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San Francisco Baykeeper urges State Water Board to extend comment period and rethink July Bay‑Delta draft plan
Summary
San Francisco Baykeeper asked the State Water Resources Control Board to grant an extension for public comment and to reconsider a July draft of the Bay‑Delta water quality control plan, saying the draft would fail to protect native fish and the estuary.
San Francisco Baykeeper urged the State Water Resources Control Board on Sept. 3 to extend the public comment period for the board's July draft update of phase 2 of the Bay‑Delta Water Quality Control Plan and to substantially revise the proposal. Eric Buscher, managing attorney at San Francisco Baykeeper, told the board the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is in “a state of crisis” and that the July draft "all but abandons this 16 year project."
Buscher said historical reductions in flows, altered timing and distribution, and barriers to natal waters have driven steep declines in native fish and wildlife. He argued that existing regulatory minimum delta outflows…
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