Two San Diego County Water Authority employees took home first place honors in the annual – and unusual – competition that tests the mettle of public works professionals with backhoes, wheelbarrows and other tools of the trade. And one Water Authority veteran – Bobby Bond Jr. – earned the title of 2018 Master Operator for […]
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 […]
Water Authority A Winner At Skills Competition
/in Achievements, Features, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Gayle FalkenthalTwo San Diego County Water Authority employees took home first place honors in the annual – and unusual – competition that tests the mettle of public works professionals with backhoes, wheelbarrows and other tools of the trade. And one Water Authority veteran – Bobby Bond Jr. – earned the title of 2018 Master Operator for […]
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 […]