Mum’s the word on the new leader of the country’s biggest water distributor, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Last week, Metropolitan’s governing board came out of a closed session to discuss their next leader with no decision to share. Its former leader, Adel Hagekhalil, was brought down by accusations of workplace discrimination.
A lawsuit against the city of San Diego is highlighting safety and management concerns at the El Capitan Dam and Reservoir. The suit is also dredging up residents’ longstanding fight against sand mining in Lakeside’s picturesque El Monte Valley.
Monsoon season is in full swing across the parched Southwest, but it’s the remnants of what was once Tropical Storm Juliette in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that could cause some problems in the western U.S. on Thursday.
It’s been a wet and stormy week across the Southwest, and it’s looking like that trend will continue through at least the end of the week.
The city of San Diego is in the middle of litigation centered on one of its dams rated in poor condition by the state, and the attorney on the opposing side is one city officials are all too familiar with.
His name is Vincent Bartolotta, and he’s representing a company called El Monte Nature Preserve, LLC.
Tuesday could be a historic day for progressives who have long wanted to unleash the county’s massive reserve fund.
County supervisors will vote today on whether to amend the county’s reserve policy, which could allow the county to dip into more of its big rainy-day fund to combat impending federal cuts.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has pre-deployed more fighting crews and equipment to the San Diego area and four other counties, in case the current heat wave leads to wildfire in a region that is critically dry.
Newsom said a total of 47 fire engines, nine water tenders, nine bulldozers, five helicopters, 10 hand crews, 14 dispatchers and two incident management teams are now in place across Southern California.
The already high risk of wildfires in San Diego County could soon jump with the arrival of La Niña, a natural, periodic form of climate change that can produce periods of unusually dry weather.
The National Weather Service has issued a watch that says that La Niña could take hold in October and last into early next year. The western half of the county is currently experiencing severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. The eastern half is in extreme drought.
An intense late-summer heat wave will descend on inland San Diego County this week, generating dangerously high temperatures in some locations into the weekend, forecasters advised Tuesday.
The expected onset of scorching conditions prompted the National Weather Service to issue an extreme-heat warning for local desert communities, effective from 10 a.m. Wednesday to 8 p.m. Saturday. Over the period, daily highs in those areas could reach 110 to 116 degrees, the NWS said.
The mercury will soar into the triple digits across parts of San Diego County later this week, prompting the National Weather Service to issue an Extreme Heat Watch for the region.
The Extreme Heat Watch for San Diego County mountains and deserts begins at 10 a.m. Thursday and concludes to 8 p.m. Friday. However, temps are expected to remain elevated through the weekend.
ESCONDIDO, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — The robust plan to start rebuilding Lake Hodges dam has come to a screeching halt as a new cost analysis has just jumped from $275 million to between roughly $500 million and $700 million.
Now, the San Diego Water Authority says they will no longer cover their promised half of the repairs, and the City of San Diego is now weighing alternatives to repairing the 106-year-old dam.
