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Late last week the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) issued an interim update to the Bulletin 118 series regarding sustainable groundwater management. Included in the update is key information to help local agencies meet requirements and deadlines under the historic Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) enacted in 2014. News …

The Special District Leadership Foundation (SDLF) has awarded Monte Vista Water District (MVWD) the District Transparency Certificate of Excellence award. MVWD was recognized for the district’s outstanding efforts to promote transparency and good governance. This is the second time MVWD has received this award. In order to receive the award, …

Discharges of sediment-laden water into a tributary of the Upper Main Eel River has resulted in a $37,079 penalty being levied on the owners of a Mendocino County property. The North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board assessed the penalty as a violation of the Clean Water Act. The discharge …

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced this week that thanks to December storms its early-season estimate of next year’s State Water Project (SWP) supply has been boosted from 20 to 45 percent for most requests. But DWR has also cautioned that the early storms have only dented California’s multi-year …

California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) has commissioned a new state-of-the-art research vessel, the Sentinel, as a replacement for the 40-year-old San Carlos.  The Sentinel is described as a floating laboratory whose mission is to protect water quality. The Sentinel will take over the San Carlos’s responsibility to monitor water …

Santa Clarita Valley’s oldest water retailer and its water wholesaler have voted to merge and create one new water agency to managed all aspects of water in the Santa Clarita Valley. In separate votes by the Newhall County Water District (NCWD) and Castaic Lake Water Agency (CLWA) all but one …