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Deep Snowpack Could Ease California Water Restrictions

/in /by /The Weather Network

Three years after Democratic Governor Jerry Brown stood on a dry, brown mountainside and declared a drought emergency, state water scientists trekked to the same spot near Sacramento on Thursday to measure nearly four feet of snow – about twice as much as is normal for March and April at that location.  “California enters the snowmelt season with a large snowpack that will result in high water in many rivers through the spring,” State Climatologist Michael Anderson said in a statement.

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Trump Approves Funds For California Relief, Including $274 Million For Oroville Dam

/in /by /The Sacramento Beeby Christopher Cadelago

President Donald Trump announced Sunday more than a half-billion dollars would be coming to California to help cover the damage from the winter storms, including $274 million for repairs to the Oroville Dam spillway. The fulfillment of the fourth presidential declaration for damage from the winter storms totals an estimated $540 million. Gov. Jerry Brown appealed for financial assistance last month in Washington. Brown met with Robert Fenton, acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as part of the Democratic governor’s outreach to the new administration and congressional Republicans who control federal spending.

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Have SoCal’s Water Supplies Recovered? Depends On Where You Live

/in /by /89.3 KPCC (Los Angeles)by Emily Guerin

Here in California, we’ve been on a roller coaster when it comes to water. After five years of crippling drought, the Golden State had one of its wettest winters on record. So what has all the rain and snow meant for our water supply in Southern California? It depends on where you live and where your water comes from. About thirty percent of Southern California’s water comes from far, far away: Lake Oroville, a giant reservoir in the Sierra Nevada about 80 miles north of Sacramento.

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Lead in Water at San Diego Schools: What We Know and Don’t Know

/in /by /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant

In the past several months, three schools in the San Diego region have revealed the presence of alarming levels of lead in their drinking water. Lead is unsafe at any level and it is especially damaging to children’s brains. Now, San Diego Unified and other school districts across the county are moving to test many more schools. Here’s what we know and what we do not.

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Lead In Water At San Diego Schools: What We Know And Don’t Know

/in /by /Voice of San Diegoby Ry Rivard Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant

In the past several months, three schools in the San Diego region have revealed the presence of alarming levels of lead in their drinking water. Lead is unsafe at any level and it is especially damaging to children’s brains. Now, San Diego Unified and other school districts across the county are moving to test many more schools. Here’s what we know and what we do not. At La Mirada Elementary School in San Ysidro, samples taken last fall found alarming levels of lead coming from eight drinking fountains.

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Board Members Get Paid For Meetings That Aren’t Public

/in /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby James DeHaven Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

If a government meeting convenes in San Diego and there’s no agenda or minutes, did it really happen? This is one of the questions California lawmakers hoped to avoid with passage of the Brown Act, the 1953 open meeting law that generally prohibits a majority of the members of a public board or council from meeting, discussing or deliberating government matters outside of a publicly noticed meeting.

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