Tag Archives: drought

The Soberanes Fire, raging across California’s Big Sur coast, has now exceeded $200 million in cost to fight and the most recent estimates are that it is 71 percent contained. According to a recent California Interagency Incident Management Team, unfavorable weather conditions and strong northwest winds, carried embers across one …

Roger D. Mann, an employee of HS Aqua, LLC, in Ventura County has been arrested for allegedly filing fraudulent laboratory reports to the State Water Board. The State Water Resource Control Board’s (SWRCB) Division of Drinking Water, in collaboration with the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office issued felony and misdemeanor …

According to the nonprofit advocacy organization, Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), more than 55,000 California residents are receiving public water that contains unsafe levels of arsenic. Arsenic occurs naturally in the soil and groundwater in some parts of California. A new report, “Arsenic in California Drinking Water” from EIP suggests that …

An August 2015, $44- million proposed class-action settlement between the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and its ratepayers stated that customers would be receiving a refund or credit by June 2016. But, payments have been repeatedly delayed and Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit consumer advocacy group, has now …

California’s high Sierra has experienced just a bit of winter in the waning days of – summer? Yosemite National Park had snow flurries at both Tioga Pass and Tuolumne Meadows on Monday as did the high elevation of 9,000 feet in the Lake Tahoe area. Some four inches of snow …

A new, comprehensive study in the American River Basin in Northern California has been initiated by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to help inform water managers in the Central Valley Project regarding the development of detailed hydrologic analysis and models for the basin, including the consideration of the impacts of …