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Opinion: Failure to Renew SDG&E Franchise Would Put San Diego at Risk

/in , /by /Times of San Diegoby Nate Fairman, Jeremy Abrams and Keith Maddox

San Diego Gas & Electric linemen understand risk.

The women and men of IBEW Local 465 are essential workers who put their lives on the line every day. They climb electrical poles with nothing but a safety belt and steel spikes between them and a 100-foot fall. They wear protective equipment to weld and maintain the safest gas system in the nation. When a fire strikes, or a storm takes down power lines, they are first responders. Utility workers assess risks every day to keep the lights on and the gas flowing for millions of San Diego families.
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Future Precipitation Increase from Very High Resolution Ensemble Downscaling of Extreme Atmospheric River Storms in California

/in , , /by /ScienceAdvances (AAAS)by Xingying Huang, Daniel L. Swain, and Alex D. Hall

Precipitation extremes will likely intensify under climate change. However, much uncertainty surrounds intensification of high-magnitude events that are often inadequately resolved by global climate models. In this analysis, we develop a framework involving targeted dynamical downscaling of historical and future extreme precipitation events produced by a large ensemble of a global climate model. This framework is applied to extreme “atmospheric river” storms in California.

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Pipelines Assessed in Record Time with Latest Technology

/in , , /by /Water News Networkby Kristiene Gong Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority’s asset management team recently celebrated the completion of a comprehensive condition assessment of more than 27 miles of the agency’s oldest pipelines. The assessment was performed in record time over just 16 months.

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Imperial Irrigation District Seeks Salton Sea Consideration In Lawsuit Over Colorado River Water

/in , , /by /Desert Sun (Palm Springs)by Mark Olalde

The Imperial Irrigation District has filed its opening brief in a case against the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California that it launched last year in an attempt to halt the implementation of the Lower Basin Drought Contingency Plan for the Colorado River. IID wants to see it paused until the Salton Sea is also considered.

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Landmark Groundwater Act Enters a Crucial Period

/in , , /by /The Business Journalby Edward Smith

As Covid-19 and social unrest dominates news headlines, another problem beneath Central Valley residents’ feet is coming to surface. This was the first year plans had to be submitted for many irrigation districts through the state of California as part of 2014’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

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California Nut Farmers Burdened By Huge Supply, Low Demand

/in , , /by /Patch (Newport Beach-Corona Del Mar)by Nick Garber

The coronavirus pandemic has touched nearly every corner of California’s society and its economy — including the state’s nut farmers, who are blessed with a bounty of ripe fruit but cursed by plummeting demand for their product.

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Reclamation’s Burman Urges Cooperation On Water

/in , /by /Western Farm Pressby Tim Hearden

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman says she’d like to see more cooperation from California officials as talks aim to resolve a legal dispute over competing biological opinions governing the management of their respective water projects.

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New Models Detail How Major Rivers Will Respond to Changing Environmental Conditions

/in , /by /Phys Orgby UC Santa Barbara

From the Nile to the Mississippi and from the Amazon to the Yangzi, human civilization is inextricably linked to the great rivers along which our societies developed. But rivers are mutable, and the benefits they bestow can quickly become disasters when these waterways change course.

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House Rolls Out Sweeping Bipartisan NDAA Amendment Targeting Toxic Chemicals On Bases

/in , , /by /Stars and Stripesby Steve Beynon

House lawmakers presented an extensive amendment to the annual defense spending bill targeting harmful chemicals that have contaminated hundreds of military bases.

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Largest US Battery Resource Connects to CAISO Grid, Signaling Next Phase In California’s Storage Growth

/in , , /by /Utility Diveby Kavya Balaraman

Around 170 battery storage systems larger than 1 MW are currently operating in the U.S., but the 62.5 MW first phase of the Gateway project is already the largest in the country, CAISO said in a press release.

Storage resources are becoming more competitive, but installations are really being driven by carbon reduction and clean energy goals, Mohit Chhabra, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council’s climate and clean energy program, told Utility Dive.

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