The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society have filed a 60-day “notice of intent to sue” alleging the cities of Colton and San Bernardino and their Regional Tertiary Treatment and Water Reclamation Authority have allowed the plant to repeatedly strand and kill …
Read More »Water flows in East Porterville for the first time in three years
For residents of East Porterville clean, potable water running through their pipes and out the spigots has been a memory, a dream and a frustration for the past three years. But, beginning last Friday, that has begun to change for residents, one household at a time. During the 2011-12 legislative …
Read More »Reclamation and El Dorado Irrigation District announce contract for water from Folsom Reservoir
The Bureau of Reclamation and the Placerville -area El Dorado Irrigation District (EID) recently announced they have entered into a Warren Act contract for 17,000 acre-feet per year of EID’s Project 184 supplies/Water Rights Permit 21112 from Folsom Reservoir. The contract is the result of EID’s 25-year effort to secure …
Read More »Blue Cut Fire ravages San Bernardino County high desert, mountain areas; drought conditions fuel fire
After two days of intense effort by more than 1,300 firefighting personnel the Blue Cut Fire remains at just four percent containment. The fire is a testament to the four-plus year drought complicated, in the San Bernardino County deserts and mountains, by extreme heat, low humidity and winds topping out …
Read More »Despite near-average rainfall Northern California towns running very low on water
For residents of tiny Paskenta, population 112 — located 130 miles north of Sacramento — you would never know that Northern California had a near-average rainfall in the past 12 months. For the third year in a row Paskenta is facing a unique drought. And though their situation is the …
Read More »Water industry leaders celebrate 10 years of successes, strategize for the future
Water industry leaders gathered at Friday’s 10th Annual San Bernardino County (SBC) Water Conference acknowledged that when they convened their first county-wide water conference in 2007 they could not have begun to image the changes in the industry in the ensuing ten years. SBC Supervisor and Chairman of the Board …
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