The environmental documents, due mid-summer, are about 3200 pages plus appendices In April of 2020, the Delta Independent Science Board...
For the Central Valley Project and the State Water Project to comply with the federal Endangered Species Act, the Bureau...
Welcome to Five Questions, a new (hopefully) weekly series that will pose five questions to folks working on California water issues. The series kicks off with John McManus, president of the Golden State Salmon Association, which bills itself as California’s...
Panel discusses temporary urgency change petitions, transfers, and drought litigation As California enters the second year of dry conditions, many...
by Alastair Bland, Estuary News Group The days when salmon and steelhead teemed in California’s coastal watersheds faded away last...
At the May 24th meeting of the State Water Resources Control Board, Delta Watermaster Michael George updated the board members on the changes to water use reporting schedules, the Delta Dry Year Response Pilot Program, the investigation into alleged unlawful...
The Delta is an intricate network of waterways, canals, and sloughs connecting the Sierra Nevada watershed with the San Francisco...
Dr. Peter Moyle is a distinguished professor emeritus and Associate Director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. ...
[cmtoc_table_of_contents] In January of 2022, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) released their assessments of the groundwater sustainability plans for the critically overdrafted groundwater basins, approving eight of them and determining twelve to be incomplete. Those basins have until July...
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, was passed in 2014 during a period of critically dry years; the legislation...
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Lead Scientist Dr. Laurel Larsen highlighted research on juvenile salmon...
“You can’t just dare the board to come after you. You have to pay your fees, and you have to get into these programs.” –Patrick Pulupa, Executive Officer, Central Valley Regional Water Board In May 2018, the Central Valley Water...
At the April meeting of the Delta Stewardship Council during a public hearing, the Council voted to deny the appeal...
Staff presents results from the ongoing statewide PFAS investigations Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (or PFAS) are a group of manufactured...
Attorneys Richard Roos-Collins, Doug Obegi, Jennifer Buckman, and Peter Prows discuss the pros and cons of the voluntary agreements Voluntary agreements offer a potential alternative to flow standards imposed unilaterally by state agencies on water users. In theory, the agreements...