July 14-16
Bay-Delta Tour (Field Trip)
This 3-day, 2-night tour takes participants to the heart of California water policy - San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Stops include the Delta Cross Channel, the federal Tracy Pumping Plant, Bay-Delta model in Sausalito, Los Vaqueros Reservoir and Suisun Marsh. Issues discussed include Delta Planning initiatives, water project operations, fish passage, ecosystem restoration, levees and flood management, Delta agriculture, drinking water quality and water supply reliability. The tour begins and ends at the Sacramento International Airport, and includes a ferry ride across San Francisco Bay.
The major sponsors of the 2010 Bay-Delta Tour are the Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region; California Department of Water Resources; Brown and Caldwell; CH2M Hill; GEI Consultants; George Miller and Janet McKinley; HDR; MWH; Parsons; Parsons Brinckerhoff and PBS&J.
The Water Education Foundation's tours are action-packed field trips that offer participants a firsthand look at the water facilities, rivers and regions critical in the debate about the future of water resources. Issues of water supply, water quality, environmental restoration, flood management, groundwater and water conservation are addressed by a wide-range of speakers representing different viewpoints.
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Tentative Itinerary
- Day 1
- Port of Sacramento
- North Delta farms
- Delta Cross Channel
- Staten Island Conservancy Farm
- Ryde
- Sherman Island
- Land subsidence sites
- Twitchell Island
- Port of Stockton
- Stockton
- Day 2
- South Delta farms
- Jones Tract flooding site
- Skinner Fish Screens on state Clifton Court Forebay
- Federal Jones Pumping Plant
- Los Vaqueros Dam
- Contra Costa Water District's Bollman Water Treatment Plant
- Dinner in Sausalito
- Day 3
- Bay Model
- Sausalito-San Francisco Ferry
- San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf
- Suisun Marsh
- Return to Sacramento