By Alan Riquelmy, Courthouse News The drive to the UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains shouldn’t have been easy this week. Snow in late December at the Soda Springs facility, at 6,800 feet, should have...
California’s water year, which began October 1, is off to a dry start with below average precipitation in October and November From the Department of Water Resources: Today, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced an initial State Water Project...
By Peter Hecht, Ag Alert California reservoirs are brimming at historic levels after a water year described as akin to a “miracle.” Lake Shasta, the largest reservoir in the federal Central Valley Project that provides water to over 3 million...
This periodically recurring atmospheric phenomenon in recent years has become just too unreliable to count on. By Robert Krier, Voice of San Diego El Niño, once feared and nearly revered, has lost cachet. It poses the threat of massive, damaging...
Allocation remains at 260,000 acre-feet; need for curtailment diverted From the Bureau of Reclamation: Reclamation announced today that the Klamath Project water supply allocation, originally announced on April 13 and increased on May 19, will remain at 260,000 acre-feet and...
