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BAY DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN
SEPTEMBER 2009
Getting Oriented – The Delta
SACRAMENTO
SUISUN BAY
STOCKTON
STATE & FEDERAL
PUMPING PLANTS
BDCP – Overview
• Science-based, long-term conservation plan promoting recovery
of fish species and Delta habitat while restoring reliable water
supplies
• Follows nationally recognized habitat conservation planning
process
– Several hundred similar plans developed across country
• Being developed in an open and public process
• Implemented throughout next 50 years
• One of the most ambitious and far-reaching ecosystem
restoration efforts ever undertaken
BDCP – Objectives
• Comprehensive ecosystem approach provides best opportunities to
recover fisheries and assure water supplies
• Separate water delivery system from Delta freshwater flows; new
conveyance facility would bypass Delta
• Restore thousands of acres of habitat
• Restore river flows to more natural patterns
• Address the many other stressors impacting fish populations – invasive
species, pesticides, ammonia discharges, etc.
BDCP - Steering Committee
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California Bay-Delta Authority
California Natural Resources Agency
California Department of Water Resources
California Department of Fish & Game
State Water Resources Control Board
US Bureau of Reclamation
US Army Corps of Engineers
US Fish & Wildlife Service
National Marine Fisheries Service
California Farm Bureau Federation
Mirant Delta
Contra Costa Water District
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Kern County Water Agency
Metropolitan Water District of So Cal
North Delta Water Agency
San Luis & Delta Mendota Water
Authority
Santa Clara Valley Water District
Westlands Water District
Zone 7 Water Agency
American Rivers
Defenders of Wildlife
Environmental Defense
Natural Heritage Institute
The Bay Institute
The Nature Conservancy
BDCP – 3 Key Components
• Restore Habitat
• Address Other Stressors
• Construct New Water Conveyance System
BDCP - Habitat Restoration
BDCP goes beyond bare-bones compliance with individual endangered species
laws: it aids the recovery of numerous species at once. Comprehensive habitat
restoration effort will include:
• Restoring up to 80,000 acres of tidal marsh, seasonally inundated floodplain
and riparian habitat distributed throughout the Delta
• Enhancing 11,500 – 21,000 acres of existing seasonal
floodplain habitat in the Yolo Bypass
• Enhancing up to 20 miles of Delta channels to create a more natural riverbank
with overhanging shade, instream woody debris and shallow benches
BDCP – Habitat Restoration
Fish grow bigger and faster in restored habitat areas than
in the river itself.
DUAL CONVEYANCE – East Alignment
SACRAMENTO RIVER
SACRAMENTO
STOCKTON
STATE & FEDERAL
PUMPING PLANTS
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DUAL CONVEYANCE – Central Tunnel
Alignment
SACRAMENTO
SACRAMENTO RIVER
STOCKTON
STATE & FEDERAL
PUMPING PLANTS
BDCP – Financing
• Several financing options being explored – beneficiaries to
share costs
• Public water agencies committed to paying for new
conveyance facilities
• Habitat restoration funded by the public
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2010
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