Hearings concern petitions submitted by the Department of Water Resources

[WB Staff]

Today, the Delta Tribal Environmental Coalition (DTEC), represented by the Environmental Justice Law and Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School, together with the California Indian Environmental Alliance, San Francisco Baykeeper, and Golden State Salmon Association, submitted a formal statement with the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) highlighting fundamental flaws with the Delta Conveyance Project (DCP) hearings.

These hearings concern petitions submitted by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) in February 2024 asking the State Water Board to modify water rights permits issued in 1972, allowing DWR to use them now to construct and operate the DCP. In August, DWR also quietly added a request to extend the construction deadline for water storage and conveyance facilities under those permits by fifty-five years, from 2000 to 2055.
Read the statement here: https://bit.ly/3ZUKhrH