Sacramento Bee: Delta tunnels get ‘real’ as backers seek $1.6B loan from Trump administration Maven’s Notebook: Reps. McNerney and Garamendi offer amendments to protect California water rights and ensure tunnels comply with environmental laws Modesto Bee: OPINION: What Gavin Newsom said – and didn’t say – during his visit Monday in Modesto ABC7 News: Officials hope Oroville Dam spillways […]
Continue ReadingClick here for for the Notice of Opportunity to Comment – Region 5 Salt and Nitrate Control Program
Continue ReadingNewsDeeply: 10 Signs of California Water Progress PBS: Why 96 million plastic ‘shade balls’ dumped into the LA Reservoir may not save water CALmatters: What $8.9 billion water bond would buy ABC 7 News: Del Valle reservoir, park in Livermore to get $5M overhaul Santa Cruz Sentinel: Newell Creek Dam improvements to be department’s costliest project since 1960s BakersfieldNow: Valadao endorses […]
Continue ReadingNew York Times: California Is Preparing for Extreme Weather. It’s Time to Plant Some Trees. The Signal: CA Dept of Water Resources issues warning of dangerous algae in Pyramid Lake Chico Enterprise-Record: Oroville Dam: A tour of two spillways, phase two Chico Enterprise-Record: Editorial: A breakthrough, maybe, for public input on Oroville Dam Morgan Hill Times: Plans for $1 billion […]
Continue ReadingSFGate: Southern California thunderstorms bring flash-flood warnings Ventura County Star: Four Ventura County area dams cited as deficient in grand jury report Chico Enterprise-Record: Concrete flows Monday on ‘splash pad’ expansion Action News Now: LOCAL OVERSIGHT GROUP CREATED FOR OROVILLE DAM The Acorn: New pump station crucial to Calleguas and Las Virgenes Pleasanton Weekly: California’s permanent drought is getting worse Sacramento […]
Continue ReadingCOMMUNITIES REINVEST IN WATER TRANSIT New York, San Francisco, and Seattle are but the tip of the iceberg. As gridlock descends on U.S. road systems local governments look to the waterways that 100 years ago provided the transportation routes that expanding road systems made obsolete- or so we thought. Please mark your calendars for October […]
Continue ReadingMaven’s Notebook: LAKE OROVILE SPILLWAYS CONSTRUCTION: Update for July 11 – with photos and videos Fresno Bee: OPINION: Built to Serve a Variety of Purposes, Water System Struggles to Serve Any Western FarmPress: Work continues on Oroville Dam rebuild Chico Enterprise-Record: Local oversight group established for Oroville Dam Los Angeles Sentinel: L.A. County Shows Off Stormwater Infrastructure for Safe Clean […]
Continue ReadingClick here for information on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy’s upcoming design workshop.
Continue ReadingMaven’s Notebook: Successful Groundwater Sustainability Planning CBS Sacramento: Southern California Water Agency Re-Approves Delta Tunnels Funding Daily Kos: Coalition Protests Delta Tunnels Tax as MWD Revotes on $11 Billion to Finance WaterFix Capital Press: Nonprofit files plan to remove four Klamath dams IECN: Securing Southern California’s Water Future with the Help of the Cadiz Water Project Sierra Sun Times: Restore Hetch Hetchy […]
Continue ReadingClick here to read about the court’s recent rejection of the Restore Hetch Hetchy measure.
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