Drought

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 …

FlowWest’s Sustainable Floodplain Habitat Finder application has emerged as the winner of the 2016 White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and State of California Water Data Challenge. Three California State agencies – the Natural Resources Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Government Operations Agency – joined with the …

Residents in Plumas County will soon see Lake Davis and its reservoir returning to normal operations after more than two decades of efforts to eradicate invasive northern pike. The state Department of Water Resources (DWR) lowered Lake Davis in the 1990s to prevent water from spilling into downstream waterways thereby …