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The Water News Network is San Diego County’s source for water news and information.
Transfers Of Canisters Filled With Nuclear Waste Resume At San Onofre
/in Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribune by Rob NikolewskiAlmost one year after a 50-ton canister filled with nuclear waste got wedged inside a storage cavity and was left suspended on a metal flange about 18 feet from the ground, the operator of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, also known as SONGS, announced Monday the resumption of transfer operations at the now-shuttered plant. […]
Report: SD County Faces Dramatic Spike In Heat Without Climate-Change Action
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /KPBSAbsent significant global action to address climate change, San Diego County — and other regions across the country — will see dramatic spikes in annual extreme-heat days by the end of the century, according to a report released Tuesday by a scientific advocacy group. The report by the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit group that […]
Cabazon, Twenty-Nine Palms Tribes Create Air Quality Monitoring Station In Indio
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Desert Sunby Risa JohnsonThe Cabazon and Twenty-Nine Palms tribes have joined together to create an air-quality monitoring station in Indio to keep residents better informed about their health. Air quality is a concern in the Coachella Valley, where high levels of smog from Los Angeles hovers and toxic dust rises from the nearby Salton Sea as the water recedes. For the tribes, that […]
IID Votes To Lower Conserved Water Payments To Farmers
/in Home Headline, Media Coverage, San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The Desert Reviewby Betty Miller Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityAfter nearly two hours of contentious debate, the Imperial Irrigation District board voted unanimously July 9 on a hybrid plan to lower payments made to farmers for their on-farm conservation program. The purpose for conserving water was not necessarily the drought conditions of the past two decades, but the 2003 QSA in which the San […]