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Olivenhain Municipal Water District has teamed up with the Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection to present a free water and fire-wise landscape education event on July 30 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The event, at Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District’s Station 2, 16930 Four Gee Road, celebrates the station’s newly completed fire-wise and water-smart garden, which OMWD helped construct. The garden was installed by Blue Skies Landscape Maintenance.

Starting Aug. 1 Carlsbad Municipal Water District customers can use their sprinklers three times a week, for up to 10 minutes per station, on days assigned based on street addresses, according to a city press release.

Water officials say the change reflects the fact that Carlsbad has enough water on hand for the immediate future, but that using water wisely should be an ongoing way of life in our desert climate, according to the release. Under the new schedule, odd addresses may water on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday and even addresses on Monday, Thursday and Saturday.

 

A Heat wave that’s expected to push temperatures into the triple digits will bake Southern California through the weekend, the National Weather Service said.

The high temperatures will come filled with monsoonal moisture from a system sweeping over Arizona and Texas, giving the heat wave a humid, sticky feel, NWS meteorologist Kathy Hoxsie said. “This is a reminder that we’re in summer, and this is exactly the time of year to expect our hotter temperatures,” Hoxsie said.

Local water quality officials proposed on Tuesday fining San Diego $4.6 million for allegedly allowing private construction sites to pollute sensitive waterways, including the Los Peñasquitos Lagoon.

Over a period of nearly five years, city officials failed to conduct proper site inspections, prevent harmful sediment erosion and enforce the city’s water quality ordinances at multiple sites, according to the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.

The Imperial Irrigation District, which could lose its authority over transmission lines across its service area, has adopted a resolution formally opposing the state’s plan to regionalize the California power grid.

The board of directors said the California Independent System Operator’s proposal to expand the power grid to six other Western states is not in the best interest of the public and should be scrapped.