Agreements to Support Healthy Rivers and Landscapes

We, the undersigned participating water agencies, are writing to express our strong support for the Voluntary Agreements, which will enhance healthy rivers and landscapes while helping California adapt to our climate reality by strengthening the environment, communities and farms. Today, your staff issued a series of documents to update the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta). Protecting California’s Bay-Delta watershed and its many beneficial uses is one of the State Water Board’s primary responsibilities.

This includes updating and adopting the Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan (Bay-Delta Plan), which establishes water quality control measures and flow requirements needed to provide reasonable protection of beneficial uses in the watershed, including environmental, municipal, domestic and agricultural water supplies. The draft documents include a staff report describing the State Water Board process to evaluate alternatives, a Substitute Environmental Document (SED), a scientific basis report and other supporting materials. The public will have an opportunity to comment on the different alternatives over the next several months. The State Water Board will consider those comments and adopt the Bay-Delta Plan Update in late 2024, after evaluating the alternatives and their environmental effects, and ensuring the new plan will protect the beneficial uses of water in the Bay-Delta watershed.

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• River Studies
• Performance Benchmarking of River
• River Basin management
• River Restoration
• River Engineering