By Dennis Pollock, Ag Alert When a rare heavy rain used to fall on Jim Chew’s Madera County farm, the water would just roll off his pistachio orchard, uncaptured as it drained down a slight slope. Then came the ground...
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) hosted four informational webinars between July and September 2021 to provide background information related to the preparation of the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Delta Conveyance Project. This post covers the third...
At the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) Fall Conference held last week, the keynote speaker at the luncheon was State Water Resources Control Board Vice Chair Dorene D’Adamo, who spoke of the Board’s efforts on water supplies, conservation, and...
Written by Robert Shibatani It’s been over a month since the last AR storms rolled through California. Since then, the State has seen scattered precipitation. During November, Folsom Reservoir received about 0.91 inches of precipitation, Trinity Reservoir received 2.3 inches,...
In California’s Central Valley, studies have found that increased streamflow can improve the survival of imperiled juvenile salmon populations during...
At the November meeting of Metropolitan’s Bay-Delta Committee, Bay-Delta Initiatives Manager Steven Arakawa briefed the committee members on recent communications from elected officials and others regarding the operations of the federal and state water projects and the voluntary agreements. He...
