DWR Earns Environmental Award

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From left, John Laird, Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, Cindy Messer, Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Water Resources, and Bryan Brock, DWR Sr. Engineer, stand with the Outstanding Environmental Project Award for Twitchell and Sherman Islands carbon sequestration, subsidence reversal, and wetlands, during the San Francisco Estuary Conference in Oakland, California.

From left, John Laird, Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency, Cindy Messer, DWR Chief Deputy Director, and Bryan Brock, DWR Senior Engineer, receive the Outstanding Environmental Project Award.

On October 11, 2017, DWR Director Grant Davis helped open the second day of the 13th Biennial State of the Estuary Conference at the Scottish Rite Center in Oakland, California. At the conference, DWR was awarded an Outstanding Environmental Project Award for its more than 2,000 acres of carbon sequestration, land subsidence reversal, and wetlands creation, enhancement, and restoration on Twitchell and Sherman Islands.

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