Drought

A groundwater management agreement has recently been signed by nine Inland Empire water agencies and area cities who will now collaboratively participate in a new Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) I order to guarantee a dependable and resilient water system in the Yucaipa Basin. The nine water providers straddle the San …

The Riverside City Council approved a long-term water agreement between Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) and Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) last week for the benefit of customers of both water providers. The City of Riverside, has a surplus amount to the projected yearly water demand of their customers’ needs for …

The Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (CCRWQB) has expressed its support for and joined with the State Water Resources Control Board’s (SWRCB) Office of Enforcement and the Salinas Basin Agricultural Stewardship Group in a recent agreement to soon provide safe drinking water to disadvantaged communities in the Salinas …

Steve Elie, Inland Empire Utilities Agency’s (IEUA) board president, is the inaugural recipient of the WaterNow Alliance Impact Award recognizing his leadership in the negotiations of a non-litigated resolution of a longstanding groundwater contamination in the city of Ontario, in southwestern San Bernardino County. A cleanup order had originally been …

The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (LRWQCB) issued a Cleanup and Abatement Order last Friday to the Lake Tahoe Laundry Works’ (LTLW) responsible parties to identify and clean up a tetrachloroethylene plume (PCE) the board claims has contaminated groundwater in the South Lake Tahoe region. PCE is commonly used …

Pointing to California’s five-year drought, poor ocean conditions and federal water management policies as the causes for the high mortality and exceptionally low survival of juvenile salmon, California’s Senator Mike McGuire (D-District 2-Eureka) and Assemblymember Jim Wood (D- 2nd District-Humboldt) sent a letter to Governor Jerry Brown late last week …