Change Sheet #2 for Item 7 (Desal) at the May 6, 2015 SWRCB Board Meeting
This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is Change Sheet #2 for Item 7 at the May 6, 2015 Board Meeting.
Continue ReadingFederal Navigation Channels Maintenance Dredging Final EA/EIR
This is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region (2). The Final Environmental Assessment/Environmental Impact Report (EA/EIR) for the Maintenance Dredging of the Federal Navigation Channels in San Francisco Bay, Fiscal Years 2015-2024 and Response to Comments is available online here. The United States Army Corps of Engineers […]
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California Water & Drought News for May 4, 2015
NPR: A Landscape Of Abundance Becomes A Landscape Of Scarcity New York Times: The End of California? Bloomberg: California’s Doomsday Water Cycle Sacramento Bee: Drought-hammered state curtails junior water rights in Delta, Sacramento River San Diego Union-Tribune: A drought like no other Los Angeles Times: Central Valley’s growing concern: Crops raised with oil field water Los Angeles Times: Amid drought, the West […]
Continue ReadingNotice of WETA Board of Directors Meeting – May 7, 2015
WETA Board Meeting Thursday, May 7, 2015 The next San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority Board of Directors meeting will be held Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the WETA offices located at Pier 9, Suite 111 on The Embarcadero in San Francisco, CA. The meeting agenda and Board packet are available […]
Continue ReadingNotice of Public Workshop: Drought Activities in the Bay-Delta
This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board is holding a Public Workshop on Drought Activities in the Bay-Delta on Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Please, click here to view the Notice.
Continue ReadingCalifornia Water & Drought News for May 1, 2015
Sacramento Bee: Jerry Brown’s revised water tunnels plan adds political problems LA Times: Giant tunnels planned for delta ‘must move forward,’ Brown says San Jose Mercury: New $17 billion Delta tunnels plan with less environmental restoration unveiled by Brown Associated Press: California cuts wetland, wildlife restoration in water plan The Reporter: Solano County representatives oppose Governor’s latest water plan Sacramento […]
Continue ReadingA New Approach to Improving the Delta’s Ecosystem and Fixing California’s Primary Water Delivery System
A New Approach to Improving the Delta’s Ecosystem and Fixing California’s Water Delivery System ___________________________________ Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. joined state and federal officials today to announce a new approach for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The revised approach – known as California EcoRestore and California WaterFix (Alternative 4A)– is directly responsive to public feedback […]
Continue ReadingSenate bill aims to lure Dems unhappy with Obama rule
WATER POLICY: Senate bill aims to lure Dems unhappy with Obama rule Annie Snider, E&E reporter, Published: Thursday, April 30, 2015 Senate critics of President Obama’s hot-button water rule unveiled legislation today that would send U.S. EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers back to the drawing board. The bipartisan “Federal Water Quality Protection Act” was […]
Continue ReadingNotice of Opportunity for Public Comment and Public Workshop – Proposed Draft Model Criteria for Groundwater Monitoring
This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is a Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment and Notice of Public Workshop on the proposed Draft Model Criteria for Groundwater Monitoring. The Public Workshop is scheduled for May 19, 2015 Comment Deadline is May 29, 2015 by 12 noon.
Continue ReadingNotice of Proposed Rulemaking and Emergency Regulation Digest
This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. The Notice of Proposed Emergency Rulemaking and the Emergency Regulations Digest for the Proposed Emergency Regulation that will be considered by the State Water Board at its May 5-6, 2015 meeting have been posted online here. The Notice of Proposed Emergency Rulemaking begins a […]
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