Public Comment Period Opens for Delta Water Quality and Fish Facilities Program

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The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is pleased to announce a 45-day public comment period for the Delta Water Quality and Fish Facilities Program Draft Guidelines. $23.75 million from Proposition 50 -- The Water Security, Clean Drinking Water, Coastal and Beach Protection Act of 2002 -- is available for funding projects that fit the criteria of any of the following categories under this Program:

  1. Constructs treatment facilities or relocates discharge facilities for agricultural drainage generated within the Delta to improve water quality in the Delta or the quality of water that is transported from the Delta.
  2. Constructs facilities to control waste discharges that contribute to low dissolved oxygen and other water quality problems in the lower San Joaquin River and the south Delta.
  3. Constructs fish facilities for the State Water Project or the Central Valley Project intakes in the south Delta, such as facilities for fish screens, fish handling, and fish passage, or modifications to intake structures or other facilities, to reduce losses of any life stages of fish to water diversions in the San Joaquin River and the Delta in accordance with paragraph (1) of Section (C) of Chapter IV of the board’s 1995 water quality control plan.
  4. Constructs a permanent barrier at the head of Old River to improve fish migration and other permanent barriers in the south Delta channels to improve water quality and water level for local diversions.
  5. Constructs facilities to control drainage from abandoned mines that adversely affect water quality in the Bay-Delta.
  6. Constructs a permanent barrier at Grantline Canal to improve water quality and water levels for local diversion.

The 45-day public comment period begins, Dec. 8, 2021, and will close at 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Please submit your comments on the draft guidelines via email to DWQ@water.ca.gov or mail them to: 

California Department of Water Resources

Division of Multibenefit Initiatives 

P.O. Box 942836
Sacramento, CA 94236-0001

Attn: Delta Water Quality and Fish Facilities Program

Virtual Public Workshops

DWR will host two virtual public workshops on the draft guidelines. The times and dates of these public workshops are listed below.

Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2021
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Link to attend: Click here to join the meeting 
Call in (audio only): (636) 651-3141; Phone Conference ID: 459931

Date: Thursday, January 20, 2021
Time: 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Link to attend:  Click here to join the meeting
Call in (audio only): (636) 651-3141 ; Phone Conference ID: 459931

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