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Sacramento River Floodgates To Open For First Time In A Decade

/in /by /Los Angeles Timesby Paige St. John

Rising floodwaters have triggered actions to protect the city of Sacramento. For the first time in a decade, the floodgates of the Sacramento River will be opened Monday morning, releasing a wall of water downstream into the Yolo Bypass. The National Weather Service warned farmers in the river valley region to have livestock and farm equipment moved out of the way. The California Department of Water Resources last opened the gates of the manually operated weir, built in 1916, in 2005.

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WaterWorld Weekly Newscast, January 9, 2017

/in /by /WaterWorld (Tulsa, Okla.)by Angela Godwin Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority and the City of San Diego took steps last week to determine interest in a new pumped storage opportunity at the San Vicente Reservoir site that could potentially help the region meet its future energy needs. The project would consist of an interconnection and pumping system between the existing San Vicente Reservoir and a new, smaller reservoir located uphill.

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Supervisors Will Discuss Intentional Non-ag Delta Flooding

/in /by /Recordnet (Stockton, Calif.)by Wes Bowers

The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing Tuesday to consider extending an interim urgency ordinance that would prohibit the flooding of agricultural land in the Delta in manners considered inconsistent with common practice. One year ago, supervisors adopted a 45-day emergency ordinance prohibiting flooding in the Delta. At the end of the 45 days, the board granted an initial extension to last 10 months and 15 days, according to Tuesday’s agenda.

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Plan To Serve LA County Homes With Recycled Water Picks Up Steam

/in /by /Echo Park Patch (Los Angeles)

A large-scale effort to purify wastewater and inject it into groundwater basins could feasibly produce enough water to serve 335,000 homes, according to a study released Monday by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. The project, jointly proposed by MWD and the Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, would use wastewater treated at a Carson plant, but instead of discharging it into the ocean, the water would be further purified using techniques such as reverse osmosis then stored in four groundwater basins in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

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OPINION: Too Soon To Call An End To California’s Drought

/in /by /San Francisco Chronicle

With the mother of all storms rolling across California over the weekend and more rain expected this week, can we declare the drought over? Not by a long shot. Granted, the landscape is looking greener, the reservoirs fuller and the Sierra snowpack deeper (it was at 103 percent of normal for this time of year Friday). But we are not even three weeks into winter. Deluge quickly can turn into a dry spell. Remember 2012, when we saw our last rain for a year in January? A few storms — even doozies like these — are not enough to make up for five years of drought (especially when there was only one wet year between this and the last).

 

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California Braces For Flooding, Avalanches As Sierra Gets Slammed With Rain, Snow

/in /by /The Washington Postby Sage Sauerbrey, Angela Fritz and T. Rees Shapiro

A powerful storm blasted the Sierra Nevada with waves of torrential rain and heavy snowfall on Sunday, leaving a vast swath of California bracing for potentially disastrous floods, avalanches and mudslides. The latest weather comes just days after the mountains around Lake Tahoe and Yosemite National Park received several feet of snow over the span of a week. At Mammoth Mountain, a ski resort bordering Yosemite, the 11,000-foot peak got 84 inches of snow in just two days.

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San Diego Water Authority Interested In Pumped Storage Project

/in /by /Windpower Engineering & Developmentby Paul Dvorak Quoted: Mark Muir

The San Diego County Water Authority and the City of San Diego recently took a step toward the possibility of helping the region meet its future energy needs through a new pumped storage opportunity at the San Vicente Reservoir site. The potential project would create a new, up to 500-megawatt source of renewable energy that could provide electric grid stability to the region during peak times for energy use or other days when demand for electricity is high and renewable energy supplies are scarce.

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Southwest States Will Not Finalize Drought Plan Before Trump Administration Takes Over

/in /by /KJZZ

Southwest states will not reach a new agreement to avert major cutbacks in Colorado River water before the Trump administration takes over. Even after months of negotiations, Arizona, California and Nevada will come up short of finalizing a deal on how to leave more water in the Lake Mead reservoir. State water officials in concert with the federal government had hoped to nail down the new so-called “drought contingency plan” by the end of the year.

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Southern California Eyes Desalinated Water From Mexico

/in /by /United Press International (Washington D.C.)by Padma Nagappan Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The United States imports vehicles, equipment, fresh produce and other goods from Mexico. That list may soon include water too, now that a San Diego County water district is looking south for help to diversify its supply. The Otay Water District serves a population of 220,000 people in southeastern San Diego County, in a service area spanning 125 square miles, from the border city of Chula Vista to the unincorporated areas in Jamul. It currently buys potable water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the San Diego County Water Authority and the Helix Water District.

 

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‘Atmospheric Rivers’ Bring Snow, Rain, Flood Threat to California

/in /by /NBC Los Angelesby Jonathan Lloyd

The first of two atmospheric rivers, a long stretch of moisture that builds up from the tropics, brought rain to Southern California, snow to the Sierra Nevada region and the threat of flooding in Yosemite National Park and other parts of the state.The express train of wet and snowy conditions slammed the state Thursday morning, and another system is expected this weekend and possibly into next week.

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