At the Kern County Water Summit held last week, hosted by the Water Association of Kern County, Acting Deputy Director of the Department of Water Resources Statewide Groundwater Management Program Steven Springhorn provided an update on the Department’s progress on...
From the Department of Water Resources: In response to worsening drought conditions in California, today the Department of Water Resources (DWR) began construction on a temporary emergency drought barrier on the West False River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The...
This month, Pearls digs into some nuances of Delta smelt monitoring—and how we can get more bang from our sampling buck—in three related articles from San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science. Plus, new research on salmon survival and flow volume....
From the State Water Board: On June 1, 2021, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) issued an order that approves, subject to conditions, the changes requested in a Temporary Urgency Change Petition (TUCP) filed by the California...
From the Department of Water Resources: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) undertook the Your Delta, Your Voice survey to gather input from Tribal members and disadvantaged, minority, low-income, and otherwise underrepresented community members who live or work in the Delta. The objective...