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Lindo Lake County Park to Get New Pier, Trees, Birdwatch Station, Better Water

/in , , /by /Times of San Diegoby City News Service

San Diego County crews began construction Friday on a $11.2 million project intended to rejuvenate and improve Lakeside’s popular Lindo Lake County Park. Improvements at the 55-acre park will include a new fishing pier and birdwatching stations, hundreds of native trees and improved water quality in the lake’s east basin by removing more than 200,000 tons of sediment — enough to cover nearly five football fields 12 feet high — which has accrued for decades.

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Opinion: Desalination Plant in Orange County Will Help Ensure Clean Drinking Water

/in , , /by /CalMattersby Gloria Alvarado

Although these days no one seems to agree on anything, there is one thing we can all agree on: every Californian should have a right to clean drinking water. But even with that, California is facing an impending water shortage.

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Opinion: The Devastating Implications From Rollbacks of the Clean Water Act

/in , , /by /CalMattersby Ashley Overhouse

Here in California, rivers are a cornerstone of our landscapes. On a recent rafting trip down Northern California’s Yuba River, I was lucky to see eagles flying overhead and salmon spawning beneath our boat. Experiences like this remind me to appreciate the protections that keep our water clean and safe, and help habitats thrive.

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Surfrider Foundation Opens New Water Quality Monitoring Lab in Carlsbad

/in , /by /Times of San Diegoby Debbie L. Sklar

The San Diego County chapter of the Surfrider Foundation announced a new water quality monitoring lab in Carlsbad Tuesday, as well as three new water quality testing sites along beaches in North County.

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EPA Announces $108M to Improve Water Quality in the California Delta

/in , , /by /Water World

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $108 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) loan to the Stockton Public Financing Authority to help modernize the city’s wastewater treatment facility and reduce nitrogen discharges to the San Joaquin River. With this loan, EPA is supporting a regionally significant project that will improve water quality and support public health and the economies of the California Delta.

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As Wildfires Ravage the West, Contaminated Water Raises Health Concerns

/in , , /by /Stat Newsby Priyanka Runwal

A few weeks after the devastating 2017 Tubbs Fire raged through parts of northern California, Gerald and Serene Buhrz returned to their Santa Rosa home, turned on the kitchen sink faucet, and were hit with a stinging smell.

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California Tightens Reporting for Rocket Fuel Chemical in Water

/in , , /by /Bloomberg Lawby Emily C. Dooley

California water regulators on Tuesday cut the level at which water suppliers must report detecting perchlorate, a chemical used in rocket fuel, fireworks, airbags, and other products. The federal Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year declined to regulate perchlorate, which has been linked to thyroid conditions.

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Unsafe to Drink: Wildfires Threaten Rural Towns With Tainted Water

/in , , /by /CalMattersby Rachel Becker

For more than a month after a wildfire raced through his lakeside community and destroyed his Napa County home, Kody Petrini couldn’t drink the water from the taps. He wasn’t even supposed to boil it. And, worried about harming his 16-month-old, Petrini wouldn’t wash his youngest son Levi with it.

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Rural California Communities Struggle To Provide Clean Drinking Water

/in , /by /SF Gateby Kiley Russell

Mo Mohsin has been trying to bring clean drinking water to the residents of the Cobles Corner mobile home park ever since he bought the property back in 2003. The struggle, however, has been all uphill.

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After Wildfires Stop Burning, a Danger in the Drinking Water

/in , , /by /The New York Timesby Max Horberry

Two months after a wildfire burned through Paradise, Calif., in 2018, Kevin Phillips, then a manager for town’s irrigation district, walked from one destroyed home to another.

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