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California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) has commissioned a new state-of-the-art research vessel, the Sentinel, as a replacement for the 40-year-old San Carlos.  The Sentinel is described as a floating laboratory whose mission is to protect water quality. The Sentinel will take over the San Carlos’s responsibility to monitor water …

Santa Clarita Valley’s oldest water retailer and its water wholesaler have voted to merge and create one new water agency to managed all aspects of water in the Santa Clarita Valley. In separate votes by the Newhall County Water District (NCWD) and Castaic Lake Water Agency (CLWA) all but one …

FlowWest’s Sustainable Floodplain Habitat Finder application has emerged as the winner of the 2016 White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and State of California Water Data Challenge. Three California State agencies – the Natural Resources Agency, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Government Operations Agency – joined with the …

Residents in Plumas County will soon see Lake Davis and its reservoir returning to normal operations after more than two decades of efforts to eradicate invasive northern pike. The state Department of Water Resources (DWR) lowered Lake Davis in the 1990s to prevent water from spilling into downstream waterways thereby …

John D. Sweeney and Point Buckler Club LLC are facing an Administrative Civil Liabilities fine of $2,828,000, imposed by the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, for failing to obtain a water quality certification for discharging fill material into Suisan Marsh. The unauthorized discharging and other unpermitted activities …

Funds from Proposition 1 – the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 – has made possible $3.1 million in grants for ten projects from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) Governing Board. The projects will help to restore forest and watershed health, decrease wildfire risk and lessen tree …