The fourth monthly measurement of the state’s snowpack was no surprise earlier this week when Frank Gehrke, chief of the California Cooperative Snow Surveys Program, conducted the reading at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada for the state’s Department of Water Resources (DWR). The manual reading found a snow …
Read More »Coachella Valley water agencies request Supreme Court review of Agua Caliente’s water rights ruling
The Coachella Valley Water district (CVWD) and Desert Water Agency (DWA) are seeking intervention of a recent ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court — a three-judge federal appeals court panel – by requesting a review by the U.S. Supreme Court. The landmark groundwater case, in litigation since 2013, was filed …
Read More »Customers to be made whole in class action billing settlement
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) customers who were possibly overcharged for services during the three-year period from September 2013 to December 2016, or who may have been impacted from their participation in the LADWP’s solar incentive program since February 13, 2010, will be receiving informational packages regarding …
Read More »Labor Department providing $36 million National Dislocated Worker Grant to CA after winter storms
Thirty-four northern and central coast California counties will be sharing a $36 million National Dislocated Worker Grant (NDWG) from the U.S. Department of Labor to aid in the recovery and clean-up after this winter’s heavy rain and snow. The department announced it would provide up to $36 million to the …
Read More »2017 water supply allocations for remaining Central Valley Project contractors announced
The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced the remaining water supply allocations for the Central Valley Project (CVP) contractors in the Friant Division (Millerton Reservoir), Eastside Division (New Melones Reservoir), and the American River Division (Folsom Reservoir). Other CVP contractors were notified of their water allocations in February. Reclamation determines the …
Read More »LA Mayor Garcetti declares preemptive State of Emergency as historic snowpack begins melting
With the Eastern Sierra’s snowpack at 241 percent above normal, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has declared a local State of Emergency in advance of an anticipated one-million acre-feet of runoff into the Owens Valley. Garcetti’s concern is for the potential damage to local communities, hydroelectric plants and dust mitigation …
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