Ag Alert: What types of solutions are being built into the plans to bring a basin into sustainability?Ravazzini: As of this date, DWR has not received any plans for review. What DWR is looking for upon submission of the plan is that a GSA (groundwater sustainability agency) has developed a path toward sustainability. How GSAs […]
In the heart of Cameron Park sits a neighborhood of homes with some of the widest streets in the county. The homes all have garages with doors wide enough to let a full airplane park inside. That is what the neighborhood is known for: The streets double as runways and the residents all fly. Jim […]
With roughly two and a half months remaining before a state-mandated deadline, local agencies overseeing critically overdrafted groundwater basins are working to finalize sustainability plans as required by a 2014 state law. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, requires local groundwater sustainability agencies in critically overdrafted basins to submit their plans by next Jan. […]
Normally between Oct. 1 and mid-November, if historical averages are any guide, the Bay Area has received nearly 2 inches of rain, and Los Angeles and Fresno each have received about an inch. But so far this year? None. To be sure, there was one-hundredth of an inch recorded in San Jose and San Francisco […]
On a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock on his door. Two workers from a utility company in northern Nebraska had come with a stark warning: Get out of your house. Just a little over a quarter-mile upstream, the 92-year-old Spencer Dam was straining to contain the swollen, ice-covered Niobrara River […]
Westlands Water District, a sprawling San Joaquin Valley farm district with ties to the Trump administration, is poised to get a permanent entitlement to a massive quantity of cheap federal irrigation supplies. Westlands is the first in line to permanently lock in its contract for Central Valley Project deliveries under a 2016 law. Other valley […]
Online Extra: Q-and-A on Sustainable Groundwater Management
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /AgAlertAg Alert: What types of solutions are being built into the plans to bring a basin into sustainability?Ravazzini: As of this date, DWR has not received any plans for review. What DWR is looking for upon submission of the plan is that a GSA (groundwater sustainability agency) has developed a path toward sustainability. How GSAs […]
New Law Requires California Dams to Have Emergency Plans — But Do They?
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /KCRA by David ManoucheriIn the heart of Cameron Park sits a neighborhood of homes with some of the widest streets in the county. The homes all have garages with doors wide enough to let a full airplane park inside. That is what the neighborhood is known for: The streets double as runways and the residents all fly. Jim […]
Groundwater: Deadline Nears for Completion of Local Plans
/in California and the U.S., Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /AgAlertby Christine SouzaWith roughly two and a half months remaining before a state-mandated deadline, local agencies overseeing critically overdrafted groundwater basins are working to finalize sustainability plans as required by a 2014 state law. The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, requires local groundwater sustainability agencies in critically overdrafted basins to submit their plans by next Jan. […]
Bay Area Rainfall: When Is It Coming And When Should We Start To Worry?
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /The Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.)by Paul RogersNormally between Oct. 1 and mid-November, if historical averages are any guide, the Bay Area has received nearly 2 inches of rain, and Los Angeles and Fresno each have received about an inch. But so far this year? None. To be sure, there was one-hundredth of an inch recorded in San Jose and San Francisco […]
At Least 1,680 Dams Across The US Pose Potential Risk
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /AP Newsby David A. Lieb, Michael Casey, and Michelle MinkoffOn a cold morning last March, Kenny Angel got a frantic knock on his door. Two workers from a utility company in northern Nebraska had come with a stark warning: Get out of your house. Just a little over a quarter-mile upstream, the 92-year-old Spencer Dam was straining to contain the swollen, ice-covered Niobrara River […]
Feds Set To Lock In Huge Water Contract For Well-Connected Westlands Water District
/in California and the U.S., Home Headline, Media Coverage /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Times by Bettina BoxallWestlands Water District, a sprawling San Joaquin Valley farm district with ties to the Trump administration, is poised to get a permanent entitlement to a massive quantity of cheap federal irrigation supplies. Westlands is the first in line to permanently lock in its contract for Central Valley Project deliveries under a 2016 law. Other valley […]