Drought

Pasadena-based Tetra Tech, Inc. has been awarded a $113 million contract for technical support services for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water. The five-year, multiple-award contract will support the EPA Office of Water’s Assessment and Watershed Protection Division. Tetra Tech’s EPA contract calls for their assistance in …

Speaking to a crowd of more than 300 attendees at Friday’s San Bernardino County (SBC) Water Conference, Joel Ledesma, deputy director, State Water Project with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR), detailed the events leading up to February’s Oroville Dam disaster, the crisis itself and the some of the …

More than 300 attendees honored 18 individuals and organizations as Inland Empire (IE) H2O Water Heroes at the 11th annual San Bernardino County Water Conference. The conference was held at the Ontario DoubleTree Conference Center and was attended by elected officials, water agencies’ board and staff members, representatives from various …

The city of San Diego has agreed to a $3.2 million assessment by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board to settle allegations that the city failed to protect local streams and coastal lagoons from loose sediment. The purported violations pertain to construction sites within the city, occurring between …

The former assistant administrator for the Department of Commerce at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries, Eileen Sobeck, will assume the position as Executive Director for the State Water Resources Control Board, effective after the Labor Day weekend. Sobeck replaces Tom Howard, who retired in May 2017. Although …

An off-line well at California American Water’s Suburban Rosemont District has been found with elevated levels of perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs). The well in question is one of 29 wells serving customers in the Suburban Rosemont District and is the only well operated by California American Water known to have …