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Three California entities will share in more than $14 million in grant funding as was announced by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) earlier this week. The funds are for increasing water quality, supply, and infrastructure in California communities through desalination or the removal of salts and dissolved solids from …

Thanks to May’s late-season precipitation and the subsequent improvement to the state’s water supply, the Bureau of Reclamation issued its most recent update for water allocation for Central Valley Project (CVP) South-of-Delta 2019 agricultural water service contractors’ allocations. Unusual snow and rainfall in May set some new records in Central …

Four developers have reached a $325,000 settlement with the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (NCRWQCB) to settle a lawsuit for illegally grading roads and pads on a series of remote Trinity County properties, some of which were sold to cannabis cultivators. The four developers/ defendants — Clay Tucker, …

Legislation authored by Sen. Bill Dodd (D-3rd District -Napa), along with Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-2nd District-Santa Rosa), for funding to research and better understand and forecast atmospheric rivers for improved flood control and water retention has been approved by the California Legislature. The $9.25 million will be included in the …

The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board (SDRWQCB) has issued an investigative order to ten owners and operators of municipal stormwater sewer systems and publicly owned sewage collection systems and treatment works suspected of discharging human fecal waste into the Lower San Diego River and its tributaries. Monitoring by …

In April 2018 a Glenn County corporation and its owner/operator was subject to a court-approved settlement agreement issued by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (CVRWQCB) and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. That judgement provided for $175,000 in civil penalties plus an additional $500,000 in suspended …