STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD Conservation Mandates Begin California’s first-ever emergency regulations mandating urban water conservation have taken effect following July 28 approval by the Office of Administrative Law. State Water Resources Control Board members on July 15 adopted the…
Conservation Lags Among Californians Although Friant Division water use is down dramatically due to the lack of a Central Valley Project surface supply, the vast majority of Californians has been reluctant to conserve in the face of one of the…
Water Curtailments Junior Rights Holders Told To Stop Diverting; State Board May Consider Senior Rights Cuts It probably doesn’t mean much to users of the Friant-Kern and Madera canals who are going without Central Valley Project supplies this year but…
Concerns Raised Over Valley Water Rights Friant, Other Agencies Filing Protests Over State Board Action A new legal dispute has broken out that has raised significant concerns over water rights as a result of drought-related State Water Resources Control Board…
Massive Delta Plan’s Release Sparks Debate December’s release of the 34,000-page Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its environmental review for formal public review has unleashed a torrent of debate and obvious statewide division over the proposal and its key…
State Board Moving Ahead On Groundwater State officials on many fronts have been clamoring to get into regulation or management of California groundwater and the State Water Resources Control Board is no exception. Public input is being sought by…
Sacramento Will Remove Ammonia From Sewage Effluent A key contributor to Delta pollution, one believed to have harmed the food chain for native fish species, finally appears destined to be on the way out. Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District officials…
STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD New Fees Sought To Fight Nitrate Pollution When it comes to addressing what it terms widespread nitrate pollution problems affecting California groundwater, the State Water Resources Control Board says the state should pursue what it…
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…
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…