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LIFE IN OCEANSIDE: Oceanside to Purify Recycled Water for a More Sustainable Future

/in , /by /KGTV 10 News San Diegoby Amanda Brandeis

After years of planning, the City of Oceanside is now weeks away from breaking ground on a project that will create a new source of drinking water.

Called Pure Water Oceanside, recycled water with go through a rigorous purification system, ultimately supplying 32 percent of the city’s water supply needs.

“It’s more sustainable and will help us stabilize rates moving forward,” said Sarah Davis, a Senior Environmen

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It’s One of Arizona’s Most Precious Rivers. Hundreds of New Wells May Leave it Running Dry

/in , /by /azcentral (Phoenix, Ariz.)by Ian James and Rob O'Dell

A flash of red streaked through the trees: a vermilion flycatcher. The brightly colored bird chirped and trilled, adding to a chorus that rang from the towering trees.

Beneath the shady canopy of cottonwoods and willows, the San Pedro River flowed shin-deep, gurgling through smooth rocks.

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CWA Approves Completion Notices, Final Change Order for Moosa Canyon Pipeline Repair

/in , , /by /Village News (Fallbrook, Calif.)by Joe Naiman Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

The completion of the emergency repair to the San Diego County Water Authority’s Pipeline 4 in Moosa Canyon led the SDCWA board to approve notices of completion which will release funds to the contractors, and the CWA board also ratified the final change order for the repair work.

The Nov. 21 CWA board action accepts the emergency repair work by J.F. Shea Construction Inc. and the carbon fiber repair work by Fibrwrap Construction Services Inc. as complete while also ratifying a $200,000 change order in the emergency contract with J.F. Shea.

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Helix Continues to Evaluate Local Drinking Water Project

/in , , /by /The Californianby Mike Urhammer

On Nov. 5, Padre Dam Municipal Water District, city of El Cajon and County of San Diego formed a Joint Powers Authority to serve as the governing body for the East County Advanced Water Purification project.

A Helix Water District representative will serve as an ex officio, nonvoting member of the JPA board. “The JPA board will be focused on the wastewater side of the project. Our role in the project if it moves forward, is on the drinking water side,” said Helix Water District General Manager Carlos Lugo.

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Atmospheric Rivers Cause $1 Billion In Damage A Year, Study Shows, And Are Getting Worse

/in , , /by /Los Angeles Times by Colleen Shalby

As back-to-back atmospheric rivers have made umbrellas a necessity across the state — and with more rain on the way in California this weekend — a new study reveals the connection between the weather phenomenon and the economic effects of localized flooding.

Atmospheric rivers, the storms that carry moisture from the tropics to the mid-latitude regions, have long been linked to the ecological impacts they have on a region. But when the storm passes, what’s left in its wake?

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Cross-Border Commitment To Combat Sewage Crisis

/in , , /by /CBS 8by Richard Allyn

California Governor Gavin Newsom and his counterpart from Baja California Norte, Jaime Bonilla, on Wednesday pledged to work as partners in combating toxic sewage flows from Tijuana into the South Bay as the cross-border crisis continues to threaten the health of thousands of San Diego County residents.

The persistent flow of toxic sewage from Mexico into the South Bay is one the most pressing problems facing both Baja California Norte and the state of California.

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Opinion: On Water, California And Feds Need To Work Together For The Benefit Of Fish, Farmers And 27 Million People

/in , , /by /CalMattersby Jason Peltier

We face an important opportunity to finally put the seemingly permanent conflicts that have defined water and environmental management in California behind us, but not if we let it drift away.

This new era of opportunity springs from a common recognition that our ways of doing business have failed to meet the needs of all interests. 

We have a choice: continue to live the never- ending “Groundhog Day” of conflict, apocalyptic rhetoric and litigation, or embrace the opportunities to meaningfully improve the way we make decisions and get things done for the good of all.

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California Storm Parade Continues Friday With More Rain, Feet of Sierra Snow Through The Weekend

/in , , /by /The Weather Channel by Jonathan Erdman

Another Pacific storm will surge into California Friday and last into the weekend wringing out feet of Sierra snow and more rain that could trigger additional flooding and debris flows.

Satellite imagery clearly shows the next system waiting in the wings to soak the Golden State beginning Friday.

Wednesday’s storm dumped about an inch of rain in downtown L.A. and San Diego, with locally higher amounts over the mountains.

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Securing SoCal Water to Benefit NorCal Salmon

/in , , /by /Hakai Magazineby Jane Braxton Little

Life is perilous for juvenile chinook salmon just starting their journey to the ocean: predatory striped bass lurk in gin-clear pools; low streamflows limit access to the shrimplike amphipods they feed on; downstream sloughs halt at dead ends. As young fish navigate from spawning grounds in California’s Feather River to the Pacific, climate change is further reducing the water available for their celebrated runs. Of the salmon populations struggling to survive along the Pacific Northwest, scientists worry California chinook may be the first to blink out.

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Update: Tahoe Ski Resorts Open More Lifts, Terrain Before Next Snow Dump

/in , , /by /San Francisco Chronicleby Tom Stienstra

Early-season snow is prompting 18 of the 21 major ski areas around Tahoe and the high Sierra to open by this weekend.

On Wednesday, snow was falling lightly on the ridges surrounding the Tahoe Basin, and a storm due to arrive this weekend will allow ski areas across the board to open more chairlifts, ski runs and terrain and position themselves for the blitz that comes with the Christmas-New Year’s holidays.

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