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Historically used for mining copper, zinc, silver and gold, the Copper Bluff Mine, in Humboldt County, is being proposed for addition to the Superfund program’s National Priorities List (NPL). The announcement of the possible addition of Copper Bluff Mine to the NPL was made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency …

Water reliability for an unannexed portion of the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation’s Reservation took a major step forward earlier this week when the board of directors of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California agreed to water deliveries to 227 acres of developed land on the tribe’s reservation …

Three public meetings to gather feedback on the proposed new fee program at Lake Berryessa in the Napa Valley have been scheduled and the Bureau of Reclamation is seeking input on how to best use the collected funds. The proposed fees would fund improvements to recreation facilities and programs, provide …

As a means to helping prevent the use of approximately 68,000 plastic water bottles annually, decreasing the potentially harmful environmental impacts of single-use plastics while also providing access to free, high-quality water at local schools, community centers and parks, the West Basin Municipal Water District (WBMWD) has re-opened applications for …

The Bureau of Reclamation has selected 16 projects throughout the country to receive $3.5 million for desalination and water purification research. Four of the projects are in California and will receive a total of $778,424. Two of the projects are for laboratory projects and two are pilot-scale projects. The $3.5 …

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced settlements with four Oakland industrial companies last week for Clean Water Act violations. Each of the companies had failed to develop and implement an adequate stormwater pollution prevention plan and each of the four failed to use best management practices designed to prevent …