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

• Video: 10/15/12 Hearing
• 10/15/12 - Hearing Agenda [pdf]
• Delta Coalition Projects Transmittal Letter 10.12.12 [pdf]
• Near-Term Delta Coalition Projects:  Summary Information (Source: Center for Collaborative Policy) [pdf]
• Near-term Delta Coalition Projects: Cost and Timing Information (Source: Center for Collaborative Policy) [pdf] 
• Funding and Options for Near-Term Actions in the Delta (Source: LAO) [pdf]

August 5, 2010

Informational Hearing: Update on Flood Protection in the Central Valley

• 8/5/10 - Hearing Agenda
• Press Release: State’s budget crisis slows vital repairs to flood protection

August 26, 2009

Informational Hearing: Financing Water Infrastructure

• 8/26/09 - Hearing Agenda
• LAO Report: Financing Water Infrastructure
• The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta- 2009: An Exploration of Costs, Examination of Assumptions, and Identification of Benefits (by Steven Kasower)

March 23, 2009

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