The heavy rains and snow falling on California this year are enabling the Bureau of Reclamation to boost water deliveries to growers on the west side of Fresno County.The Bureau of Reclamation announced Wednesday that it will supply South-of-Delta growers with 65% of their contracted water total. “This has been a great year for California’s […]
Geraci proposes we forget about the birds and salinity of the Salton Sea and concentrate “limited resources” on human-related mitigation to the sea’s decline. He finds much fault with the state’s 10-year Plan commitment to 50 percent of the acreage mitigated being aquatic, which he contends is 20 times as expensive as playa mitigation accomplished […]
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a plan to cut back on the use of water from the Colorado River, which serves 40 million people in the U.S. West. The Colorado River drought contingency plan aims to keep two key reservoirs, Lakes Powell and Mead, from falling so low they cannot deliver water or produce […]
Fourteen states, including New York and California, and the District of Columbia said the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to replace an Obama-era water regulation would end federal protection for half of wetlands and 15 percent of streams across the country. The attorneys general issued a joint statement on Monday critical of the EPA’s proposal to […]
Six months after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, the town of Paradise remains a disaster zone. Only 6 percent of the debris from last November’s Camp Fire has been hauled away. Burned-out skeletons of cars, piles of toxic rubble and blackened old-growth pine trees can still be seen everywhere. Before the […]
EPA won’t regulate any pollution to surface waters that passes through groundwater. The Clean Water Act regulates pollution to surface water and requires permits for so-called point-source discharges to them. But questions have remained about whether the law regulates any pollution that ends up in surface waters, or only direct discharges.EPA now says it’s the […]
West-Side Water Ticks Up to 65% of Allocation. Is It Too Little, Too Late?
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The GVwire (Fresno)The heavy rains and snow falling on California this year are enabling the Bureau of Reclamation to boost water deliveries to growers on the west side of Fresno County.The Bureau of Reclamation announced Wednesday that it will supply South-of-Delta growers with 65% of their contracted water total. “This has been a great year for California’s […]
OPINION: Salton Sea 10-year ‘Rescue’ Plan Flawed, But Letting Lake Revert To Desert Would Be Folly
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Desert Sunby Bob Terry,Geraci proposes we forget about the birds and salinity of the Salton Sea and concentrate “limited resources” on human-related mitigation to the sea’s decline. He finds much fault with the state’s 10-year Plan commitment to 50 percent of the acreage mitigated being aquatic, which he contends is 20 times as expensive as playa mitigation accomplished […]
Trump Signs Colorado River Drought Plan
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Associated Pressby Jonathan J. CooperPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a plan to cut back on the use of water from the Colorado River, which serves 40 million people in the U.S. West. The Colorado River drought contingency plan aims to keep two key reservoirs, Lakes Powell and Mead, from falling so low they cannot deliver water or produce […]
States Say Half Of Wetlands Would Lose Protection Under EPA Proposal
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Reuters by Valerie VolcoviciFourteen states, including New York and California, and the District of Columbia said the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to replace an Obama-era water regulation would end federal protection for half of wetlands and 15 percent of streams across the country. The attorneys general issued a joint statement on Monday critical of the EPA’s proposal to […]
Despite Warnings Of Contaminated Water, Some Paradise Residents Are Moving Back
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /KQED News (San Francisco)by Kirk SieglerSix months after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California history, the town of Paradise remains a disaster zone. Only 6 percent of the debris from last November’s Camp Fire has been hauled away. Burned-out skeletons of cars, piles of toxic rubble and blackened old-growth pine trees can still be seen everywhere. Before the […]
EPA Won’t Regulate Pollution That Moves Through Groundwater
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /E & E News (Washington, D.C.)by Ariel Wittenberg and Ellen M. GilmerEPA won’t regulate any pollution to surface waters that passes through groundwater. The Clean Water Act regulates pollution to surface water and requires permits for so-called point-source discharges to them. But questions have remained about whether the law regulates any pollution that ends up in surface waters, or only direct discharges.EPA now says it’s the […]