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County Water Authority Treatment Plant Malfunction Leads to Massive Notification of Water Customers

/in , /by /Valley Roadrunnerby Editor

300,000 residents in San Diego County, including those in the Valley Center MWD service area, have or will receive written notices this week about a malfunction at the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant which occurred on April 21 and 22, 2019. While water quality was never actually impaired, federal regulations and state water officials have required that the notifications be sent.

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State Cites Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant for Bad Valve

/in , /by /Times of San Diegoby Ken Stone

The San Diego County Water Authority announced Monday that the Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant was cited by the state for a valve malfunction in April.

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Water Authority Announces Citation Against Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant

/in , /by /San Diego Union-Tribuneby City News Service

The San Diego County Water Authority announced today that the Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant was cited by the state for a valve malfunction in April.

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California Groundwater Program Could Help Farmers

/in , , /by /Water & Wastes Digestby Staff

A California water district developed a groundwater trading project that could help farmers in the area with state restrictions for over pumping groundwater aquifers.

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California Senate Approves Clean Drinking Water Fund

/in , /by /Associated Pressby Adam Beam

The California Senate on Monday sent legislation to Gov Gavin Newsom’s desk that will spend $130 million a year over the next decade to improve drinking water for about a million people.

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County Water Authority Treatment Plant Malfunction Leads to Massive Notification of Water Customers

/in , /by /Valley Roadrunnerby Editor

300,000 residents in San Diego County, including those in the Valley Center MWD service area, have or will receive written notices this week about a malfunction at the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) Twin Oaks Valley Water Treatment Plant which occurred on April 21 and 22, 2019. While water quality was never actually impaired, federal regulations and state water officials have required that the notifications be sent.

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OPINION: Believe It or Not, Colorado Will Soon Become a Waterless Desert… Part Ten

/in , , /by /Pagosa Daily Postby Bill Hudson

We haven’t published many ten-part editorials in the Daily Post over the past 15 years. But we also don’t come across many political issues — local, state, or national — as complicated or as perplexing as the declining lake levels in the two largest reservoirs situated on the Colorado River: Lake Mead and Lake Powell.

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Borrego Air Ranch: A Desert Community in Peril

/in , , /by /San Diego Union-Tribuneby J. Harry Jones

The survival of a tiny, unique, desert neighborhood is threatened because more than 60 years ago the community decided to form a small water district instead of digging individual wells.

Borrego Air Ranch is built around a private air strip where residents’ garages double as airplane hangers. It’s located on the southeastern outskirts of unincorporated Borrego Springs, less than a mile from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

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Market-based Program Would Encourage Farmers to Buy, Sell Local Groundwater

/in , /by /Bakerfield.comby John Cox

A local water district is developing a novel, market-based groundwater trading program that, if successful, could be expanded or copied to help Central Valley farmers cope with new state restrictions against over-pumping the region’s aquifers.

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No Dam? No Lake! No Lake? No City?

/in , /by /RiverScene Magazineby Becky Maxedon

If Robert P. McCulloch had not flown over the beautiful waters of Lake Havasu, there would never have been a Lake Havasu City. But if Parker Dam didn’t exist, there would never have been a Lake Havasu in the first place. It’s a bit like the riddle of the chicken and the egg. That’s all history, as they say, and Lake Havasu was the catalyst that built Lake Havasu City.

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