page_title: California Water Fix and Eco Restore
section_title: Eco Restore
hierarchical_section_title: California Water Fix and Eco Restore / Eco Restore
caption_attribution_description: English: Table of the endangered or threatened species that will be affected by the proposed California Fix
context_page_description: California Water Fix and Eco Restore, formerly known as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $15 billion plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build two large, four-story tall tunnels to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta toward the intake stations for the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project.
  Each tunnel would be 150 feet below ground, 40 feet in diameter and 30 miles in length. The tunnel project is as big or bigger than the English Channel Tunnel and Boston's Big Dig. The project would also include three new intakes with a capacity of 9000 cubic feet per second each, and a total annual yield of 4.9 million acre-feet. The proposed cost for the tunnels is $15 billion, with $8 billion additional devoted to habitat restoration. The project was to be funded by revenue bonds created by the agencies who benefit, and paid by the farmers and urban water users who benefit from the project, not taxpayers as a whole, and thus not requiring legislative or voter approval. However, an audit by the U.S.
context_section_description: The Eco Restore plan is to mitigate the effects the California Water Fix will have on the environment either through construction or operation. The planned Eco Restore includes upwards of 30,000 acres (12,000 ha) for restoration; 1,000 acres (400 ha) will be for upland and habitat protection linked to flood protection, 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) for wetland restoration, 9,000 acres (3,600 ha) for tidal and sub tidal zones, and the last 17,500 acres (7,100 ha) will be permitted for floodplain restoration. Another item to note is that the Design and Construction Enterprise intends to get 2018b permits from the Department of Fish and Wildlife, this permit allows the incidental take of a species listed on the Endangered Species Act. 
  Proposition 1 allocated $7.545 billion in general obligation bonds for water projects including surface and groundwater storage, ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration, and drinking water protection.
  Restoration is viewed by ecologists as an important way to promote the recovery of an ecosystem. The California Water Fix was subject to a biological assessment, which  is required for any project that has the potential of having an impact on the environment. The adjacent table shows a page from the biological assessment which lists threatened and endangered species that have the potential of being affected by the implementation of the California Water Fix. The table shows that three species of threatened or endangered species of salmon, trout and sturgeon will likely be adversely affected by the project, one over a large area.
  There are currently 12 environmental commitments that are included in the proposal for the Eco Restore. The Bay Delta Conservation Plan proposal before this included similar mitigation under the name of "conservation measures" and there were 21 of these measures; the 21 have been cut down to 12 measures and are now known as environmental commitments for the Eco Restore.  The environmental commitments are as follows:
caption: Table of the endangered or threatened species that will be affected by the proposed California Fix
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