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A proposed $3.75 million fine against a now shuttered National Beef California slaughterhouse will be considered at a public hearing on Oct. 27 by the Colorado River Basin Regional Water Quality Control Board. The exact time and place of the hearing is yet to be determined but will be announced …

Twenty years of restoration efforts on Butte Creek have paid off. Following the drought of the late 1980s spring-run salmon had dwindled to less than 100 returning adults in some years in Butte Creek. As one of only four Sacramento River tributaries with remaining populations of spring-run Chinook salmon, Butte …

Otay Water District (OWD) was recently granted a presidential permit to build an approximately four-mile potable water pipeline at the International Boundary between the United States and Mexico in San Diego County. The new pipeline would connect OWD with a desalination plant in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico. The increasing need …

The Moulton Niguel Water District (MNWD) has been honored by the Association of California Cities—Orange County (ACC-OC) with the “Golden Hub of Innovation Award.” MNWD was the winner in the “Technology/E-Government” category which underscored their unique innovations in advancing water reliability and demand management while still furthering ratepayer savings and …

Information from agencies, interested parties and the public will be gathered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation at two upcoming public scoping meetings regarding the Shasta Dam Fish Passage Evaluation (SDFPE) project. The information will be gathered for the scope of alternatives for the preparation of the Environmental Impact Statement …

The Water Research Foundation (WRF) recently announced Stuart Krasner of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California as the 2017 Dr. Pankaj Parekh Research Innovation Award honoree. For the past 40 years Krasner has been actively involved with WRF working on more than 22 different research projects as the Principal …