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California Delta levees are at risk of floods, repairs could cost $3 billion
The Delta faces a funding crisis to repair and maintain levees. If ruptured, it could endanger half a million people and ...
Newsom in fight to advance plans for $20-billion water tunnel in the Sacramento Delta
The Newsom administration is pushing to build a $20-billion water tunnel. As state regulators hold hearings, the fight over ...
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Trump admin approves funding to keep California’s delta smelt alive
What happened: The University of California, Davis’ Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory, which breeds, raises and releases delta smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, is now out ...
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California waterway invaded by mussels, what the state plans to do about it
California wildlife officials detected an invasive species in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that threatens numerous ecosystems in the northern part of the state. On April 16, officials ...
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Miles of Delta levees are at risk of floods. Repairs could cost $3 billion
As winter storms soaked California in early 2023, the Sacramento River swelled toward ... said engineer Gilbert Cosio with River Delta Consulting. “The last few years have been a perfect storm ...
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Newsom in fight to advance plans for $20-billion water tunnel in the Sacramento Delta
The Sacramento River flows past orchards in Courtland near a spot where officials have proposed to build one of two intakes for a 45-mile water tunnel. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...