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Your Delta, Your Voice

California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | May 28th, 2021


In Fall 2020, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) launched an environmental justice community survey entitled Your Delta, Your Voice. The survey was live from September 30 through December 11, 2020. Survey development and outreach was led by Ag Innovations and supported by numerous partners and agency staff.

The survey had the following goals:

1) to gather information from disadvantaged communities in the Delta region about how they work, live, recreate and experience the Delta,

2) to understand how the community values and uses its natural, economic, and social resources, and

3) increase awareness of the proposed project and interest in participating in public engagement among disadvantaged community members in the Delta region.

These goals were pursued in order to inform the proposed Delta Conveyance Project environmental review and planning process, with a particular emphasis on the environmental justice chapter of the CEQA Environmental Impact Report. Ag Innovation’s intent was to faithfully reflect the input and perspectives gathered via the survey within this report.
In January 2021, DWR began developing a Delta Conveyance Project Community Benefits Program. The information gathered from the survey will also be used to inform DWR’s efforts to work towards community benefits in the Delta region, although that was not part of the original intent of the survey as the program did not exist at that time.

Keywords

Delta conveyance, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta