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Sunday Special Report: Toxic Dust From Salton Sea Could Complicate Coronavirus Recovery

/in , , /by /KYMAby Lisa Sturgis

Health experts say the Salton Sea poses a health risk to the residents who live around it, especially in the age of coronavirus. The lake’s continued evaporation is already making Valley residents sick, and it could make virus patients even sicker. Farmlands in Imperial County use less water from the Colorado River than ever before. Most of the river’s water now goes to cities like San Diego and Los Angeles. That means less irrigation water drains into the Salton Sea. It’s rapidly shrinking.

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RWQCB Rescinds Waste Discharge Orders for Color Spot, Oak Crest, Rancho Corrido

/in , /by /Village Newsby Joe Naiman

The Regional Water Quality Control Board rescinded waste discharge orders for Color Spot Foliage Inc., the Oak Crest Treatment Plant and the Rancho Corrido Recreational Vehicle Park. The RWQCB actions, Aug. 12, do not eliminate the waste discharge restrictions but rather incorporate those facilities into a general order so that reporting for individual facilities can be consolidated.

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County Crop Report Shows Bountiful 2019 Harvest

/in , /by /KPBS-FM/TVby John Carroll

It’s not quite on the level of tourism or biotech, but agriculture is a major contributor to San Diego County’s economy. The county’s annual crop report was released this week, and it shows agriculture contributed nearly two-billion dollars in 2019.

Statewide, agriculture in California contributes $50-billion a year, much of it coming from industrial-sized operations.

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Waterwise Landscaping Blooms in Escondido

/in , , /by /Water News Network Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

A lush native garden low on water use but not on style won first place in the City of Escondido’s 2020 WaterSmart Landscape Contest.To encourage customers to reduce outdoor water use, the City of Escondido recognizes its customers whose yards best exhibit the beauty of California-friendly, low-water gardening in the annual competition.

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New Border Wall to Cut Through Tijuana River Channel

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Kristina Davis

Plans are underway to build a new section of border wall that will cut through the Tijuana River channel — a concrete culvert where toxic sludge runs into the U.S. and where Border Patrol and caravan migrants violently clashed in 2018.

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EPA Issues Emergency Drinking Water Order for Pala Trailer Park

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby City News Service

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order after finding the owners of a privately owned mobile home park on the Pala Band of Mission Indians Reservation were in violation of federal laws that safeguard clean drinking water, it was announced Thursday.

EPA officials said problems with a faulty septic system and broken water lines at the Lee Bar Ranch mobile home park were so bad that the park’s residents have been told to start boiling water to drink. The EPA called the water system at the park — which has no connection to the Pala Band — “a danger to the residents of the park.”

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Leaders Warn that San Diego Could be Next for Destructive Wildfires

/in , , /by /Fox 5 San Diegoby City News Service

Mayor Kevin Faulconer joined San Diego Fire Chief Colin Stowell and Councilman Chris Cate Wednesday to urge residents to stay on high alert, get prepared and stay informed, citing the historic lightning-sparked fires raging in northern California in stressing the need to be vigilant.

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Ocean Water Has Record Temperature Off San Diego Coast

/in , /by /KPBS San Diegoby Erik Anderson

San Diego ocean temperatures hit record territory this past weekend, as a heatwave also baked the San Diego Region. The record comes just weeks after the unseasonably cool ocean temperatures were recorded. Someone has taken the temperature at the end of Scripps Pier every day for more than 100 years. Sunday’s reading tied for the hottest on record 79.5 degrees Fahrenheit. It tied the record that was set just two years ago.

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A Lesson from the Blackouts: California May be Too Reliant on Out-Of-State Energy Imports

/in , , /by /The San Diego Union Tribuneby Rob Nikolewski

A deep dive into the causes of the first rolling blackouts to hit California in 19 years is coming soon from state agencies but a preliminary report from an energy consulting group in Sacramento points to a number of reasons — including an overreliance on out-of-state energy imports.

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San Diego County Water Authority Partners with Scripps Institution of Oceanography

/in , , /by /The Coast News Group Quoted: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority announced today it is partnering with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego to better predict atmospheric rivers and improve water management before, during and after those seasonal storms.

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