Tag Archives: conservation

That’s right homeowners. It’s the 13th annual Fix a Leak week, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) WaterSense program and its partners are encouraging all Americans to take just 10 minutes this week, (March 15 through 22) to find and fix water leaks. Fixing household leaks conserves water to …

Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) has joined with the nonprofit organization Desert Arc to create a program to recycle irrigation controllers that are being replaced with more efficient models. Under the program, CVWD will ask customers participating in the district’s irrigation controller rebate program if they want to recycle their …

Earlier this week the First District Court of Appeal ruled to uphold a cleanup and abatement order along with the $2.8 million fine issued by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board (Water Board) for unauthorized levee construction and other activities in the Suisun Marsh. According to the …

A new member has been added to the Lower Yuba River Accord. The agreement was approved earlier this week by the board of directors for the Yuba Water Agency and  allows the Cordua Irrigation District to participate in the water management agreement that supports endangered salmon and steelhead, while also …

The US Bureau of Reclamation and California Department of Fish and Wildlife released more than 400,000 steelhead trout into the Lower American River earlier this month according to a statement on the Agency’s website. “Reclamation is appreciative of our partnership with CDFW to operate our Nimbus Fish Hatchery on the …

Yuba Water Agency’s board of directors approved $6.5 million in funding for forest restoration projects this week as a part of the North Yuba Forest Partnership. The partnership is made up of nine organizations working collaboratively to plan, finance and implement forest restoration across 275,000 acres of private and public …