Tuolumne Utilities District (TUD) is slated to begin design and permitting in order to improve the water quality and storage capacity of Phoenix Lake and Phoenix Lake watershed. The Phoenix Lake Preservation and Restoration Project will start next week. Using a floating barge, Horizon Water and Environment, Inc. and its …
Read More »Salton Sea Management Program Workshops scheduled for this summer
A series of workshops have been scheduled by the California Natural Resources Agency to provide information and solicit input on the state’s Salton Sea Management Program (SSMP). The Salton Sea is California’s largest lake. Geographically at thirty-five miles long and 15 miles wide, the desert lake extends from the Coachella …
Read More »Metropolitan Water District releases analysis of water supplies for next three years
Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District (MWD) has released their analysis of water supplies for the next three years saying that it has sufficient water supplies to meet the demands of its member agencies thanks, in large part, to Southland residents and their successful water conservation efforts. When the State Water …
Read More »No-show El Niño, continuing drought and rising temperatures combine for a critical fire season
Lacking a true, heavy rain El Niño presence in Southern California this year and rising global temperatures, fire officials throughout the Southland came together recently to warn people to take precautions, maintain your properties and shrubbery and be prepared. Michael Moore, Riverside fire chief, said this will be a “critical” …
Read More »Marsh restoration approved by San Francisco Bay voters
In a first-ever, nine Bay Area county vote, Measure AA earned 69.3 percent in favor of funding wetlands restoration and flood control projects around the San Francisco Bay shoreline. The measure needed a two thirds majority of votes to pass. David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay, Oakland, referred …
Read More »$30 million from Interior Department will help build drought-resistant water supplies
The Bureau of Reclamation’s Title XVI program is making $30 million available for seven projects that will provide clean water to California communities and promote water and energy efficiency. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor said, ““With California in its fifth year of drought, these investments will build …
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