The 2024-25 Budget: Salton Sea Management Program

Feb 26, 2024 - Hundreds of thousands of birds use the Sea as a stopover point on their migrations each year. Changes Affecting the Salton Sea Several changes in recent times have affected the size of the Sea, the quality of the water and habitat, the region around the Sea, and the way that the Sea is managed. 2003 Colorado River Agreement Reduced Salton Sea Inflow.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4859

Climate Change Impacts Across California - Crosscutting Issues

Apr 5, 2022 - Additional research suggests that 15 wastewater treatment plants in California will be exposed to flooding with three feet of sea‑level rise, growing to 36 facilities with six feet of sea‑level rise.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4575

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - Figure 11 2023 ‑24 Revised Multiyear Totals 2024 ‑25 Protecting the coast from climate change SCC Adapting to sea ‑level rise SCC Adapting infrastructure to sea ‑level rise SCC Protecting the ocean from climate change OPC Adapting to sea ‑level rise in state parks Parks $17 R = Reduction, FS = Fund Shift, and D = Delay.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2026-27 Budget: Proposition 4 Spending Plan

Feb 10, 2026 - Remaining funding will support state ‑led activities, such as deferred maintenance and wildfire resilience activities at state parks and projects at the Salton Sea. In addition, some key provisions apply to all programs and projects: At least 40  percent of total funds must go to projects that benefit vulnerable populations or disadvantaged communities and at least 10  percent of total funds must go to projects that benefit severely disadvantaged  communities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5115

The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - Provides Spending Authority for Salton Sea Projects. The state has received three installments totaling $245  million from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (2022) for projects at the Salton Sea.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - Continues Salton Sea Restoration Activities. The budget includes $20  million in federal funds from the Inflation Reduction Act for DWR projects that are part of the Salton Sea Management Program ’s ten-year plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

A Framework for Evaluating State-Level Green Stimulus Proposals

Jan 5, 2021 - For example, our August 2020 r eport, What Threat Does Sea‑Level Rise Pose to California , describes numerous negative impacts that encroaching seas and waves could cause along California’s coast due not only from increased flooding, but also through erosion of beaches and cliffs and raised coastal groundwater levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4308

The 2022-23 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 10, 2022 - Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Projects. The package includes funding for SCC to support projects designed to prepare for and respond to sea-level rise, to be undertaken both by the conservancy and through grants to other entities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4633

New Infrastructure Legislation: Summary and Issues for Legislative Oversight

Aug 8, 2023 - Additionally, many of these infrastructure components were not designed for the anticipated effects of climate change, such as rising temperatures, more extreme weather events, and sea-level rise. Additional investments —such as for water storage and recycling projects to improve the state ’s resilience to more frequent and intense droughts, or relocating roads and railways away
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4785

The 2022-23 Budget: State Water Resources Control Board—Bay-Delta Plan Update

Jan 31, 2022 - Additionally, the impacts of climate change —including higher average temperatures, more frequent and prolonged droughts, more wet and warm atmospheric river storms, and rising sea levels encroaching into the San Francisco Bay and Delta estuary —already are beginning to affect conditions in the Bay ‑Delta and its source rivers, and will increasingly do so in the coming years.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4506