KRCRTV.COM: DWR: Spillway construction ahead of schedule, workers seen on spillway KCRA Sacramento: Race is on to fix badly damaged Oroville spillway East Valley Times: PG&E urges planning for National Dam Safety Awareness Day Lake Tahoe News: Rapid snowmelt causes floods, impacts recreation Lake Tahoe News: Wet winter could create memorable EDC vintage Los Angeles Times: Rivers swollen from melting Sierra […]
Continue ReadingThis is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley (5). This email is regarding a Proposed Basin Plan Amendment to Establish Salinity Water Quality Objectives in the Lower San Joaquin River. A document presenting Central Valley Water Board staff responses to public comments on the draft Basin Plan Amendment has […]
Continue ReadingSacramento 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 […]
Continue ReadingSan 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 […]
Continue ReadingTOP TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE MEMBERS INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN BILL TO PROTECT CLEAN WATER, CREATE AMERICAN JOBS May 18, 2017 Press Release For Immediate Release: May 18, 2017 Contact: Jen Gilbreath Adler (DeFazio), 202-225-4472 Top Transportation Committee Members Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Protect Clean Water, Create American Jobs Washington, D.C. — Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee […]
Continue ReadingChico 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? […]
Continue ReadingSacramento 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 […]
Continue ReadingChico 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 […]
Continue ReadingSacramento 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: […]
Continue ReadingSacramento 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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