DELTA WEEK: Five Ways to Honor the Delta

Delta Week was created in 2022 with state Senate Concurrent Resolution 119 to call on all Californians “to acknowledge the high value of the Delta and the multiple benefits of a healthy Delta region.”

This year, we’d like to celebrate Delta Week by sharing five ways to honor the Delta.

The Delta’s waterways are critically important to wildlife, farmers, and people. Its rivers and sloughs are not a place to dump trash, automobiles, or boats. Removing abandoned vehicles and vessels is costly, and once their oil, fuel, and other toxic materials escape into the water, the damage is done.

The Delta’s throughways are primarily two-lane roads, often on narrow levees, and they serve slow-moving farm vehicles, not just hurried commuters. Please be patient and courteous with all who share the road, and pass only where it is legal to do so, and only when it is safe.

The Delta is filled with farmstands and U-pick operations where you can taste the bounty that rich Delta soils produce all summer long. It’s also a wine-producing region where you can sample and buy from producers big and small year-round.

The Delta’s culture and history are so distinctive and important that Congress designated it a National Heritage Area, California’s first and only NHA. The Delta Narratives, produced for the Delta Protection Commission by Sacramento State, is filled with information about the region’s history. And the VisitCADelta website links to heritage and cultural resources throughout the Delta.

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