Tag Archives: drought

In an era of climate change, tightening water supplies, debates over habitat protection and the inevitable budgetary challenges, the recently released State Water Boards’ 10th annual Performance Report is a plethora of data from fiscal year 2017-18. The recently released document, consisting of 160 report cards, represents the work of …

Two Trinity County property owners have jointly been fined $10,000 over allegations they deliberately made misstatements in reporting water diversion and use for diversion years 2009 through 2015 in spite of receiving a Notice of Violation (NOV) via certified mail in June of 2015 pertaining to the reports they had …

California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) has announced funds for eligible flood maintenance activities through a new program — the Flood Maintenance Assistance Program (FMAP) — for Local Maintaining Agencies (LMAs) and Maintenance Areas (MAs). The FMAP program has been structured to help ensure the maintenance of State Plan of …

As directed by California Water Code, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) is required to update the California Water Plan every five years. The California Water Plan is the state’s comprehensive strategic plan for sustainably managing and developing water resources. When last updated in 2013, California was in the midst …

A study by the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment to evaluate the success of grants for watershed coordinators — provided between 2000 and 2015 by the California Department of Conservation – to facilitate collaborative efforts to improve and sustain the health of California’s watersheds has been effective.  Preliminary findings …

Approximately 1.5 billion gallons of clean drinking will be forthcoming annually to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) thanks to Lockheed Martin Corporation and an historic settlement agreement between the two businesses to expand Lockheed Martin’s ongoing groundwater cleanup efforts in the North Hollywood and Burbank areas …