Drought

The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced an additional increase in the water supply allocation to the Friant Division contractors of their Class 1 water from 65 to 75 percent. This allocation increase has been made possible by an agreement Reclamation negotiated with Friant Division contractors and others to exchange water …

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has issued a notice urging the public to avoid a large algal boom that has developed in Pyramid Lake in Los Angeles County.  The public is being advised to avoid body contact with the lake’s water, its scum and any mist. Algal blooms …

Petition signing drives to be held at nine sites statewide  Protect California Food will be holding community education and petition signing drives this Saturday, July 16, calling on Gov. Jerry Brown and the State Water Resources Control Board to halt the use of recycled oil field wastewater in irrigating California’s …

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is reporting that statewide efforts to track groundwater information from the state’s 127 high-and-medium-priority groundwater basins has reached an all-time high of 94 percent participating. These basins are now fully monitored and more than 1.5 million groundwater elevation measurements from these basins, throughout …

Caused by years of California’s drought conditions and exacerbated by a bark beetle infestation, the state is experiencing an unprecedented tree die-off. An estimated 66 million trees have succumbed to one or both of the conditions according to the U. S. Forest Service.  The dead timber significantly increases the potential …

Officials from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife recently briefed members of the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) on this year’s Sacramento River Temperature Management Plan (SRTMP). This year’s temperature management plan points to a release schedule from Lake Shasta that is …