Click here for the agenda for the DMMO meeting on October 8, 2014. Please review the DMMO web page at http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/DredgingWorkPermits.aspx for changes to this agenda.
Continue ReadingThe USEPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have announced an extension of the proposed rule (Waters of the United States) to clarify protection under the Clean Water Act for streams and wetlands. A copy of the announcement can be viewed here. EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have always maintained that […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Click here to view the Notice of Opportunity to Comment for the Safe Drinking Water Plan for California. Comment Deadline is December 15, 2014 by 12 noon.
Continue ReadingThe EPA will be holding a number of listening sessions to discuss the WIFIA program that is part of the recently passed WRRDA bill. Two of the sessions will be held in California: one in Los Angeles on 10/17 and the other in San Francisco on 11/17. Please see this flyer for more details. […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley (5). Click here to view the September 2014 Preliminary Draft for Discussion of the Pyrethroid Basin Plan Amendment Language. If anyone would like to send written comments or propose language in the document, please send to Tessa Fojut at Tessa.Fojut@waterboards.ca.gov by this Wednesday, Oct […]
Continue ReadingEPA Water Rule Comment Period Extended By Philip Brasher, CQ Roll Call The Obama administration is extending the public comment period on its much-debated Clean Water Act rule until after the election. The deadline had been Oct. 20 but is now being postponed until Nov. 14. In a statement , the EPA said Monday that […]
Continue ReadingBCDC has posted on its website (http://www.bcdc.ca.gov) the Commission Meeting Notice for its October 16, 2014 meeting, information about BCDC, the Bay, and other issues relevant to the Commission at http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/meetings/commission/2014/1003Supplemental.shtml You may also find information about BCDC Commission meetings at any time on its website at http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/meetings/commission/cm_mtng.shtml. If you have questions or concerns about BCDC activities, […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Click here to view a Revised Summary Sheet regarding the Final Draft Drinking Water Permit Issuance from the State Water Resources Control Board.
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board The State Water Board’s Executive Director is notifying post-1914 appropriative water right holders in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, Russian and Eel River watersheds of plans to temporarily release them from curtailment during upcoming intermittent precipitation events. The notice is posted at: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/drought/docs/curtail_lift.pdf Due to the uncertainty […]
Continue ReadingClick here to view ACWA’s comment letter regarding the US Forest Service’s proposed groundwater rule.
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