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Core Actions - At the Core of CALFED's Top 20

At the Core of CALFED's Top 20

The draft core actions listed below are actions common to all CALFED alternatives described opposite (and thus are not listed within each alternative). CALFED defines a core action as one that:

• Enjoys broad acceptance among stakeholders at core-level implementation;
• Provides a benefit to the entire Bay-Delta system;
• Is cost effective;
• Meets one or more program objectives; and
• Provides some progress toward a solution but is not a satisfactory solution by itself.

Bay-Delta Habitat Restoration

• Protect and enhance existing shallow-water habitat at the most feasible sites with highest value for aquatic habitat.
• Protect and enhance existing riverine habitat at the highest priority most cost-effective sites on channel islands.
• Include riverine elements at channel edges by modifying levee protection practices at highest priority and most feasible sites.
• Protect and enhance existing riparian habitat at highest priority and most feasible sites.
• Improve riparian habitat by modifying levee maintenance practices at sites along most important aquatic habitats.
• Improve degraded riparian habitats at highest priority and most feasible sites.
• Protect and enhance existing wetlands at highest priority sites.
• Expand wetland acquisition programs to procure highest priority sites in unprotected ownership.
• Protect and enhance existing upland habitat at most feasible sites with highest value, size and connectivity to important wetlands.
• Encourage wildlife-friendly agricultural practices by providing funding for dissemination of literature and staffing of outreach programs.
• Provide coordination and funding to preserve agricultural land uses providing habitat at highest priority sites.
• Improve regulations regarding ballast-water releases through promotion and coordination of California's interest in applying federal law.
• Improve border inspection practices through staff increases at borders to more intensively apply current regulations.
• Provide funding to establish a rapid response program for introduced species.

Upstream Habitat Restoration

• Improve flows and temperatures in upstream habitats by funding state share of Shasta temperature control device, evaluation of Whiskeytown device and temperature control plans for Colusa drain and Sutter Slough.
• Maintain adequate spawning substrates by providing state share of funding for CVPIA provisions.
• Encourage gravel-mining practices that protect fish habitat by funding partnerships to protect high priority spawning and migratory areas.
• Modify fish passage at upstream dams and other barriers by providing state share of funding for CVPIA provisions.
• Modify natural barriers to improve fish passage such as Eagle Canyon on Battle Creek.
• Encourage appropriate livestock management in riparian habitats by seeking to extend and expand existing efforts by resource management agencies.
• Revegetate degraded riparian habitats at highest priority sites in state and federal plans.

Reduction in the Effects of Diversions

• Use real-time monitoring and adaptive management by expanding existing program to monitor more species and habitat conditions.
• Install screens on unscreened in-Delta diversions with highest potential for fish loss.
• Install or upgrade screens on upstream diversions with highest potential for loss of young salmon and steelhead.
• Evaluate experimental technology and implement appropriate barriers to anadromous fish movement by funding evaluation of Georgiana Slough acoustic barrier and, if warranted, continued operation.
• Provide funding for ongoing installation and operation of fish barrier on San Joaquin River at Merced River in fall.

Management of Anadromous Fish

• Modify hatchery operations to reduce effects on wild populations by promoting and funding activities such as annual tagging of a portion of hatchery fish.
• Support a reasonable effort to provide information needed to improve regulation of commercial harvest of wild and hatchery stocks.

Reduction in Export Reliance

• Encourage use of agricultural water conservation practices through incentives, loans or cost-sharing for voluntary implementation of efficient water management practices.
• Increase incentives for municipal and industrial conservation practices through low-interest loans to urban suppliers unable to afford best management practices.
• Educate small agencies about conservation and reclamation feasibility by providing technical and planning support to small water suppliers in Delta and export areas.
• Establish incentives for conjunctive use by providing funding to reduce supply deficiencies during droughts.
• Ease institutional barriers to encourage conjunctive use where most feasible and in most need of modification.

Increasing H2o Supply Predictability

• Ease institutional obstacles to facilitate water transfers where most feasible and highest priority.
• Promote and coordinate the most cost-effective procedural improvements for water transfer permitting.
• Coordinate diversion and conveyance of water transfers in the highest priority and most cost-effective ways.
• Promote and coordinate most feasible mechanisms for brokering water transfers.
• Manage water resources data and information for the Bay-Delta system by funding the state share of CVPIA activities.
• Fund long-term drought planning with districts where supply reliability would substantially benefit.

Management of Water Quality

• Establish incentives for retiring lands with the most severe drainage problems and where most cost-effective.
• Expand and extend existing programs to provide incentives for pollution source control on agricultural lands.
• Encourage management of riparian zones to protect water quality by finding a cooperative program in watersheds of reservoirs operated by participating water districts.
• Encourage management of land uses to protect water quality by improving land use practices in watersheds of reservoirs operated by participating water districts.

Improvements to System Reliability

• Monitor, evaluate, maintain and stabilize existing levees on highest priority sites.
• Modify agricultural practices to reduce subsidence through a program to cease agricultural production adjacent to levee interiors for islands dominated by peat soils.
• Investigate techniques for beneficial reuse of dredged materials by funding a pilot program to evaluate techniques for beneficial reuse of dredged materials.
• Establish an emergency levee management plan for highest priority Delta islands.
• Provide funding for levee maintenance and stabilization to maintain current level of flood protection for highest priority sites.

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