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City Council Plans To Sue Federal Government Over Tijuana Sewage Spills

/in /by /NBC San Diegoby Cassia Pollock

The San Diego City Council has announced plans Wednesday to sue the federal government over millions of gallons of raw sewage that poured into the Tijuana River. City Councilmember David Alvarez said that the City of San Diego will join forces with the cities of Chula Vista and Imperial Beach, along with the Port of San Diego, in taking the first step to prevent sewage spills in the future. The city will file a Notice of Intent to sue the federal government and the International Boundary and Water Commission, he announced.

 

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Clear The Air Coalition’s Ties To Sempra Aren’t Always Clear To The Public

/in /by /Voice Of San Diegoby Ry Rivard

A new group known as the Clear the Air coalition has risen up to discourage the city of San Diego from taking on San Diego Gas & Electric. The city wants 100 percent of electricity sold within city limits to come from renewable sources by 2035. SDG&E argues that it’s too risky and too expensive to abandon natural gas-fired power right now. So, the city is thinking about buying energy for its 1.4 million residents by becoming a community choice aggregator, or CCA. The City Council could vote on the switch in the next several months.

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Poseidon Water To Collaborate With Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory To Research And Develop New Water Technologies

/in /by /Orange County Breeze Mentioned: Carlsbad Desalination Plant

Poseidon Water announced a collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to support the development of new water technologies to lower the energy requirements, environmental impacts, and costs of water
treatment. Poseidon has offered to share access and operating data from the Carlsbad and proposed Huntington Beach desalination facilities to allow for the development and testing of new water technologies.

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Bad Taste, Smell of Water Draws Complaints in Vista, Escondido

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

An equipment glitch at a North County water treatment plant is most likely behind the disagreeable taste and smell some have noticed in Vista and Escondido tap water for more than a week — but the unpleasantness should taper off in a day or so, water officials said Tuesday. Officials with the water districts that serve the two cities underscored that the water has been and remains safe and that the problem was aesthetic only.

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OPINION: Editorial: San Diego’s Filthy Water Woes: Enough is Enough

/in /by /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby Union-Tribune Editorial Board

The pollution coming from the Tijuana region that has fouled the waters and beaches of San Diego County shouldn’t be accepted as the price of living next door to a nation with weaker environmental enforcement than the United States. That’s why area residents should welcome news that the Port of San Diego, Imperial Beach and Chula Vista have filed a notice of intent to sue the federal government for failing to address the problem adequately.

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Water Authority Forecasts Adequate Supply, Continuing Conservation in 2018

/in /by /Times of San Diego Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The San Diego County Water Authority is forecasting adequate supplies and expecting continued conservation efforts as California begins the 2018 water year on Sunday. “Thanks to remarkably wet conditions last winter, the 2018 water year will begin with improved supply conditions at the water authority’s two imported water sources – the Colorado River and the Sierra Nevada,” the authority said in a statement. In addition, the region can count on the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, and is prepared with high storage levels in many local reservoirs.

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Court Rules Metropolitan Water Rates to San Diego Will Remain

/in /by /The Desert Review (Imperial Valley) Quoted: Mark Muir

The California Supreme Court denied a petition by the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) September 27 to review an appellate court ruling in a case over rates set by the Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, according to the SDCWA website. For years, San Diego water officials argued the region’s major supplier of water, the Metropolitan Water District overcharged to deliver water to San Diego from the Colorado River. On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court declined to take up the case, leaving a lower court ruling siding with Metropolitan in place, according to the San Diego Voice.

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Researchers Map Wells Across The West And Estimate 1 Out Of Every 30 Has Gone Dry

/in /by /The Desert Sun (Palm Springs)by Ian James

During California’s severe five-year drought, groundwater levels fell to record lows and people in farming communities from Tulare County to Paso Robles saw their wells go dry.  Now researchers have analyzed records for about 2 million wells across 17 western states from Texas to Oregon, and they estimate that one out of every 30 wells was dry between 2013 and 2015.  The researchers also found dry wells were concentrated in farming areas such as California’s Central Valley and the High Plains. In some areas, they estimated that up to one-fifth of wells were dry.

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OPINION: Harmful Water Bills Held Over… A Momentary Flicker of Hope For Water Users

/in /by /Valley Roadrunner (Valley Center)

At some point in the early morning hours of Saturday, September 16, 2017, the California Legislative Session ended with a flicker of hope for there being some sanity, rational thought and common sense about water in the Capital City, Sacramento. Three bills, SB 623, (Monning – Carmel, CA), SB 606 (Hertzberg – Van Nuys, CA) and AB 1668 (Friedman – Glendale, CA) all failed passage and will be held over as two year bills to be taken back up in 2018. So why is this important to you?

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San Luis Rey Water Settlement: Tribes, Cities Are Now ‘Joined At The Hip’

/in /by /Valley Roadrunner (Valley Center) Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

On Monday, one time antagonists of a 50-year battle in the courts over right rights, who eventually became friends and allies, celebrated the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement. They included representatives of the Rincon, Pala, Pauma, San Pasqual and La Jolla tribes, the City of Escondido, Vista Irrigation District and the San Luis Rey Indian Water Authority, whose chairman is Bo Mazzetti, chairman of the Rincon tribe.

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