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Kern County landowner Konark Ranches LLC has been issued a $100,000 penalty by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Central Valley Water Board) for failing to get a required permit in order to discharge waste from irrigated cropland on their 158-acre property located in the Kern River Watershed. …

Updated 2018 water allocations for the Central Valley Project (CVP) contractors were recently released by the Bureau of Reclamation. Late March and early April rain and snow have allowed for water allocations increases throughout the CVP. Mid-Pacific Regional Director David Murillo acknowledged the improved situation saying, “Thanks to late March …

By: JIM STEINBERG HINKLEY >> Some residential wells in the unincorporated community of Hinkley have levels of arsenic many times greater than the state safe drinking water standard,  U.S Geological Survey study has found. One residenital well was shown to have an arsenic reading of 510 parts per billion, more …

Three Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSA) in Sonoma County are slated each receive a $1 million award from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to aid in the development of plans for each of the basins. California’s Proposition 1, approved by voters in 2014, authorized $100 million in grant funding …

Weekly water quality testing for E. coli bacteria along the Lower American River has indicated elevated levels of the bacteria at some sites posing an increased risk to recreational users of the river. E. coli is an indicator bacteria used to identify fecal pollution from human, pet, livestock or wildlife …

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released the final Water Available for Replenishment (WAFR) report, which shows that water available for aquifer recharge may be limited in many regions, except in years of high precipitation. The update analysis of the state’s water resources indicates that investment, innovation, and infrastructure …