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Tag Archives: floodplain
Water and California’s Economy
Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), San Francisco, CA Jay Lund, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California – Davis Buzz Thompson, Stanford School of Law Today, PPIC released “Water and the California Economy,” a report that presents … Continue reading
Can solid flood planning improve all California water planning?
Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.” E.L. Kersten The best time to prepare for floods is during a drought. … Continue reading
Posted in California Water, Water Conservation, Floodplains, Climate Change, Planning and Management, Water System Modeling
Tagged water management, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, California, Jay Lund, floodplain, floodwaters, water conservation, adaptive management, water planning, water supply
The benefits of floodplain reconnection
Jeffrey Mount, Professor of Geology, UC Davis For more than a century, California has sought to separate floodplains from rivers. An elaborate array of levees and dams usually confine, divert or capture winter floods, supporting agriculture on rich floodplain soils … Continue reading
Woodman, spare that levee?
Jay Lund, the Ray B. Krone Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis Policy debates sometimes seem to tragically miss the big picture. The current debate on levee vegetation in California is an example. Both sides assert … Continue reading
Frolicking fat floodplain fish feeding furiously
Carson Jeffres, fish ecologist, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Spring is here, temperatures are warming, and juvenile salmon have filled the floodplains—a link for them between the gravel bedded rivers where they hatched and the ocean where … Continue reading
Posted in California Water, Fish, Floodplains
Tagged Chinook salmon, Cosumnes River, floodplain, floodwaters, habitat, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
New Life for the Delta Ecosystem
Peter Moyle, Professor of Fish Biology, University of California-Davis The Delta and Suisun Marsh were once part of a continuous, enormously productive aquatic ecosystem that supported dense populations of fish from Sacramento perch to salmon, huge flocks of wintering waterfowl, … Continue reading
