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…
Category: State and Federal Water Issues
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…
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…
Snow Season Gets Good Start
Snow Season Gets Good Start It is too early to tell how this year’s water outlook will shape up but a series of December storms have given a promising start to the southern Sierra Nevada snowpack, resulting in modestly above-average…
Water Bond May Be Given A New Look
Water Bond May Be Given A New Look It appears increasingly likely that California’s twice-delayed water bond proposal will undergo some sort of trimming or other modification before it finally reaches the statewide ballot. Action last year by the Legislature…
Irrigated Lands Rules Changed
Irrigated Lands Rules Changed North Valley Regulations OK’d; Tulare Lake Basin Action Ahead Waste discharge regulations aimed at protecting groundwater and adopted for a wide area north of the San Joaquin River have been changed considerably to be less stringent…