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CDFW funds $2 million project to operationalize California Environmental Flows Framework
Summary
California Department of Fish and Wildlife awarded roughly $2 million to a multi‑partner project to further operationalize the California Environmental Flows Framework, focusing on refined modeling, groundwater–surface-water linkages, implementation tracking and outreach.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has funded an approximately $2 million, three-year project to advance implementation of the California Environmental Flows Framework (CEF), a statewide technical approach that identifies protective ranges of functional flow components for stream reaches, a presenter told the California Environmental Flows Work Group.
Why it matters: The grant is intended to move CEF from a statewide technical dataset and calculator toward routine use by practitioners and agencies for applications including dam operations, restoration, groundwater planning and regulatory compliance.
Project goals and partners Chris Taniguchi Quan, who provided the staff update during the meeting, described three primary workstreams funded by the grant: (1) improve and refine models and tools to predict flows important for fish and wildlife, with a focus on…
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