About Performance

Background

The CALFED Bay-Delta Program is a unique collaboration among 25 state and federal agencies that came together to improve California’s water supply and the ecological health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Managing this estuary is an inherently complex undertaking, involving balancing ecosystem health, water quality, levee system integrity and water supply reliability.

The mission of the CALFED Program is to achieve and maintain this balance with a focus on an identified set of goals and objectives. The immense scale of the program requires a process which continually refines and adapts management strategies based on new information. This ‘adaptive management’ principal is embedded into CALFED and specifically into the approach to measuring performance.

Approach

Prior efforts have set an important foundation for measuring performance involving continuous learning and adjusting. The CALFED Program Performance and Tracking process intends to leverage, refine and evolve from these prior efforts, in coordination with other Delta system-wide performance measurement strategies currently being developed through efforts such as Delta Vision, the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, and the Ecosystem Restoration Program Strategic Plan.