A water main running along a hillside between two residential streets burst Monday causing a mudslide that flooded nearly a dozen Midway District homes and displaced residents. The 8-inch concrete main broke between Larga Circle and Oleander Drive around 2:30 p.m. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) told NBC 7 that four homes on Oleander […]
The daytime high in San Diego hit 83 degrees on Monday, the 17th straight day that the high was 80 or above, says the National Weather Service says. And the same is likely to happen on Tuesday. A high pressure system and unusually warm ocean temperatures are fueling the hot stretch, and there’s little relief […]
South Bay cities are preparing to go head-to-head with the federal government this week in a legal battle that could force the Trump administration to plug sewage spilling from Tijuana into San Diego. Local officials filed the lawsuit in March after demanding for more than a year that federal infrastructure along the border be beefed […]
A lawsuit in California’s Imperial Valley could determine who controls the single largest share of Colorado River water in the West — a few hundred landowning farmers, or the elected five-member board of the Imperial Irrigation District. But a newly obtained document shows that the farmer who filed the lawsuit, Mike Abatti, was willing to sidestep that explosive legal […]
Water Main Break Floods Midway Homes with Water and Mud
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /NBC 7 San Diegoby Omari FlemingA water main running along a hillside between two residential streets burst Monday causing a mudslide that flooded nearly a dozen Midway District homes and displaced residents. The 8-inch concrete main broke between Larga Circle and Oleander Drive around 2:30 p.m. The San Diego Fire-Rescue Department (SDFD) told NBC 7 that four homes on Oleander […]
San Diego’s Daytime High Hits 80-or-Above Range for the 17th Straight Day
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Gary RobbinsThe daytime high in San Diego hit 83 degrees on Monday, the 17th straight day that the high was 80 or above, says the National Weather Service says. And the same is likely to happen on Tuesday. A high pressure system and unusually warm ocean temperatures are fueling the hot stretch, and there’s little relief […]
Imperial Beach, Federal Government to Face-off in Court Over Tijuana Sewage Pollution
/in San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /San Diego Union-Tribuneby Joshua Emerson SmithSouth Bay cities are preparing to go head-to-head with the federal government this week in a legal battle that could force the Trump administration to plug sewage spilling from Tijuana into San Diego. Local officials filed the lawsuit in March after demanding for more than a year that federal infrastructure along the border be beefed […]
California Farm Baron Offered To Drop Water Lawsuit — If His Family Got A Special Exemption
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle Falkenthal /Palm Springs Desert Sunby Sammy RothA lawsuit in California’s Imperial Valley could determine who controls the single largest share of Colorado River water in the West — a few hundred landowning farmers, or the elected five-member board of the Imperial Irrigation District. But a newly obtained document shows that the farmer who filed the lawsuit, Mike Abatti, was willing to sidestep that explosive legal […]