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Temperatures Near 100 Expected Inland As San Diego Heats Up Tuesday

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby Lauren J. Mapp

Southern California’s weather is expected to continue heating up on Tuesday, with temperatures approaching 100 degrees in San Diego’s inland valleys, according to the latest forecast from the National Weather Service‘s local office. On Tuesday morning, “patchy dense fog could make travel hazardous” along the coast, according to the weather service. Then temperatures will begin to heat up. “The heat will be on again today as high pressure aloft peaks in strength over the southwest states,” the weather service said.

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San Diego Approves $1.6B Budget That Addresses Homelessness, Other Priorities

/in , /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby David Garrick

The San Diego City Council approved a $1.6 billion budget Monday for the coming fiscal year that maintains popular programs and avoids significant cuts or employee layoffs, despite slowing growth in tax revenues. Council members made an array of mostly minor, last-minute adjustments Monday during a two-hour public hearing. Those changes boost money for lifeguard staffing, tree trimming and library programs such as youth tutoring.

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Hispanic Chamber Of Commerce Has A Successful Business Expo

/in , , /by /The Daily Times-Advocate (Escondido)

The 4th Annual North County Business Expo at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Conference Center was a great success! Presented by the San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, this Expo brings together business professionals from all of North County. We invited our local Chambers and their members to participate. The Fallbrook Chamber, San Marcos Chamber, Escondido Chamber and the Veterans Chamber all had vendor tables along with 40 plus other businesses and organizations..

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On Stressed Colorado River, States Test How Many More Diversions Watershed Can Bear

/in , , /by /KUNC (Greeley, Colo.)by Luke Runyon

The Colorado River is short on water. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at a slate of proposed water projects in the river’s Upper Basin states of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming. The river and its tributaries provide water for 40 million people in the Southwest. For about the last 20 years, demand for water has outstripped the supply, causing its largest reservoirs to decline.

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Blue-Green Algae Treated At Lake Skinner Near Temecula, As Other Lakes Recover From Blooms

/in , /by /The Press-Enterprise (Riverside)by Ryan Hagen

The season of toxic algae blooms is here. A helicopter crew spread copper sulfate over Lake Skinner near Temecula on Thursday, June 6, to combat a cyanobacteria bloom — also known as blue-green algae — that had been producing some cyanotoxins and unpleasant tastes and odors. The bloom doesn’t endanger water that will be delivered to customers, and swimming at the lake was already prohibited, but signs now warn visitors not to let pets drink the water or swim in the lake, to throw away fish guts and clean fillets with tap or bottled water before cooking, and not to use lake water for cooking, Metropolitan Water District spokeswoman Rebecca Kimitch said.

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Big Boost Of Water Is Headed To Ventura County’s Overstressed Groundwater Basins

/in , /by /Ventura County Starby Cheriann Carlson

In a first-of-its-kind move, the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency agreed to pay up to $3 million to help recharge overstressed groundwater resources in Ventura County. The money will buy roughly 15,000 acre-feet of water, which started spilling out of Santa Felicia Dam at Lake Piru Monday. From there, the water rushes down creeks and the Santa Clara River past Fillmore and Santa Paula to Freeman Diversion off Los Angeles Avenue near Oxnard. Its destination: Spreading ponds near Oxnard and Camarillo. Then, the water will start slowly seeping into the ground and recharging the aquifer – relief sorely needed after a years-long drought, said Jeff Pratt, the county’s public works director.

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CWA Authorizes Water Audit Contract With Mission RCD

/in , , /by /Village Newsby Joe Naiman Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority authorized a contract with the Mission Resource Conservation District to administer the SDCWA’s WaterSmart Field Services Program. The May 23 CWA board action authorized CWA acting general manager Sandra Kerl to enter into a three-year contract with the Mission RCD which will pay $260,000 for administration of the WaterSmart Field Services Program through June 30, 2022. The authorization also includes an option for a two-year extension which can be ratified administratively rather than by CWA board approval. The WaterSmart Field Services Program includes residential surveys, landscape audits, irrigation checkups and follow-up irrigation controller visits.

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San Diego County Water Authority Marks 75 Years Of Service That Shaped The Region

/in , , /by /San Diego Union-Tribune Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

No roadside marker notes its historic significance, but a rural hilltop just off state Route 76 near Fallbrook is where the story of modern San Diego County begins. A few feet underground is a gravity-flow pipeline delivering water from the Colorado River through Lake Skinner in Riverside County, then to San Vicente Reservoir near Lakeside. South of the hilltop connection is where the San Diego County Water Authority takes ownership of the region’s historic Pipeline 1, along with four other major concrete and steel veins that send water coursing to cities and water agencies throughout the San Diego region.

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Column: Officials Respond To Concerns About Grebe Nests

/in , , /by /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Ernie Cowan Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

Concerns by conservation and wildlife groups about the destruction of grebe nests at Lake Hodges because of fluctuating water levels has caught the attention of water managers and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The issue was raised last week in a letter to the city of San Diego, owner of the water storage reservoir just south of Escondido. Recent changes in water levels at the reservoir have resulted in as many as 300 grebe eggs being destroyed because adult birds could not reach the nests after water levels suddenly dropped. Brian Caldwell lives adjacent to Lake Hodges and operates Lake Hodges Photo Tours. He was one of the first to sound the alarm about nests being destroyed.

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Trump EPA Releases Blueprint For Stemming Tijuana River Pollution That Routinely Fouls San Diego Beaches

/in , , /by /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Joshua Emerson Smith

Shorelines in South Bay San Diego will never be fully immune from the sewage and chemical pollution that flows north from Mexico over the border through canyons and the Tijuana River. However, beach closures triggered by contaminated stormwater and Tijuana’s leaky sewer system can be dramatically reduced — from more than a hundred days a year to perhaps a just few dozen. That was the message last week from President Trump’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which released the most comprehensive blueprint to date for addressing water pollution that fouls shorelines in Imperial Beach more than a third of the year on average.

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