/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /89.3 KPCC (Pasadena)by Scott Smith, Rich Pedroncelli, and Emily Guerin
Surveyors plunged a pole into the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday and took the first manual measurement of the wet season, finding water content was about half of normal as California flirts with a possible sixth year of drought. Surveyors took the reading at 6,000 feet near Lake Tahoe as major cold and windy storms […]
Thousands – perhaps tens of thousands – of California businesses are polluting streams, bays and the ocean, but state environmental regulators don’t know how many companies are doing how much damage. In places like Logan Heights or National City, industry-filled neighborhoods send metals and toxic chemicals into the water, helping to ruin it for humans […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby Matt Stevens Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
On a picturesque summer afternoon, West Basin Municipal Water District officials chose to woo regulators with a stroll by the beach in El Segundo, stopping to admire an unadulterated strip of California coastline. “It is beautiful,” said Diane Gatza, West Basin’s water resources engineer. A few hours later, environmental advocates held a town hall two […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Valley Roadrunner (Valley Center)by David Ross Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
Your water rates are going up after January 1. Here’s why. Valley Center Municipal Water District (VCMWD) customers in 2017 will be hit by a series of water rate and fixed charge increases after the first of the New Year that are all higher than the annual rate of inflation, but which reflect real price […]
Digging For Signs Of Drought: California Snowpack Comes In Low
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /89.3 KPCC (Pasadena)by Scott Smith, Rich Pedroncelli, and Emily GuerinSurveyors plunged a pole into the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday and took the first manual measurement of the wet season, finding water content was about half of normal as California flirts with a possible sixth year of drought. Surveyors took the reading at 6,000 feet near Lake Tahoe as major cold and windy storms […]
California’s Stormwater Regulations Are Themselves a Toxic Mess
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Voice of San Diegoby Ry RivardThousands – perhaps tens of thousands – of California businesses are polluting streams, bays and the ocean, but state environmental regulators don’t know how many companies are doing how much damage. In places like Logan Heights or National City, industry-filled neighborhoods send metals and toxic chemicals into the water, helping to ruin it for humans […]
L.A. County Is Looking To Local Sources For Water. Is A South Bay Desalination Plant The Answer?
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Timesby Matt Stevens Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityOn a picturesque summer afternoon, West Basin Municipal Water District officials chose to woo regulators with a stroll by the beach in El Segundo, stopping to admire an unadulterated strip of California coastline. “It is beautiful,” said Diane Gatza, West Basin’s water resources engineer. A few hours later, environmental advocates held a town hall two […]
Water Rates Going Up 6.9% For Residential, 8.3% For Growers
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Valley Roadrunner (Valley Center)by David Ross Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityYour water rates are going up after January 1. Here’s why. Valley Center Municipal Water District (VCMWD) customers in 2017 will be hit by a series of water rate and fixed charge increases after the first of the New Year that are all higher than the annual rate of inflation, but which reflect real price […]