Where the Bay-Delta Plan's 27,000 acres of restoration would go
Oct. 31, 2026 — Most of the more than 27,000 acres of habitat restoration in the State Water Board's updated Bay-Delta Plan would be floodplain in the Sacramento Valley's flood basins, according to the board's August staff report: 20,000 acres in the Sutter Bypass, Butte Sink and Colusa Basin. The North Delta Arc and Suisun Marsh would get 5,227.5 acres of tidal wetland and floodplain, and the Feather River about 1,675 acres. The Sacramento, Yuba, American and Mokelumne rivers and Putah Creek would get smaller amounts. The board adopted the plan Thursday, Oct. 29.
The wall: The adopted plan text is not yet posted, so these are the staff report's figures. A map of the project boundaries is not included.
Tier: Confirmed (based on the State Water Board's final staff report and its Oct. 29 release)
Sources
- State Water Resources Control Board, Final Staff Report (Aug. 2026), ch. 9, Table 9.3-2
- State Water Resources Control Board, State Water Board adopts new model to protect Bay-Delta (Oct. 29, 2026)
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