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A Drier Future Sets The Stage For More Wildfires
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Science Daily (Rockville, MD)November 8, 2018 was a dry day in Butte County, California. The state was in its sixth consecutive year of drought, and the county had not had a rainfall event producing more than a half inch of rain for seven months. The dry summer had parched the spring vegetation, and the strong northeasterly winds of autumn were gusting at 35 miles per hour and rising, creating red flag conditions: Any planned or unplanned fires could quickly get out of control.
Scripps Study Finds Climate Change Will Cause Wet and Dry Extremes In California
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Times of San Diegoby Chris JenneweinA study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests that a new pattern of wet and dry extremes is emerging in California with extreme precipitation caused by streams of moisture in the sky known as atmospheric rivers.
Why This Bay Area Senator Was the Sole No Vote on Newsom’s Clean Water Plan
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /KQED Radio San Franciscoby Kevin StarkBob Wieckowski stands alone. He was the only state senator to vote against Gov. Gavin Newsom’s plan to clean up dirty drinking water in the California’s poorest communities, which passed the Senate in a 38-1 vote on Monday.
You May Survive The Big One, But LA’s Water Supply May Not
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /KCRW Radio Los Angeles by Steve ChiotakisSeismologist Lucy Jones hikes through a dirt trail into a canyon, past a riverbed, and through some brush in Altadena. She kneels down and points at a thick layer of greenish-grey clay, snaking through the sloping terrain among rocks and dirt.
“This is the fault! Isn’t it amazing?”
Helix Pledges Additional $2.5 Million For Padre Dam Reclaimed Water Plan
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Karen PearlmanThe Helix Water District says it remains committed to the East County Advanced Water Purification Project, a multimillion-dollar, multi-agency recycled water project facilitated by the Padre Dam Municipal Water District in Santee.
The State Cited San Diego Water Officials for Water Treatment Failure
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Voice of San Diegoby Ry RivardFor the better part of a day this April, San Diego’s main drinking water treatment plant wasn’t doing everything it was supposed to do to kill viruses and a nasty parasite known as Giardia before reaching taps across parts of the city, North County, East County and South Bay.
Environment Report: The Earthquake Risk No One’s Talking About
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Voice of San Diegoby Ry RivardSan Diego faces a hidden earthquake threat — to its water supply. A quake, even one so far away that nobody in San Diego feels it, could cause an emergency and force mandatory water-use restrictions. That’s because most of San Diego’s water comes from hundreds of miles away through threads of metal and concrete that connect us to distant rivers and reservoirs.
Neighbors Upset With Water Main Breaks in North Park
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /KGTV 10 News San Diegoby Natay HolmesPeople in North Park say they’re fed up with rushing water and flood damage from recent water main breaks. There have been at least four major water main breaks, since 2017, in the same area.
County Water Authority Treatment Plant Malfunction Leads to Massive Notification of Water Customers
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Valley Roadrunnerby Editor300,000 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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