The Delta Plan includes strategies and recommendations for achieving the co-equal goals for the Delta.
Strategies identified in each chapter of the Delta Plan set the guidance for achieving the objectives laid out in the plan and in the Delta Reform Act of 2009. Associated with these strategies are recommendations. The recommendations describe specific and implementable actions to support implementation of Delta Plan. Strategies and recommendations have associated performance measures. Delta Plan performance measures track progress in achieving desired outcomes for the Delta Plan. The list below shows the strategies, recommendations, and the associated performance measures for each chapter of the Delta Plan. In addition, the Delta Plan also includes regulations supporting Delta Plan goals. Those regulations apply to covered actions. To learn more, see the Delta Plan.
| Recommendations | Administrative Measure |
|---|---|
| G R1. Development of a Delta Science Plan | G R01-01 |
Strategy: Increase water conservation and expand local and regional supplies
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| WR R1. Implement Water Efficiency and Water Management Planning Laws | WR R01-01 |
| WR R2. Require SWP Contractors to Implement Water Efficiency and Water Management Laws | WR R02-01 |
| WR R3. Compliance with Reasonable and Beneficial Use | WR R03-01 |
| WR R4. Expanded Water Supply Reliability Element | WR R04-01 |
| WR R5. Develop Water Supply Reliability Element Guidelines | WR R05-01 |
| WR R6. Update Water Efficiency Goals | WR R06-01 |
| WR R7. Revise State Grant and Loan Priorities | WR R07-01 |
| WR R8. Demonstrate State Leadership | WR R08-01 |
Performance Measures
| 3.1 Urban water use | 3.4 Water supply reliability | 3.6 Agricultural water planning | 3.2 Alternative sources of water supply |
Strategy: Improve groundwater management
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
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WR R9. Update Bulletin 118, California’s Groundwater Plan |
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| WR R10. Implement Groundwater Management Plans in Areas that Receive Water from the Delta Watershed | |
| WR R11. Recover and Manage Critically Overdrafted Groundwater Basins |
Performance Measure
3.8 Sustainable groundwater management
Strategy: Improve Conveyance and Expand Storage
| Recommendations | Administrative Measure |
|---|---|
| WR R12a. Promote Options for New and Improved Infrastructure Related to Water Conveyance | |
| WR R12b. Evaluate, Design, and Implement New or Improved Conveyance or Diversion Facilities in the Delta | |
| WR R12c. Improve or Modify Through-Delta Conveyance | |
| WR R12d. Promote Options for New or Expanded Water Storage | |
| WR R12e. Design, Construct and Implement New or Expanded Surface Water Storage | |
| WR R12f. Implement New or Expanded Groundwater Storage | |
| WR R12g. Promote Options for Operations of Storage and Conveyance Facilities | |
| WR R12h. Operate Delta Water Management Facilities Using Adaptive Management Principles | |
| WR R12i. Update the Bay-Delta Plan and Consider Drought | |
| WR R12j. Operate New or Improved Conveyance and Diversion Facilities Outside of the Delta | |
| WR R12k. Promote Water Operations Monitoring Data Management, and Data Transparency | |
| WR R13. Complete Surface Water Storage Studies | WR R13-01 |
| WR R14. Identify Near-term Opportunities for Storage, Use, and Water Transfer Projects | |
| WR R15. Improve Water Transfer Procedures | WR R15-01 |
Performance Measure
3.9 Matching exports to available water
Strategy: Improve water management information
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| WR R16. Supplemental Water Use Reporting | WR R16-01 |
| WR R17. Integrated Statewide System for Water Use Reporting | WR R17-01 |
| WR R18. California Water Plan | |
| WR R19. Financial Needs Assessment | WR R19-01 |
(The Ecosystem Amendment Project may revise existing and add new administrative measures)
Strategy: Create More Natural Functional Flows
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| ER R1. Update Delta Flow Objectives |
Output/Outcome Performance Measures
| PM 4.2A Functional Flows: Yolo Bypass Inundation | PM 4.2B Functional Flows: Peak Flow | PM 4.2C Functional Flows: Recession Flow | PM 4.2D Functional Flows: In-Delta Flow |
Strategy: Restore Habitat
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| ER R2. Prioritize and Implement Projects that Restore Delta Habitat | |
| ER R3. Complete and Implement Delta Conservancy Strategic Plan | |
| ER R4. Exempt Delta Levees from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Vegetation Policy | ER R04-01 |
| ER R5. Update the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan |
Strategy: Improve Water Quality to Protect the Ecosystem
Recommendations
Covered by chapter 6 recommendations
Performance Measures
Covered by chapter 6 performance measures
Strategy: Prevention and reduction of key nonnative terrestrial and aquatic invasive species in the Delta and Suisun Marsh
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| ER R6. Regulate Angling for Nonnative Sport Fish to Protect Native Fish | ER R06-01 |
| ER R7. Prioritize and Implement Actions to Control Nonnative Invasive Species |
Performance Measure
4.10 Terrestrial and Aquatic Invasive Species
Strategy: Improve Hatcheries and Harvest Management
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| ER R8. Manage Hatcheries to Reduce Genetic Risk | |
| ER R9. Implement Marking and Tagging Program | ER R09-01 |
Strategy: Designate the Delta as a special place worthy of national and state attention
Recommendations
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| DP R1. Designate the Delta as a National Heritage Area | |
| DP R2. Designate State Route 160 as a National Scenic Byway | DP R02-01 |
Strategy: Plan to Protect the Delta’s Lands and Communities
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| DP R3. Plan for the Vitality and Preservation of Legacy Communities | DP R03-01 |
| DP R4. Buy Rights of Way from Willing Sellers When Feasible | DP R04-01 |
| DP R5. Provide Adequate Infrastructure | DP R05-01 |
| DP R6. Plan for State Highways | DP R06-01 |
| DP R7. Subsidence Reduction and Reversal |
Performance Measures
| 5.2 Subsidence reversal and carbon sequestration | 5.5 Delta legacy community vitality and preservation | 5.3 Farmland loss |
Strategy: Maintain Delta Agriculture
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| DP R8. Promote Value-added Crop Processing | DP R08-01 |
| DP R9. Encourage Agritourism | DP R09-01 |
| DP R10. Encourage Wildlife-friendly Farming | DP R10-01 |
Performance Measures
Strategy: Encourage Recreation and Tourism
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| DP R11. Provide New and Protect Existing Recreation Opportunities | DP R11-01 |
| DP R12. Encourage Partnerships to Support Recreation and Tourism | DP R12-01 |
| DP R13. Expand State Recreation Areas | DP R13-01 |
| DP R14. Enhance Nature-based Recreation | DP R14-01 |
| DP R15. Promote Boating Safety | DP R15-01 |
| DP R16. Encourage Recreation on Public Lands | DP R16-01 |
| DP R17. Enhance Opportunities for Visitor-serving Businesses | DP R17-01 |
| DP RXX. Provide Public Access on Appropriately-located Delta Levees | DP RXX-01 (Not Available) |
Performance Measures
5.6 Regional recreation opportunities in the Delta and Suisun Marsh
5.8 Delta recreation and tourism
Strategy: Sustain a Vital Delta Economy
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| DP R18. Support the Ports of Stockton and West Sacramento | DP R18-01 |
| DP R19. Plan for Delta Energy Facilities | DP R19-01 |
Performance Measure
Strategy: Require Delta-Specific Water Quality Protection
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| WQ R1. Protect Beneficial Uses | None |
| WQ R2. Identify Covered Action Impact | WQ R02-01 |
| WQ R3. Special Water Quality Protections for the Delta | WQ R03-01 |
Performance Measures
Strategy: Protect Beneficial Uses by Managing Salinity
Recommendations
Refer to Chapter 4’s ER P1
Performance Measure
Strategy: Improve Drinking Water Quality
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| WQ R4. Complete Central Valley Drinking Water Policy | WQ R04-01 |
| WQ R5. Complete North Bay Aqueduct Alternative Intake Project | WQ R05-01 |
| WQ R6. Protect Groundwater Beneficial Uses | WQ R06-01 |
| WQ R7. Participation in CV-SALTS | WQ R07-01 |
Performance Measures
6.3 North Bay Aqueduct Alternate Intake Project
Strategy: Improve Environmental Water Quality
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| WQ R8. Completion of Regulatory Processes, Research, and Monitoring for Water Quality Improvements | |
| WQ R9. Implement Delta Regional Monitoring Program | |
| WQ R10. Evaluate Wastewater Recycling, Reuse, or Treatment | WQ R10-01 |
| WQ R11. Manage Dissolved Oxygen in Stockton Ship Channel | WQ R11-01 |
| WQ R12. Manage Dissolved Oxygen in Suisun Marsh | WQ R12-01 |
Performance Measures
| 6.5 Dissolved Oxygen | 6.7 Critical Pesticides | 6.8 Inorganic Nutrients | 6.9 Toxicity |
Strategy: Continue to prepare for Delta emergencies
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| RR R1. Implement Emergency Preparedness and Response |
Performance Measures
7.1 Delta Multi-Hazard Coordination Task Force recommendations
Strategy: Modernize levee information management
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| RR R2. Modernize Levee Information Management | RR R02-01 |
Strategy: Prioritize Investment in Delta Flood Management
Performance Measures
Strategy: Update Flood Management Funding Strategies
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| RR R3. Provide adequate State funds to support levee maintenance and improvement |
(Not Available) |
| RR R4. Update Delta Levees Maintenance Subvention Program’s Cost-sharing Provisions | RR R04-01 |
| RR R5. Finance Local Flood Management Activities | (Not Available) |
| RR R6. New State Funding for Non-structural Risk Reduction | (Not Available) |
| RR R7. Fund Actions to Protect Infrastructure from Flooding and Other Natural Disasters |
Strategy: Manage Rural Floodplains to Avoid Increased Flood Risk
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| RR R8. Maintain Lower Risk Uses of Flood-Prone Rural Lands | RR R08-01 |
Performance Measure
Strategy: Protect and expand floodways, floodplains, and bypasses
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| RR R9. Fund and Implement San Joaquin River Flood Bypass | |
| RR R10. Continue Delta Dredging Studies | |
| RR R11. Designate Additional Floodways | RR R07-01 |
Strategy: Renew assurances of federal assistance for post-disaster levee reconstruction
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| RR R12. Renew Federal Assistance for Post-disaster Response | RR R12-01 (Not Available) |
Strategy: Limit State Liability
| Recommendations | Administrative Measures |
|---|---|
| RR R13. Require Flood Insurance | RR R09-01 |
| RR R14. Improve Delta Communities’ National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System (CRS) Program Rankings | RR R14-01 (Not Available) |
| RR R15. Limit State Liability | RR R10-01 |