Sacramento Contemporary History

10/29/2024

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CALIFORNIA HAS ONE of the most ambitious and highly engineered water delivery systems on the planet, and it’s being eyed for a new extension. The Delta Conveyance Project is Governor Gavin Newsom’s pr

10/29/2024

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CALIFORNIA HAS ONE of the most ambitious and highly engineered water delivery systems on the planet, and it’s being eyed for a new extension. The Delta Conveyance Project is Governor Gavin Newsom’s pr

09/27/2024

https://delta.ca.gov/nha-advisory-committee-members-appointed/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

Committed to the Protection and Health of the Delta

09/27/2024

https://delta.ca.gov/nha-advisory-committee-members-appointed/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

12/14/2023

The Photographers of the Delta NHA
The Delta National Heritage Area
Pix by Brenda Jackson

06/14/2023

A Century of Delta Conveyance Plans The Peripheral Canal. Duke’s Ditch. The Biemond Plan. Jerry Brown’s two tunnels. Gavin Newsom’s one. Sometimes it seems that California water debates revolve around a single question: how best to shift water from the Sacramento River, across, around or under...

06/08/2023

The Pony Express Re-Riders carry the mail as they travel 1,800 miles from Sacramento, California to St. Joseph, Missouri. The Pony Riders will travel day and night to make the 10 day trip. There is a GPS (SPOT tracker) that is carried in the mochila, which sends a “ping” to a satellite every fiv...

05/09/2023

https://www.capradio.org/articles/2016/11/04/more-than-a-water-tower-the-art-history-and-utility-of-alhambra-reservoir

The large concrete cylinders peppering the Sacramento skyline blend into the overall cityscape. But this huge, multi-purpose structure east of downtown is worth exploring. We take a peek inside, in the latest installment of “Roadside Distractions.”