Canal Milfoil Fight Is Nearly Completed After months of preparation and weeks of drying out and removing silt from lengthy reaches of the Friant-Kern Canal, the main event has been completed in the Friant Water Authority’s fight against a voracious…
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…
Bay Delta Plan Gets A New Delay
Bay Delta Plan Gets A New Delay More Analysis Of Downsized Tunnel Proposal Under Way Release of a draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) has again been delayed to late January or early February as concerns raised by federal and…
Desalinzation Bonds Sold
SAN DIEGO COUNTY Desalinzation Bonds Sold A favorable bond sale rate for a planned Carlsbad desalination plant could result in water produced by the plant costing less than expected. The San Diego County Water Authority in November approved a contract…