full screen background image
Archives: 2013-14 Legislative Session

Hearing Materials

May 14, 2013

Joint Informational Hearing of Committee on Natural Resources and Water and Select Committee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta:

"The Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Perspectives on the Plan"

  • 5/14/13 Agenda
  • Audio of Hearing
  • Maven’s Minutes: Joint Informational Hearing: natural Resources and Water and Select Committee on the Delta: “BDCP: Overview of the Issues”

Materials Provided By Witnesses

  • Metropolitan Water District, It’s About Reliability: Bay Delta Conservation Plan attached: BDCP Reliability Fact Sheet final
  • Metropolitan Water District, 2014 Water Bond Priorities attached: 2014 Water Bond Priorities
  • State Water Contractors, Delta Water Tunnels: Build It Once, Build It Right attached: Delta Water Tunnels
  • State Water Contractors, Securing our Water, Restoring the Delta, Creating Jobs attached: BDCP Jobs Fact Sheet
  • Don Nottoli Sacramento County Supervisor Testimony
  • Doug Obegi, State’s Refusal to Use Sound Science Continues to Delay the Bay Delta Conservation Plan
  • Northern California Water Association, What’s at Stake? attached: NCWA Whats At Stake Brochure
  • Sacramento Bee, 4/28/13: Delta tunnel project to radically change Sacramento County landscape

Recent Editorials/Columns

  • Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee, 3/17/13: Scope and Impact of Delta Twin Tunnels is Starting to Hit Home,
  • Lois Henry, Bakersfield Californian, 4/10/1:  Delta Tunnel Plans Have Water Districts On Edge
  • Sacramento Bee Editorial, 4/28/13: Feds Need to Press Brown to Look at All Options for a Bay-Delta Fix,
  • Mercury News Editorial, 5/4/13: Bay Area Can’t Afford to Lose Delta Water Fight
  • LA Daily News Editorial, 5/5/13: Build Delta Tunnels for All of California

Other Voices

  • Southern California Water Committee, Why Last Minute Proposals for the Delta Fall Short of California’s Needs, 4/26/13
  • Restore the Delta,Restore the Delta Responds to Peripheral Tunnels Update, 4/30/13
  • U.S. Representative Doris Matsui, Committee on Natural Resources and Water, 4/30/13 attached: State Senate Hearing Remarks

April 30, 2013

Joint Informational Hearing of Committee on Natural Resources and Water and Select Committee on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta:

"The Bay Delta Conservation Plan: Overview of the Issues"

  • 4/30/13 Agenda
  • Audio Recording of Hearing
  • Brochures

Proposed Portfolio Approach

  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
  • Letter from Legislators to Secretary Laird
  • Letter from Secretary Laird to Legislators

Select Newspaper Articles

  • Sacramento Bee, 3.14.13: California officials unveil Delta water tunnel plan
  • Sacramento Bee, 3.24.13: California voters, lawmakers have no say in OK of major river diversion plan
  • Sacramento Bee, 3.27.13: Delta water tunnels post a tangle of complexities
  • Sacramento Bee, 4.07.13: State water tunnel plans call for rerouting of 3 Delta highways for years
  • Sacramento Bee, 4.16.13: Federal agencies raise concerns about Delta tunnel plan
  • Sacramento Bee, 4.26.13: Gov. Jerry Brown presses feds for quick review of Delta water tunnel project
  • Sacramento Bee, 4.28.13: Delta tunnel project to radically change Sacramento County landscape; Interactive map: Sacramento Delta tunnel project

Additional Information

  • Link to current BDCP brochures, press releases, and federal fishery agencies’ comments on administrative draft:
  • Link to current draft of BDCP

October 15, 2012

Informational Hearing: The Next Decade in the Delta

August 5, 2010

Informational Hearing: Update on Flood Protection in the Central Valley

August 26, 2009

Informational Hearing: Financing Water Infrastructure

March 23, 2009

Informational Hearing: Stewardship of the Delta—How to Improve Decision-Making, Increase Transparency, and Accountability.