Tag: California

  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 22, 2017
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California Water News for May 22, 2017

Sacramento Bee: Is ‘potential Oroville waiting to happen’ at other spillways? Sacramento Bee: Oroville spillway gates close for season to make way for repairs Sacramento Bee: Most California farm-water suppliers are breaking this law. Why doesn’t the state act? Sacramento Bee: After Oroville Dam debacle, we deserve straight talk and safety Laredo Morning Times: Nasty tick season could follow heavy […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 19, 2017
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California Water News for May 19, 2017

San Francisco Chronicle‎: Oroville Dam spillway to go offline until fall, allowing for repairs San Diego Union-Tribune: Underspending proves costly for California Register Pajaronian: Irrigation enhancement project helps farmers regulate water usage Los Angeles Times: Rising sea levels could mean twice as much flood risk in Los … Voice of San Diego: Why Big Winter Rains Haven’t Done Much to […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 18, 2017
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California Water News for May 18, 2017

Chico Enterprise-Record: New webcam shows damaged main Oroville Dam spillway at work Sacramento Bee: Oroville Dam spillway shutting down for summer repairs Sacramento Bee: You could fill Shasta Lake 7 times with farm groundwater lost during state drought Catholic Online: Large 14 Foot Crack in Headworks? Cracking Radial Gate Steel tendons? Threat to Spillway yet no Repairs in 2017? […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 17, 2017
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California Water News for May 17, 2017

Sacramento Bee: Trout, salmon and steelhead: A massive die-off coming for these California fish. San Francisco Chronicle: Report: Nearly half of California salmon species on track for extinction Record Bee: Releases to the Feather River being reduced Auburn Journal: Melting Sierra snowpack spurs river warning Press-Enterprise: Forecast calls for more tropical storms — but it’s unlikley any will reach California […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 16, 2017
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California Water News for May 16, 2017

Chico Enterprise Record: Oroville Dam: Lake releases to the Feather River being reduced Capital Press: Ex-governor’s ambitions paved way to dam crisis, records say Western Farm Press: California would be an unrecognizable ‘parallel universe’ without … KTVU San Francisco: Water Resources department moving to fix damaged Oroville Dam KCRA Sacramento: Lake Oroville spillway crisis still causes confusion Courthouse News Service: Climate […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 15, 2017
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California Water News for May 15, 2017

Sacramento Bee: After decades of shattered expectations at Lake Oroville, can residents trust state? U.S. News & World Report: Ex-Governor’s Ambitions Paved Way to Dam Crisis, Records Say Sacramento Bee: ‘Lethal arrogance’? Oroville Dam crisis sprang from Pat Brown’s … Oroville Mercury Register: Pursuing state, federal aid to cope with spillway crisis on Oroville … The Mercury News: Oroville Dam: […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 12, 2017
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California Water News for May 12, 2017

Sacramento Bee: Hatchery mishap kills 300000 baby salmon. What will this mean for California fisherman? KRCRTV.COM: DWR seeks bids for future diversion pool dredging Delta Confluence: Delta levees still at risk from water-heavy snowpack Sacramento Bee: Poseidon’s desalination plant would be a boondoggle Fresno Bee: Don’t reward water wasters Valley News: State water board rescinds mandatory conservation standards … PPIC: Water Law […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 9, 2017
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California Water News for May 9, 2017

Associated Press: California Borrows $500 Million For Oroville Dam Work Associated Press: California asks federal taxpayers to fund repairs at dam Sacramento Bee: Oroville Dam: With bills rolling in, state borrows heavily Sacramento Bee: Sacramento State is fixing 43 drinking fountains and water sources with high lead Capital Public Radio News‎: California Borrows Up To Half-Billion Dollars For Oroville Spillway Repairs […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 8, 2017
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California Water News for May 8, 2017

KRCRTV.COM: Oroville Dam to release more water starting Wednesday Water Deeply: ‘These fish are in a bad way.’ How many more will die because of Delta Tunnels Stockton Record: The state of our dams NBCNews.com: Donald Trump Wants to Rebuild America? Here Are 8 Places to Start Marin Independent Journal: Marin mosquitoes thriving as rain season yields to warmer days […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onMay 5, 2017
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California Water News for May 5, 2017

Sacramento Bee: Oroville Dam: The latest on spillway repairs – and what state won’t tell us San Francisco Chronicle: Melting snow causes minor flooding of Yosemite’s Merced River Oroville Mercury Register: Switch in spillway repairs – starting from the bottom up, literally Catholic Online: Oroville Dam Leaking? 50yr Proof of ‘through the dam’ leakage? Will the dam breach? KRCRTV.COM: DWR […]

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