blog post Sinking Lands, Damaged Infrastructure: Will Better Groundwater Management End Subsidence? By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Jelena Jezdimirovic, Ellen Hanak May 14, 2020 May 14, 2020 ... ... of Delta Mendota, goals include avoiding further damage to local conveyance infrastructure and to levees that provide flood protection.
blog post Allocating Floodwaters to Replenish Groundwater Basins By Andrew Ayres Apr 21, 2020 Apr 21, 2020 ... ... districts that could benefit from reduced levee erosion or environmental groups who seek to increase wetland habitat on recharge lands.
blog post Fighting Sea Level Rise the Natural Way By Lori Pottinger Feb 3, 2020 Feb 3, 2020 ... Rising seas will also push salty water farther into estuaries, including the Delta. The levee system throughout the Bay‒Delta is fragile, and ...
blog post Reducing Flood Risk in the Central Valley By Lori Pottinger Nov 19, 2019 Nov 19, 2019 ... The reservoirs and levees on the San Joaquin aren't designed or operated for large rainfall events or the “pineapple express” floods (like ...
blog post Addressing Inequality in Flood Risk By Lori Pottinger Nov 13, 2019 Nov 13, 2019 ... More graded information is needed for the different kinds of flood risks across the state—levees breaking, sea level rising, ...
blog post Managing a Non-Native Delta Ecosystem By Lori Pottinger Sep 16, 2019 Sep 16, 2019 ... ... threatens Delta levees already at risk from large storms. PPIC: Describe how introduced species are affecting management of the Delta.
Fact Sheet Climate Change and California’s Water By Jeffrey Mount, Daniel Swain, Paul Ullrich Sep 4, 2019 Thousands of miles of aging, outdated levees will also need to be upgraded. Expanding the use of natural floodplains to capture and manage flood flows in ...
blog post Rising Seas Bring Rising Water Management Challenges By Jeffrey Mount Mar 26, 2019 Mar 26, 2019 ... Levees hold water back from Delta islands, whose lands are now well below sea level due to sinking soils. Failure of these levees—particularly ...
blog post Commentary: Delta Interests Should Seize the Opportunity to Cease Water Fights By Ellen Hanak, Jeffrey Mount Feb 21, 2019 Feb 21, 2019 ... A stalemate developed in which none of these interrelated issues—water supply, ecosystems, levees—could be adequately addressed. Gov. Newsom has ...
blog post Connecting the Drops in Watershed Management By Lori Pottinger Feb 12, 2019 Feb 12, 2019 ... The Feather River Setback Levee is a great example of that. After Yuba County flooded in 1997, we commissioned a comprehensive flood study ...