Lessons Learned: Restoring the Delta to Secure Our Future

 

Restoration efforts are underway, and the state plans to implement a brand-new strategy: sediment diversions.  These would use the power of the river, much in the same way as the river used to build land, by flooding onto the delta and depositing sediment upon the sinking land.

 
 
Natural levee on Mike Island.
Shrimper working with net.