Public Comments Wanted: Draft Delta Plan Five-Year Review Report

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Draft Delta Plan Five-Year Review Report with Performance Measure Report Cards

The Delta Stewardship Council has conducted another five-year review of the Delta Plan to evaluate progress in implementing its policies, recommendations, and performance measures and is now seeking public input on the findings and recommendations.

The 2024 Five-Year Review follows up on the first Five-Year Review adopted by the Council in 2019. The new report uses established performance measures to provide a snapshot of measured progress toward Delta Plan objectives. Performance measure evaluations are organized into topic-specific “report cards” that consider the portion of each performance measure’s target achieved.

It also includes:

an analysis of the Delta Plan's regulatory functions and a series of recommendations, along with
associated actions to outline how the Council and our partners can implement the Delta Plan over the next five years.

Comments received by June 10, 2024, via [email protected] or the following mailing address will be considered for the final report.

Delta Stewardship Council

715 P Street, 15-300

Sacramento, CA 95814

READ THE DRAFT REPORT

The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 requires the Council to review the Delta Plan at least every five years and revise it as needed. Consistent with the flexible decision-making framework known as adaptive management, the five-year review process ensures that the Delta Plan responds to changes in the environment, science, and knowledge, and the pace and uncertainty of climate change to stay the course in the pursuit of the coequal goals.

The first Five-Year Review and a highlights report can be found on the Council's website.

A screenshot of the Delta Stewardship Council's online Delta Plan performance measures dashboard.

Delta Plan Performance measures help evaluate whether resource management actions recommended in the Delta Plan are producing the expected results. The Council developed quantitative performance measures based on the best available data, and science, and management relevance through an inclusive multi-year process involving state, federal, and local agencies, scientists, and more. These performance measures can be tracked on the Performance Measures Dashboard.

Additionally, watch our YouTube video to learn how performance measures are used to track the health of the Delta.

Delta Stewardship Council

715 P Street, 15-300

Sacramento, CA 95814

deltacouncil.ca.gov

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