blog post An Epic Snowpack May Test Water Management in the San Joaquin Valley By Jeffrey Mount Mar 13, 2023 Mar 13, 2023 ... ... flooding and localized levee failures along the San Joaquin River. ... inflow to the basin was tamed by a combination of levees, dams, ...
page Water Policy Center: Data Sets Jun 27, 2022 Analysis of the Economics of Delta Levee Repairs and Upgrades August 2008 | 176 KB Excel File. Related Content. photo - Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge.
Fact Sheet The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Greg Gartrell May 18, 2022 Three interlinked issues currently face the Delta: an increasingly unreliable water supply, a decline in ecosystem health, and a fragile system of levees.
blog post A Life Written in Water: Susan Tatayon Reflects on Her 40-year Career By Sarah Bardeen May 2, 2022 May 2, 2022 ... I'm glad to say that the Delta Levees Investment Strategy is going to survive. What would surprise people to learn about the Delta? It might ...
blog post California’s Rivers Could Help Protect the State from Flood and Drought By Sarah Bardeen Apr 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2022 ... In the historic 1997 flood, levees broke in 17 places. Most levee systems will face challenges—if not failures—in the next big flood. The water ...
blog post A Freezer Full of Eyeballs (and Other Oddities) Animate the Quest to Save California’s Salmon By Sarah Bardeen Jan 18, 2022 Jan 18, 2022 ... But dams and levees prevent water from getting out onto floodplains, disconnecting fish from this important resource.
blog post Video: Managing Water in a Changing Climate By Sarah Bardeen, Ashlyn Perri Oct 18, 2021 Oct 18, 2021 ... The state's aging, 20th-century water infrastructure—including dams and levees—urgently needs an upgrade to cope with a 21st-century climate ...
blog post Creating Collaborative Recharge Partnerships in the San Joaquin Valley By Sarah Bardeen Oct 11, 2021 Oct 11, 2021 ... To even divert water, we have to go through a streambed alteration permit, get support from the local levee district, and more.
Report Advancing Ecosystem Restoration with Smarter Permitting By Letitia Grenier, Stephanie Panlasigui, Crissy Pickett, Gokce Sencan Aug 16, 2021 The possibility of flood waters mobilizing contaminants into the food web upon breaching, and a Delta Levees Program-specific requirement for mitigation, ...
blog post High and Rising: Flood Risk in California Grows By Jeffrey Mount, Daniel Swain Jul 20, 2020 Jul 20, 2020 ... ... intensity and volume causes flooding as runoff rapidly overwhelms levees on rivers and storm water management facilities in cities.