Drought

The State Water Resources Control Board announced on Monday that 99 percent of the state’s high- and medium-priority groundwater basins have met a key deadline to form local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) as required by the state’s landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) of 2014. One hundred and twenty-seven high- …

The city of Bakersfield, on the southern end of the state’s Central Valley, has awarded a contract to Evoqua Water Technologies, LLC, headquartered in Pittsburgh, for vessel and manifold procurement associated with mitigation of 1,2,3-Tricloropropane (1,2,3-TCP). The contract was effected in order for Bakersfield to comply with the state’s newly …

“We had stable groundwater resources even during the drought, but the high amounts of rainfall this winter ensured that groundwater resources were recharged and aquifers refilled. That’s good for Napa,” said Garrett Buckland, president of Napa Valley Grapegrowers and partner at Premiere Viticultural Services. Buckland’s summation of Water Year (WY) …

A bane for many years for wastewater professionals have been the not-so-disposable, disposable wipes products. These modern conveniences have been a scourge for wastewater agencies as their operators have been forced to spend hours unclogging and rebuilding wipes-plagued pumps that would break down, only to have the problem repeat itself …

In many ways, East Porterville in California’s Central Valley was ground zero during the state’s historic five-plus year drought. In addition to the severe drought many of the households were hit doubly hard when work for farm workers also often dried up due to the multiple of fallowed fields. But …

Houston-based CEMEX, the State Lands Commission, the California Coastal Commission and the City of Marina have reached an historic four-way settlement agreement that ends coastal sand mining in Monterey County and in the continental United States. The agreement provides a December 31, 2020 end date for CEMEX’s sand extraction operations …