Lengthy Friant-Kern Dewatering Process Is Nearing An End A three-and-a-half month Friant Water Authority maintenance blitz that featured an all-out battle against a voracious aquatic weed known as Western water milfoil has come to an end. For the first time…
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Pint-Sized Tunnel Plan
Pint-Sized Tunnel Plan Environmental Suggestion To Drastically Shrink Delta Conveyance Facility Size Sparks Retorts When the newest concept for tunneling to convey water under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was being hatched, the project’s scope and capacity were enormous – capable…
LOWER SAN JOAQUIN RIVER
LOWER SAN JOAQUIN RIVER Comment Period Extended For ‘Unimpaired’ Flow Plans Water agencies along the lower San Joaquin River and its tributaries continue to keep close tabs on a State Water Resources Control Board proposal to impose new downstream flow…
Delta Fish Counts Are Discouraging
Delta Fish Counts Are Discouraging Reductions Don’t Consider Estuary’s Many Other Habitat, Water Quality Stressors New counts of six Delta fish species showed discouraging reductions in numbers during 2012. A trawl-net survey within the estuary conducted last fall after a…
Honors For Retiring Board Member
Honors For Retiring Board Member Friant Water Authority General Manager Ronald D. Jacobsma introduces now-retired Pixley Irrigation District and FWA Director Thewis Atsma (center) before FWA Chairman Harvey Bailey presented a resolution honoring Atsma for his long service.
Bay-Delta Plan To Legislature
Bay-Delta Plan To Legislature Governor Brown used his State of the State address to reiterate his support for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and its through-Delta conveyance proposals and talk about costs. “My proposed plan is two tunnels, 30…
Salazar On The Way Out As Secretary Of Interior
Salazar On The Way Out As Secretary Of Interior Ken Salazar plans to step down as Secretary of the Interior by the end of March, leaving a periodically controversial legacy that included stewardship of some major California water issues…
Westlands Water District
Westlands W.D. $1 Billion Claim Denied The U.S. Court of Claims has dismissed a $1 billion claim by the Westlands Water District that the U.S. government should pay for failing to build a drainage system. A judge cited a number…
STATE WATER BOARD
STATE WATER BOARD Chair Hoppin Will Retire Charles Hoppin of Yuba City has announced plans to retire this spring as State Water Resources Control Board Chairman. Hoppin has served on the board since 2006. He is a partner in a…
Hetch Hetchy Draining Blocked For Good?
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO Hetch Hetchy Draining Blocked For Good? By utilizing strength in numbers, San Francisco is taking steps to ensure that no environmental community proposal to drain Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park stands a…