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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 …

Rancho Cucamonga High School senior Lauren Hartogh has been honored by Cucamonga Valley Water District (CVWD) as the winner of the 2017 Water Education Water Awareness Committee (WEWAC) Water Scholar Program. Hartogh’s essay, “From Africa to Abundance and Back Alive” was awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Pasadena City College where …

A new San Bernardino Municipal Water Department (SBMWD) Customer Service Office is scheduled to open its doors to the public on Tuesday, May 30, immediately following the Memorial Day holiday. The new facility is a reuse of an existing city building that has been updated to meet the Americans with …