Drought

After 17 years at the helm of the Mojave Water Agency (MWA) General Manager Kirby Brill is set to retire on July 21. The MWA Board of Directors announced earlier this week they have selected Tom McCarthy, currently the Acting Engineering Manager/Chief Engineer and Water Resources Planning Manager for Anaheim …

Modern Stairways, Inc. of Spring Valley — approximately 12 miles east of San Diego – was assessed a $94,078 penalty by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (SDRWQCB) Executive Office earlier this week for long-standing water quality violations related to industrial activities. The company has been in violation …

The State Water Resource Control Board is asking for the public’s assistance in the documentation and detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (HAB). Water Boards across the state have collaborated to launch BloomWatch App at http://cyanos.org/bloomwatch/ allowing people who observe what they think is a HAB to document the site by …

California’s Gov. Jerry Brown and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown have spearheaded an effort by both states to seek assistance from the federal government for aid in assisting commercial salmon fishers and salmon-dependent businesses in light of the two states’ catastrophic regional fishery disaster and commercial fishery failure this year. The …

Agency making $30,000 available for prize competition The Bureau of Reclamation has announced the first stage of a planned three-stage prize competition for the development of an application framework to support electronic data collection and capture using mobile devices for a diverse range of data collection situations. Reclamation is making …

Invasive mussels have now infested more than 30 California waterways and four state agencies are working collaboratively to help prevent further spread of both quagga and zebra mussels over the Memorial Day weekend. The California State Parks Division of Boating and Waterways (CSPDBW), the California Department of Fish and Wildlife …