From DWR News: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) is using the latest genetic technologies to more accurately identify endangered fish at the State Water Project pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Along with improved accuracy to quickly determine whether...
By DWR News The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is using a unique piece of State Water Project (SWP) infrastructure for the first time since 2006 to reduce the amount of flood waters going into Tulare Lake in the...
The $4 billion project is designed to draw water from the Sacramento River — but only during major storm surges. By Becki Robins, Undark In January, a series of storms pummeled California, causing floods, mudslides, and widespread power outages. In...
By Gary Pitzer, US Bureau of Reclamation California’s winter storms have blasted the Sierra Nevada with a thick blanket of snow. That ample snowpack has been subsequently pelted with rain, pushing some of it downhill as runoff through ravines, canyons,...
By Lois Henry, SJV Water An unfinished section of the new Friant-Kern Canal suffered a “severe breach” at Deer Creek in Tulare County Friday night as the normally dry creek swelled with rain and snowmelt and overran its banks into...
