With the ever-changing climate and increasingly dry summers, California faces water challenges, despite this year’s bountiful snowpack. At the February...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water Jack Mitchell’s phone is ringing off the hook these days, but he almost always picks...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … MEETING: State Water Resources Control Board beginning at 9:30am. Agenda items include ocean acidification, a public hearing on the draft 2024 CWA 303(d) impaired waterbody listing recommendations, drought update and current hydrologic condtions, and...
By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation California’s winter storms have blasted the Sierra Nevada with a thick blanket of...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] California storms … A 12th atmospheric river is headed toward storm-fatigued California, threatening even more floods “Still reeling from...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water The drama was high on the Tulare Lake bed Saturday as flood waters pushed some landowners to resort to heavy handed and, in one instance, illegal tactics, to try and keep their farm ground dry...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water After days of debate and delay the Kings County Board of Supervisors ordered a levee...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] California storms continue … Dual storms to swipe California with flooding rain, mountain snow “The end of winter will...
By Gregory Weaver, Fresnoland In Fresno and Madera counties, it was smaller streams and snowmelt that caused most of the flooding and other issues brought on by the latest spate of atmospheric rivers pummeling the state. That was especially true...
The decision to suspend environmental regulations for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta – and then reverse it a few weeks later...
Despite reversing course last week, the February decision by Gov. Gavin Newsom and state water officials to bypass environmental rules...
A wrap-up of posts published on Maven’s Notebook this week … Note to readers: Sign up for weekly email service and you will receive notification of this post on Friday mornings. Readers on daily email service can add weekly email...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] On the calendar today … WEBINAR: Colorado River Basin Governance, Decision Making, and Alternative Approaches from 12pm to 1pm. ...
By Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....
By the Department of Fish & Wildlife: Under cover of darkness and with a series of cold, late-winter storms building, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) staff gingerly released approximately 1.1 million fall-run Chinook salmon fry (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) into the...