NOTEBOOK NEWS ARTICLES Archives ~ MAVEN'S NOTEBOOK

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS: Looking at climate change impacts

June 2, 2020

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Conditions in the Delta are changing at a rapid pace and the future is likely to look very different than the present as climate change, sea level rise, a growing population, earthquakes and major flooding, new... Read More...

CA WATER COMMISSION: The 2019 State Water Project Review

Maven

May 28, 2020

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Water Code section 165 requires the California Water Commission to conduct an annual review of the construction and operation of the State Water Project (SWP) and to report its findings and recommendations to t... Read More...

ENVIRO DOCS: A look at the Friant Kern Canal Middle Reach Capacity Correction Project

Maven

May 27, 2020

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Project: Friant Kern Canal Middle Reach Capacity Correction Project to repair a 33-mile section of the Friant-Kern Canal between Milepost 88.2 in Tulare County and Milepost 121.5 in Kern County Documents: ... Read More...

NOTICE OF PREPARATION: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment

Maven

May 26, 2020

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Project: Preparation of environmental documents for the draft Amendments to Delta Plan, Chapter 4: Protect, Restore, Enhance, the Delta Ecosystem Documents: Notice of Preparation, available here. Draf... Read More...

GUEST COMMENTARY: Leave it to Beavers: significant partners in dealing with climate change

Maven

May 21, 2020

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Guest commentary by Gail Sredanovic in consultation with Heidi Perryman Think a babbling clear stream is the only healthy one? Think again. Once hunted almost to extinction, beaver were once much, much more nu... Read More...

FEATURE: Predicting and planning for extreme precipitation from atmospheric rivers

Maven

May 20, 2020

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On Feb. 27, 2019, an atmospheric river 350 miles wide and 1,600 miles long barreled through the sky, funneling moisture from the tropics to Sonoma County and dumping over 21 inches of rain over two days, causin... Read More...

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

Maven

May 13, 2020

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With water availability being an important concern, water managers often use water budgets to quantify and manage water resources. A water budget is an accounting of the rates of the inflows, outflows, and cha... Read More...

CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD: Sacramento-San Joaquin Drainage District Feasibility Study

Maven

May 12, 2020

408

Damaging floods are more common in California than you might think; over the past 60 years, every county has been declared a state or federal flood disaster area multiple times. Central Valley levees have fail... Read More...

DR. LAUREL LARSEN: Just pour water on it? Melting the Wicked Witch of the West and other challenges with restoration science

Maven

May 7, 2020

291

The USGS and Delta Stewardship Council have been recruiting the next Delta Lead Scientist who is appointed by the Council after consultation with the Delta Independent Science Board. As part of the process, ea... Read More...

FEATURE: The state of the salmonids in California

Maven

May 6, 2020

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Webinar takes a deep dive into the state of salmon and steelhead, and provides recommendations for resiliency In 2005, the California Legislature passed SB 857 requiring CalTrans to locate, assess, and remedia... Read More...

DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT: Why not a western alignment?

Maven

May 6, 2020

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Congressman Garamendi pushes for consideration of a western alignment for Delta conveyance; DWR responds In his scoping comments for the Notice of Preparation for the reformulated Delta Conveyance Project, Con... Read More...

CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD: Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project

Maven

May 5, 2020

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Two centuries ago, the floor of the Central Valley was largely a marshy wetland. In the springtime, the snowpack would melt, swelling the rivers beyond their banks and casting young fish out onto the floodplai... Read More...

Restore the Delta webinar on voluntary agreements

Maven

April 30, 2020

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Delta stakeholder group provides history of Delta water quality planning and expresses their concerns over the voluntary agreements In mid-April of 2020, Restore the Delta hosted a webinar where they discussed... Read More...

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Water resources management in the Pajaro Valley Basin

Maven

April 23, 2020

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The Pajaro Valley is home to a billion-dollar agricultural industry, it's rich, fertile soil providing fruits and vegetables for the nation and all grown with groundwater. Located on the Central Coast, the Paj... Read More...

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Removing the dams on the Lower Klamath River

Maven

April 22, 2020

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Compared to most coastal river systems, the Klamath River is upside down. It starts slow and high among the farmlands of eastern Oregon; as it flows through Northern California toward the Pacific, its basin nar... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Open Data: Making Connections for Better Science, Synthesis, and Service

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS: Looking at climate change impacts

DR. LAUREL LARSEN: Just pour water on it? Melting the Wicked Witch of the West and other challenges with restoration science

DR. JAY LUND: Integrated Modeling and Delta Science & Policy

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project: Science and adaptive management in action; Integrating past and future monitoring

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: The Wetlands Regional Monitoring Program: A regional vision for coordinated monitoring

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: Green Infrastructure Implementation Challenges and Opportunities: Navigating Constraints and Issues of Scale

Lessons from Australia's millennium drought

WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: The battle over the raising of Shasta Dam

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Quantifying surface water depletion from groundwater pumping

ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT: A new paradigm for managing California’s freshwater ecosystems

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Federalism and Water under the Trump Administration: Has the Long Peace Come to an End?

WATER ASSOC. OF KERN COUNTY: The nuts and bolts of the CV-SALTS program

SGMA IMPLEMENTATION: Groundwater Sustainability Plan evaluation and State Water Board intervention

DELTA SCIENCE NEEDS: Looking at climate change impacts

CA WATER COMMISSION: The 2019 State Water Project Review

ENVIRO DOCS: A look at the Friant Kern Canal Middle Reach Capacity Correction Project

NOTICE OF PREPARATION: Delta Plan Ecosystem Amendment

GUEST COMMENTARY: Leave it to Beavers: significant partners in dealing with climate change

FEATURE: Predicting and planning for extreme precipitation from atmospheric rivers

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: Developing a water budget

CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD: Sacramento-San Joaquin Drainage District Feasibility Study

DR. LAUREL LARSEN: Just pour water on it? Melting the Wicked Witch of the West and other challenges with restoration science

FEATURE: The state of the salmonids in California

DELTA CONVEYANCE PROJECT: Why not a western alignment?

CENTRAL VALLEY FLOOD PROTECTION BOARD: Yolo Bypass Salmonid Habitat Restoration and Fish Passage Project

Restore the Delta webinar on voluntary agreements

WESTERN GROUNDWATER CONGRESS: Water resources management in the Pajaro Valley Basin

CA WATER LAW SYMPOSIUM: Removing the dams on the Lower Klamath River