Materials:
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Component 1 Summary
  • Science Needs Assessment Briefing Paper
  • Delta ISB Letter to DPIIC on the urgency and opportunities for improving Delta interagency science
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Draft Delta ISB 2021 Workplan
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB Workplan Discussion Presentation (Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Non-native species Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Science Needs Assessment Briefing Paper

• 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)

• Save the Date
• Registration
• Agenda
• Recordings

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 3: 2020 Delta Stewardship Council Annual Report
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Adapts Draft Vulnerability Assessment
  • Agenda Item 6: Draft Science Needs Assessment Proposal to the Delta Plan Interagency Implementation Committee (2/10/21)
  • Agenda Item 7: Water Supply Reliability Review Outline (2/1/21)
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Adapts Draft Vulnerability Assessment Presentation (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report
  • Science Needs Assessment Briefing Paper

• Agenda
• Registration
• Save the Date Flyer
• Videos
• Fact Sheets:
  • Workshop Objectives and Regulatory Background
  • Oncorhynchus mykiss Monitoring and Research Gap Analysis
  • Life-History Variation in Oncorhynchus mykiss
  • California Central Valley Steelhead Distinct Population Segment Factsheet
• Workshop Summary

• 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

• Save the date flyer
• Registration

• Save the date flyer
• Registration

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 5: Draft Delta ISB Workplan
• Background Materials:
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Science Action Agenda
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report
  • Science Needs Assessment Briefing Paper

• Meeting Agenda
• Agenda Item 1 - Welcome and Introductions
  • Summary of the October 26, 2020 DPIIC Meeting
• Report Out: Science Needs Assessment

• 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)

• View the Bay-Delta Science Conference web page

• Save the Date Flyer

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Public Comments
  • Comment Letter from California Water Research: Re: Request that Item #4 be “Informational Only,” that consideration of Item #5 be postponed, that a briefing on the proposed legislation affecting the Delta Independent Science Board (DISB) be put on the next agenda.
• Presentations (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 2: Reflections from Delta ISB Fellow
  • Agenda Item 4: Initial Findings from the Delta ISB Assessment by the Delta Science Program
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta Lead Scientist Report

• 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:
  • Agenda Item 4: Approaches to Future Delta ISB Reviews

• Save the Date Flyer

• 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
  • Final Thematic Program Review Report: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta
  • Agenda Item 6: Delta Lead Scientist Report

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• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Final Thematic Program Review Report: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta
  • Agenda Item 2: Summary Sheet: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB Article: Preparing Scientists, Policy-Makers, and Managers for a Fast-Forward Future
• Agenda Item 5b: Excerpts of the Delta ISB’s Water Supply Reliability Review (dated 6/9/21)
• Agenda Item 6: Approaches to Future Delta ISB Reviews
• Public Comments:
  • Comment Letter from California Water Research: Update on SB 821 regarding Delta ISB contracts, CWR comment letter
    • Attachment: Re: SB 821 (Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee)—Support/Amend
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 4: “From the Delta and back again” by Jennica Moffat (available by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report

• 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 Agenda
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 1 - Summary of the March 15, 2021 DPIIC meeting
  • Agenda Item 3 - FY 2019-2020 Delta Crosscut Budget

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Stewardship Council Staff Report on Contract with the University of California, San Diego, California SeaGrant
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 5: Stakeholder Views of the Delta ISB
  • Agenda Item 6b: Monitoring Enterprise Review Excerpts (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Public Comments:
  • Discussion of Delta ISB situation at June 24, 2021 DSC Meeting” from California Water Research (received June 29, 2021)
  • Public comments at 6/24/21 Delta Stewardship Council meeting regarding DISB funding” from Regional San
  • SB 821 amended to increase compensation & add urgency clause from California Water Research
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary

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• Registration

• Save the Date Flyer

• 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:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta Protection Commission on Senate Bill 821
    • Delta Protection Commission Staff Report
    • Delta Protection Commission Draft Support Letter on Senate Bill 821
      • Delta Protection Commission Final Support Letter on Senate Bill 821
  • Agenda Item 3: Monitoring Enterprise Review Excerpts (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Public Correspondence:
  • Re: SB 821 (Committee on Natural Resources and Water): Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Delta Independent Science Board - REQUEST FOR SIGNATURE from the Delta Counties Coalition (received July 14, 2021)
  • July 28-30: White House Listening Sessions on Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking from California Water Research (received July 24, 2021)
  • Update: Delta Protection Commission vote on SB 821 position, Water Board Chair expresses support, comments to White House listening session from California Water Research (received August 4, 2021)
• Presentations (available by request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov):
  • Overview of the United States Geological Survey by Mike Chotkowksi
  • Overview of the NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center by Rachel Johnson
  • Overview of the United States Bureau of Reclamation by Joshua Israel
  • Overview of the California Department of Water Resources by Lenny Grimaldo
  • Overview of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife by Carl Wilcox
• Background Materials:
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary

• Flyer

• 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

• Save the Date Flyer

• Visit the California Sea Grant web page to access event details.
• Attendance is free with registration.
• Recording

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Stewardship Council Staff Report (July 2021) on the Contract for Delta ISB Post-Doctoral Scholars
  • Agenda Item 7: Draft Monitoring Enterprise Review (dated 9/8/2021)
  • Agenda Item 8: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review for Public Comments (dated 9/1/2021)
• Public Correspondence:
  • The ISB Monitoring Enterprise Review from the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta (received August 26, 2021)
  • On scientific confluence and the challenges of avoiding a ghastly future in California water from California Water Research (received September 15, 2021)
  • Thank you for Your Service from Heinrich Albert (received September 16, 2021)
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 9: Overview of the Delta Science Program by Dr. Laurel Larsen (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary

• 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

• Save the Date Flyer

• Registration
• Flyer
• Draft Agenda

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 1: Summary of July 12, 2021 DPIIC Meeting
  • Agenda Item 3: DPIIC Restoration Subcommittee Fact Sheet

• Revised Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: 2021 Delta Invasive Species Symposium
  • Agenda Item 3: DPIIC Restoration Subcommittee Fact Sheet
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report
  • Agenda Item 4: Adapting Restoration for a Changing Climate Symposium Flyer
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Governance Survey
  • Agenda Item 5: Draft Monitoring Enterprise Review (dated 10/12/21)
  • Agenda Item 6: Stakeholder Views of the Delta ISB
  • Agenda Item 8: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review (dated 9/1/21)
• Public Correspondence:
  • Prior to the Delta ISB’s October 19, 2021, meeting, the Delta ISB received the following public correspondence:
    • Letter to Delta ISB members re SB 821 and next steps from California Water Research (received 10/13/2021)
    • Data on recreational users of the delta from Francis Coats (received 10/13/2021)
  • In addition, the Delta ISB received the following public correspondence on its water supply reliability review (dated 9/1/2021):
    • Richard Norgaard (received 10/8/2021)
    • Ben Bray (received 10/13/2021)
    • Thomas Zuckerman (Central Delta Water Agency) (received 10/14/2021)
    • Central Delta Water Agency (received 10/15/2021)
      • Attachment 1: Recommendations for an Effective Water Change
      • Attachment 2: Delta Water Facilities
        • Both attachments available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
    • Westlands Water District (received 10/15/2021)
    • State Water Contractors (received 10/15/2021)
      • Attachment: Table of Comments
        • Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
    • California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network, Aqualliance, and California Water Research (received 10/15/2021)
• Presentations (Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report by Laurel Larsen
  • Agenda Item 7: Delta Independent Science Board Reinvigorated by Steve Brandt
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary

• Attendance is free with registration.
• Video

• 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

• Save the Date Flyer

• Visit the California Sea Grant web page to access event details.
• Video

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB Postdoctoral Scholar Recruitment Flyer
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB Member Recruitment Flyer
  • Agenda Item 4: Draft Assessment of the Impact and Value of the Delta Independent Science Board
  • Agenda Item 8: Draft Monitoring Enterprise Review (dated 10/12/21)
    • Steve Culberson (received 11/9/2021)
    • Stacy Sherman (received 11/12/2021)
    • Regional San (received 11/12/2021)
    • State Water Contractors (received 11/12/2021)
  • Agenda Item 9: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review (dated 9/1/21). The Delta ISB received the following public correspondence on this draft report.
    • Richard Norgaard (received 10/8/2021)
    • Ben Bray (received 10/13/2021)
    • Thomas Zuckerman (Central Delta Water Agency) (received 10/14/2021)
    • Central Delta Water Agency (received 10/15/2021)
      • Attachment 1: Recommendations for an Effective Water Change
      • Attachment 2: Delta Water Facilities
        • Both attachments available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
  • Westlands Water District (received 10/15/2021)
  • State Water Contractors (received 10/15/2021)
    • Attachment: Table of Comments
      • Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov
  • California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network, Aqualliance, and California Water Research (received 10/15/2021)
• General Public Correspondence
  • ISB from Francis Coats (received on 10/31/2021)
  • Notes from California Delegation briefing from COP26 from California Water Research (received 11/15/2021)
• Presentations (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 3: Planning Retreat Overview by Stephen Brandt
  • Agenda Item 4: Draft Assessment of the Delta ISB by the Delta Science Program
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
  • 2017 Planning Retreat Summary
  • 2020 Planning Document

• 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

• Visit the California Sea Grant web page to access event details.
• Video

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta Invasive Species Symposium
  • Agenda Item 5a: Draft Monitoring Enterprise Review (dated 10/12/21). The Delta ISB received the following public correspondence on this draft report:
    • Steve Culberson (received 11/9/2021)
    • Stacy Sherman (received 11/12/2021)
    • Regional San (received 11/12/2021)
    • State Water Contractors (received 11/12/2021)
    • Delta Protection Commission (received December 11/18/2021)
  • Agenda Item 5b: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review (dated 9/1/21). The Delta ISB received the following public correspondence on this draft report:
    • Richard Norgaard (received 10/8/2021)
    • Ben Bray (received 10/13/2021)
    • Thomas Zuckerman (Central Delta Water Agency) (received 10/14/2021)
    • Central Delta Water Agency (received 10/15/2021)
    • Westlands Water District (received 10/15/2021)
    • State Water Contractors (received 10/15/2021)
    • California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network, Aqualliance, and California Water Research (received 10/15/2021)
  • Agenda Item 7: Delta Science Program’s Request to Review the draft 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda
    • 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda Public Review Draft
• General Public Correspondence
  • Comments on Integrated conceptual models of the Delta ecosystem from California Water Research (received 11/16/2021)
• Presentations (available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Report by Dr. Laurel Larsen
  • Agenda Item 7: Science Action Agenda by Rachael Klopfenstein and Henry DeBey
• Background Materials:
  • Water Supply Reliability Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary

• 2021 Delta Invasive Species Symposium Flyer

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Binder Memo
  • Agenda Item 3 - Consent Calendar
    1. Adoption of October 28, 2021, Meeting Summary
    2. Approval of a Contract Amendment with Michigan State University (Agreement #18209)
    3. Approval of a Contract Amendment with the United States Geological Survey (Agreement #18202)
  • 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 - Pre-pulse and Post-pulse conditions in Cache Slough Complex and Lower Sacramento River
  • Agenda Item 8 - Science Action Agenda Update
    • Attachment 1 - 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda Public Review Draft
  • Agenda Item 9 - Great Delta Trail Master Plan
  • Agenda Item 10 - Performance Measures 2021 Year in Review
    • Attachment 1 - Delta Plan Performance Measures Guidebook
• Public Comment Letters:
  • Lookout Slough Tidal Habitat Restoration and Flood Improvement Project
• Outgoing Correspondence:
  • Comments on Draft Supplemental EA/IS for the Yolo Bypass East Levee Project, SCH# 201110114
• Presentations:
  • Agenda Item 6 - Delta Adapts Update
  • Agenda Item 8 - Science Action Agenda 2022-2026
  • Agenda Item 9 - Draft Great California Delta Trail Master Plan
  • Agenda Item 10 - Delta Plan Performance Measures 2021 Year in Review

• Save the date flyer

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 5: Preliminary Draft Delta Plan Chapter 4 (Protect, Restore, and Enhance the Delta Ecosystem)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix Q2 (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix 3a (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix 4a (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix 8a (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix E (Delta Plan Amendments)
  • Agenda Item 5: Draft Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Performance Measure Datasheets
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.6
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.12
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.13
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.14
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.15
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.16
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta ISB Discussion on the Public Draft of the Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment
  • Agenda Item 6 and 7: Draft Social Science Strategy for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
  • Agenda Item 8b: Revised “Ecology During Rapid Environmental Change” Discussion Paper (dated 11/25/19)
  • Agenda Item 8c: Final Delta ISB Review on the Interagency Ecological Program

• Meeting Agenda

• 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
• Brown Bag Seminar Video

• Pre-register by January 17
• Event details

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: 2019 Council Accomplishments and Proposed 2021-2022
    • Attachment 1: Council Priorities 2020-2021 Memo
    • Attachment 2: 2019 Annual Report
    • Attachment 3: Proposed 2020-2021 Milestone Schedule
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta ISB Draft Memo on Review of the Draft Social Science Strategy
  • Agenda Item 5: Draft Social Science Strategy for the Sacramento and San Joaquin Delta
  • Agenda Item 6b: Final Delta ISB IEP Review
  • Agenda Item 10: Delta ISB Panel Discussion Paper (“Toward a Preemptive Ecology for Rapid, Global, and Increasingly Irreversible Environmental Change”)
  • Agenda Item 13: Preliminary Draft Delta Plan Chapter 4 (Protect, Restore, and Enhance the Delta Ecosystem)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix Q2 (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix 3a (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix 4a (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix 8a (Delta Plan Amendments)
    • Preliminary Draft Appendix E (Delta Plan Amendments)
  • Agenda Item 10: Panel Responses to Delta ISB Discussion Paper
  • Agenda Item 10: Panelist Profiles
  • Agenda Item 13: Delta ISB Draft Memo on Review of the Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment
  • Agenda Item 13: Draft Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Performance Measure Datasheets
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.6
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.12
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.13
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.14
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.15
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.16
  • Agenda Item 13: Independent Scientific Review of Preliminary Public Review Draft of Delta Plan Chapter 4 Performance Measure
    • Anna Sturrock Comments on Performance Measure 4.6 and 4.13
    • John G. Williams Comments on Performance Measures 4.6 and 4.13
    • Rebecca Buchanan Comments on Performance Measures 4.6 and 4.13
    • Josh Collins Comments on Performance Measures 4.12, 4.15, and 4.16
    • Kristin Byrd Comments on Performance Measures 4.12, 4.15, and 4.16
    • Stephen Crooks Comments on Performance Measures 4.12, 4.15, and 4.16
  • Agenda Item 14: Planning Future Reviews Summary
  • Agenda Item 1tem 14: Stakeholder Feedback on Future Delta ISB Reviews

• Symposium recording
• Symposium flyer
• Registration
• Agenda
• Speaker biographies

• 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 Agenda
• Revised Meeting Agenda
• Video
• Critical Needs for Control of Invasive Aquatic Vegetation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
• Meeting Materials
  • Agenda Item 3 - Ecosystem-based Management and the Delta Plan
    • A Path Forward for California’s Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Agenda Item 4 - Critical Needs for Aquatic Weed Control
    • Reference Sheet
  • Agenda Item 5 - Social Science Task Force
• Meeting Summary

• Agenda

  10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - Council Headquarters (715 P Street, 15-300, Sacramento, CA 95814)
  1:00 PM - 3:00 PM - Walnut Grove Library (14177 Market Street, Walnut Grove, CA 95690)
  4:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Big Break Center (69 Big Break Road, Oakley, CA 94561)

• Draft Public Participation Plan

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Brown Bag Seminar Recording

For more information, please visit the Delta Lead Scientist webpage.

• Meeting Notice
• Revised Meeting Notice
• Brown Bag Seminar Recording

For more information, please visit the Delta Lead Scientist webpage.

• Event website

• Meeting Notice (Revised 3/19/2020)
• WebEx
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Final Memo - Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Review
  • Agenda Item 2: Final Memo - Draft Social Science Strategy Review
  • Agenda Item 3: Draft Delta Stewardship Council Public Participation Plan
  • Agenda Item 4: Prospectus for Assessment of Delta ISB Recommendations
  • Communication Product (Poster): A Review of the Interagency Ecological Program’s Ability to Provide Science Supporting Management of the Delta
    • This poster was designed for printing on 38 inch by 48 inch sized paper.
  • Agenda Item 7c: Briefing Paper for the 2020 Science Needs Assessment Workshop
  • Agenda Item 7d: Draft Memo - Summary of Discussion on Ecology During Rapid Environmental Change
• Background Material:
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Ecosystems Review Prospectus
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Delta Lead Scientist Web Page

• Registration
• Draft Public Participation Plan

• 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 (Revised 3/24/2020)
• Brown Bag Seminar Recording

• Meeting Notice
• WebEx
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: Council Staff Report on Consideration of a Contract with the United States Geological Survey to Fund Operation Baseline 2.0 Investigations
  • Operation Baseline (One pager)
  • Agenda Item 5: Draft Memo on Delta Science During Rapid Environmental Change
  • Agenda Item 5: Public Comment Letter from California Water Research (dated 3/30/20)
• Background Materials:
  • Science Needs Assessment Workshop Briefing Paper
  • Ecosystems Review Prospectus
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Final Review of the Interagency Ecological Program
  • Delta Lead Scientist Web Page
• Recorded Seminars of Delta Lead Scientist Applicants:
  • January 27: Dr. Jay Lund
  • March 9: Dr. Denise Reed
  • March 12: Dr. Lisamarie Windham-Myers
  • March 30: Dr. Laurel Larsen

• Workshop and Virtual Discussion Series flyer
• Briefing Paper for the 2020 Science Needs Assessment Workshop
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 1 Recording
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 1 Summary

• 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
• WebEx
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Memorandum: Preparing for Accelerating and Uncertain Environmental Change
  • Agenda Item 2: Letter: Notice of Preparation for the Delta Conveyance Project
  • Agenda Item 4: A Social Science Strategy for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
  • Agenda Item 5a: Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
  • Agenda Item 5a: Monitoring Enterprise Review Questionnaire
  • Agenda Item 5c: Draft Water Supply Reliability Review Outline
  • Agenda Item 5d: Science Needs Assessment Discussion 1 Recording
  • Agenda Item 5d: Science Needs Assessment Mentimeter Results
  • Agenda Item 7: Potential Review Topics
  • Agenda Item 8: Operation Guidelines
• Background Materials:
  • Science Needs Assessment Save-the-Date Flyer
  • Ecosystems Review Prospectus
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Final Review of the Interagency Ecological Program
• Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Materials (from the Council’s May 1, 2020 Meeting):
  • Council Staff Report: 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

• Notice of Preparation
• View the Scoping Meeting on YouTube

• Workshop and Virtual Discussion Series flyer
• Briefing Paper for the 2020 Science Needs Assessment Workshop
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 2 Recording
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 2 Summary

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: 2022 to 2026 Science Action Agenda Information Sheet
  • Agenda Item 4: 2022 to 2026 Science Action Agenda Screening Criteria
  • Agenda Item 4: Social Science for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Brown Bag Webinar Series
  • Agenda Item 5: Operating Guidelines
  • Agenda Item 5: Proposed Amendments
  • Agenda Item 7a: Draft Ecosystems Review
  • Agenda Item 7b: Monitoring Enterprise Review Questionnaire (Deadline Extended until June 19, 2020)
• Background Materials:
  • Science Needs Assessment Save-the-Date Flyer
  • Ecosystems Review Prospectus
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
  • Final Review of the Interagency Ecological Program

• Series flyer

• Series flyer

• Series flyer

• Series flyer

• 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

• Public Hearing Notice

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Operating Guidelines (revised June 12, 2020)
  • Agenda Item 3: Council Public Participation Plan (Council Endorsement Draft)
  • Agenda Item 4: News Release - Delta ISB Appointments
  • Agenda Item 4: Visual Abstract -- Large Contribution from Anthropogenic Warming to an Emerging North American Megadrought
  • Agenda Item 5a: Draft Review Report -- The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta
  • Agenda Item 6: Virtual Conferences Guide to Best Practices from the Association for Computing Machinery
  • Agenda Item 6: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Virtual Collaboration Webpage
• Background Materials:
  • Science Needs Assessment Save-the-Date Flyer
  • Prospectus: Delta Science Program Assessment of Delta ISB Recommendations
  • Ecosystems Review Prospectus
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
  • Final Review of the Interagency Ecological Program

• Revised Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 1 - Welcome and Introductions
    • Summary of the March 2, 2020 DPIIC meeting
  • Agenda Item 2 - Ecosystem-based Management
    • Delta Plan Performance Measures
    1. Central Valley Project Improvement Act
    2. Incidental Take Permit for the State Water Project
  • Agenda Item 3 - Actions to Achieve Ongoing, Consistent and Reliable Science Funding
    • 2022-2026 Science Action Agenda
    1. Science Approaches during Increasingly Rapid Environmental Change
    2. Linking Science Efforts to Policy and Decision-Making
    3. Effective Use of Current Science Funding
       • FY 2018-2019 Delta Crosscut Budget Report

• 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

• Workshop and Virtual Discussion Series Flyer
• Briefing Paper for the 2020 Science Needs Assessment Workshop
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 3 Recording
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 3 Presentation
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 3 Summary

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4b: Planning Future Science Reviews
  • Agenda Item 5a: Draft Report: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta
  • Agenda Item 6b: Draft Rapid Change Article (dated 8/10/2020)
  • Agenda Item 9b: Delta Protection Commission Letter on Best Available Science for “Delta as Place” Considerations in Delta Conveyance Project EIR
    • Delta Protection Commission Letter Attachment
  • Background Materials:
    • Science Needs Assessment Save-the-Date Flyer
    • Prospectus: Delta Science Program Assessment of Delta ISB Recommendations
    • Ecosystems Review Prospectus
    • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
    • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
    • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
    • Final Review of the Interagency Ecological Program

• 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

• Save the Date Flyer
• Agenda
• Videos
• Fact Sheets
  • Management Brief
  • Life History Variation in Central Valley Spring-run Chinook
  • Monitoring of Central Valley Spring-run Chinook Salmon
  • Identifying Spring-run
  • Developing a Juvenile Production Estimate (JPE) for Spring-run Salmon
• Workshop Summary

• Workshop and Virtual Discussion Series Flyer
• Briefing Paper for the 2020 Science Needs Assessment Workshop
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 4 Recording
• Science Needs Assessment Pre-Workshop Discussion Part 4 Summary

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB Reflections
  • Agenda Item 4: Public Comment Draft: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta (7/14/2020)
  • Agenda Item 4: Revised Draft Report: The Science of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta (dated 9/8/2020)
  • Agenda Item 4: Public Comment Letters
    • Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District (received 8/20/2020)
      • Attachment: Bauer, Marissa. 2010. An Ecosystem Model of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Bay, California USA. Master’s Thesis, California State University, Chico (Available upon request by emailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov)
    • Bob Peoples (received 8/24/2020)
• Background Materials:
  • Ecosystems Review Prospectus
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Prospectus
  • Monitoring Enterprise Review Component 1 Summary
  • Final Review of the Interagency Ecological Program
  • Science Needs Assessment Save-the-Date Flyer
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report

• 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

• Flyer
• Registration
• Workshop Agenda

• Background Materials:
  • Flyer
  • Briefing Paper
  • Draft Article: Preparing for a Fast-forward Future in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
• Recordings:
  • Pre-Workshop Virtual Discussion Series Recordings
  • Science Needs Assessment Workshop Recording

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4 - Science Needs Assessment Workshop Recording
• Background Materials:
  • Science Needs Assessment Briefing Paper
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report
  • Water Supply Reliability Review Prospectus

• 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 Agenda
• Summary of the July 13, 2020 DPIIC meeting
• Video
• Presentations:
  • Building an Effective Delta Science Enterprise: Long-Term Science Needs Assessment Workshop
  • Agenda Item 3 - Delta Adapts: Creating a Climate Resilient Future

• Flyer
• Registration
• Program
• Videos

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • The Science Of Non-native Species in a Dynamic Delta
• Background Materials:
  • Ecosystems Review Prospectus

• 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

• Meeting Notice
• Registration

• Meeting Notice
• Zoom Registration
  • To join the webcast, please register before the meeting via Zoom.
  • After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions to join the webcast. If you have a computer microphone, you will have the option to receive audio and provide oral comments through your computer. If not, please dial the phone number listed in your confirmation email.
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta Science Program Prospectus for Assessment of Delta ISB Recommendations (dated 11/23/20)
    • Delta Independent Science Board Assessment Survey
  • Agenda Item 4: Science Needs Assessment Draft Outline
• Presentations (Available by e-mailing disb@deltacouncil.ca.gov):
  • Agenda Item 3: Harmful Algal Blooms Panel Discussion
• Background Materials:
  • Science Needs Assessment Briefing Paper
  • Delta ISB Letter to DPIIC on the urgency and opportunities for improving Delta interagency science
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report

• 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:
  • Agenda Item 7: Revised IEP Review Draft (6/14/19)
  • Agenda Item #7: IEP Review Alternative Recommendations
  • Agenda Item #9: Speaker Bio
  • Agenda Item 10a: Monitoring Enterprise Review Workshop Summary
  • Agenda Item #10b: Water Supply Reliability Review Outline
  • Agenda Item #10b: Water Supply Reliability Review Interview Questions
  • Agenda Item #11: Discussion Questions
  • Agenda Item #11: 2017 Planning Retreat Ideas
  • Agenda Item #11: Delta ISB Review Matrix

• Agenda

• The Place of Estuaries along the Continuum from Mountains to Oceans YouTube Video

• 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
• Audio webcast
• Public Comment Letters
  • Leland Frayseth
• Outgoing Correspondence
  • None
• PowerPoints
  • None

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 3: Council 2019 Workplan Update
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Performance Measures
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Job Announcement
  • Agenda Item 8: Revised IEP Review (8/12/19)
• Public Comments on the Delta ISB’s Draft IEP Review (6/14/19)
  • IEP Lead Scientist (received 7/17/19)
  • State Water Contractors (received 7/26/19)

• 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)

• Registration
• Agenda

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Delta ISB Presentation to the Council (8/22/19)
  • Agenda Item 3: Draft Delta Plan Five-Year Review Staff Report
    • Attachment 1: Draft Recommendations Report
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Lead Scientist Recruitment Job Announcement
  • Agenda Item 5: Individual Delta ISB Comments on the Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Performance Measure
  • Agenda Item 5: Draft Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Performance Measures (Request Package)
    • Draft Delta Plan Performance Measures Appendix E Format
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.12 (Subsidence Reversal)
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.13 (Barriers to Fish Migration)
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.14 (Funding for Ecosystem Restoration)
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.15 (Season Inundation)
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.16 (Natural Communities)
    • Draft Performance Measure 4.6 (Salmon Doubling)
  • Agenda Item 6: Independent Scientific Review of the Delta Mercury Control Program Phase 1 Methylmercury Control Studies
  • Agenda Item 7: Draft Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Report 4
  • Agenda Item 9: Voluntary Agreements Background
  • Agenda Item 10: Delta Conservation Adaptive Management Action Strategy
  • Agenda Item 11: Draft IEP Review Report (dated 8/12/19)
  • Agenda Item 12a: Monitoring Enterprise Inventory Framework
  • Agenda Item 12b: Water Supply Reliability Interview Questions
  • Agenda Item 13: Draft July 2019 Planning Session Summary

• Flyer

• 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:
  • Agenda Item 2: Rapid Environmental Change Events
  • Agenda Item 3: Delta ISB Comment Letter on the Draft Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Performance Measures
  • Agenda Item 4: Overview of Southern California Water Supply Reliability and Reduced Reliance Projects; and Innovations in Water-use Efficiency and Reuse
  • Agenda Item 5: Delta Lead Scientist Job Announcement
  • Agenda Item 7e: Water Supply Reliability Interview Questions
  • Agenda Item 8: Planning Future Reviews

• Conference website

• 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:
  • Delta Lead Scientist Job Announcement

• Agenda
• Meeting Materials
  • July 15 Meeting Summary
  • Agenda Item 1 - Coordination Updates
  • Agenda Item 2 - Aligning Objectives Toward a Resilient California Water Future
  • Agenda Item 4 - Delta Plan Performance Measures Updates
  • Delta Science Funding and Governance Initiative Implementation Report

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 2: Rapid Change Events Calendar (11/12/19)
  • Agenda Item 3: Background on the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Strategy
  • Agenda Item 4: Staff Report from the October 2019 Council Meeting (Delta Plan Five-Year Review Report)
    • Attachment 1: Delta Plan Five-Year Review Report (October 2019)
  • Agenda Item 7: Ecological Effects on the Delta of the 2015 Emergency Drought Barrier Summary Sheet
  • Agenda Item 11: Interim Monitoring Inventory Report (Report 2; Available Upon Request)
    • Interim Monitoring Inventory Tool
  • Agenda Item 15: Planning Future Reviews

• Symposium details are available on the UC Davis Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute website.

• 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.

• Revised Meeting notice
• Meeting Materials:
  • Agenda Item 4: Individual Delta ISB Feedback on the Draft Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment
  • Agenda Item 4: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment for Public Review
  • Draft Ecosystem Amendment Appendix Q2
  • Draft Ecosystem Amendment Appendix 8a
  • Draft Ecosystem Amendment Appendix E
  • Agenda Item 4: Draft Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment Performance Measure Datasheets
  • Draft Performance Measure 4.6
  • Draft Performance Measure 4.12
  • Draft Performance Measure 4.13
  • Draft Performance Measure 4.14
  • Draft Performance Measure 4.15
  • Draft Performance Measure 4.16
  • Agenda Item 6b: Revised “Ecology During Rapid Change” Paper (dated 11/25/19)
  • Agenda Item 6c: Final Delta ISB Review on the Interagency Ecological Program
  • Agenda Item 7: Future Delta ISB Review Ideas (dated 12/06/19)
  • Agenda Item 7: Stakeholder Feedback on Future Delta ISB Reviews

• Meeting notice

• 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

• Science Enterprise Workshop Executive Summary