MEETING SUMMARY
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy hosted the second public meeting for the Webb Tract Wetland Restoration and Webb Tract Rice Conversion Projects. These projects, funded by the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy and Metropolitan and located on the central Delta island of Webb Tract, will develop a wetland and convert existing agricultural lands to a sustainable agricultural crop. Together, both projects are designed to stop and/or reverse subsidence, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, and provide funding for scientific efforts.
During the meeting, Campbell Ingram, executive director of the Delta Conservancy, provided background to the Nature Based Solutions program. (Nature Based Solutions program)
Malinda Stalvey, Metropolitan’s project manager, provided an update on the Rice Conversion Project. Metropolitan released a Request for Proposals on Feb 10. Proposals are due on Friday, March 21. Further details can be found here.
Don Hankins, co-chair of the Webb Tract Wetland Restoration Project Ecocultural Working Group, provided an update on the team's work, k, including recommendations on the wetland design. Jennifer Burt of GEI Consultants, shared information about the wetland design. The team just completed the 60% design milestone and this Spring, Metropolitan staff will complete a value engineering workshop to evaluate the constructability of the design and to look for potential cost savings.
Malinda Stalvey shared the schedule for the wetland restoration that includes all permitting. Construction is expected to begin in Spring 2026. Karen Buhr from the Delta Conservancy facilitated a question-and-answer session.
Photo below: This eddy covariance tower is one of two currently installed on Webb Tract to measure greenhouse gas emissions and other background data. The data collected will be used to measure the greenhouse gas reductions from the Webb Tract Rice Conversion and Wetland Restoration Projects.
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