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WATER ASSOC. OF KERN COUNTY: The nuts and bolts of the CV-SALTS program

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January 29, 2020
446
Presentation at Kern County event discusses the implementation of the newly-adopted salt and nitrate management plan for the Central Valley On October 16, 2019 the State Water Resources Control Board voted to ... Read More...

STATE OF THE ESTUARY: CA’s Safer Consumer Products Program: Overview and efforts to protect aquatic health

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December 12, 2019
212
In 2013, the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Safer Consumer Products regulations outlined a framework for the Department to regulate product-chemical combinations that require manufacturers to evaluate... Read More...

CV-SALTS: An overview of the salt and nitrate permitting changes proposed for the Central Valley

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October 8, 2019
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An evaporation pond in Kings County, a portion of the San Joaquin Valley, with a groundwater basin which is internally drained and closed basin. It has no appreciable surface or subsurface outflow, expect in w... Read More...

BROWN BAG SEMINAR: Managing water quality across boundaries

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September 26, 2019
196
Bay Bridge at night; photo by David Yu There are numerous agencies involved in water quality issues that are focused on the San Francisco Bay and the Delta.  In this brown bag seminar, Stephanie Fong, Inter... Read More...

BAY DELTA SCIENCE CONFERENCE: A Review of Water Quality Science in the Delta: Chemical contaminants and nutrients

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January 11, 2019
186
As part of its charge to review science activities that support adaptive management in the Delta, the Delta Independent Science Board (DISB) has completed a review of the scientific basis for assessing water qu... Read More...

WEBINAR: Water Quality Concerns in Western Forests and Rangelands

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March 21, 2018
162
Sierra National Forest (Photo by Steve Haze, Sierra Resource Conservation District) Webinar looks at what is being done to reduce impacts the impacts of wildfires on water quality and ecosystem health Water ... Read More...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Public hearings on proposed withdrawal of certain water quality criteria applicable to California

Maven
December 12, 2017
77
From the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board: EPA is proposing to amend federal regulations to withdraw certain federal water quality criteria for lead, chlorodibromomethane, and dichlorobrom... Read More...

THIS JUST IN … California Fisheries Groups Sue State for Failure to Protect Impaired Waterways

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November 2, 2017
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From the Institute for Fisheries Resources: Today four commercial fisheries organizations filed a lawsuit accusing the California State Water Resources Control Board (the Water Board) of failing to fulfill the... Read More...

THIS JUST IN … River Defenders File Lawsuit to Protect California’s Waterways

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November 1, 2017
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Suit seeks state compliance with the Clean Water Act and CEQA From the Earth Law Center: Today, a coalition of river defenders filed a lawsuit against the State Water Resources Control Board for its failure ... Read More...

ANNOUNCEMENT: Notice of opportunity to comment: Central Valley MUN evaluation

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October 2, 2017
37
From the State Water Resources Control Board: The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) will accept comments on the proposed approval of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Bo... Read More...

CA WATER POLICY CONFERENCE: Salty buildup: The threat to California’s water

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August 9, 2017
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Panel discusses the pervasive problem of salinity and irrigated agriculture, and what can be done about it Salinity is a slow-moving but critical problem.  It is most challenging in regions that have constra... Read More...

DPR scientists tackling troubling urban pesticide runoff

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August 8, 2017
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From the California Department of Pesticide Regulation: Agricultural pesticide runoff grabs headlines, but did you know that urban pesticide use can also pollute California creeks and rivers? Determining ... Read More...

Delta nutrients: Sources, sinks, sags, soups, and sensors

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November 10, 2016
688
Delta Lead Scientist Cliff Dahm discusses sources and effects of nutrients in the Delta Increasing clarity of waters, the emergence of harmful algal blooms, the proliferation of aquatic water weeds, and altere... Read More...

How the San Francisco Bay Regional Monitoring Program integrates research and monitoring of mercury and methylmercury

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September 1, 2016
257
Dr. Jay Davis highlights studies to determine where the greatest potential exists to address methylmercury in the San Francisco Bay The Regional Monitoring Program (RMP) for the San Francisco Bay is a collabor... Read More...

Overview of mine remediation in the Bay-Delta Ecosystem

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August 24, 2016
488
New Idria mine (photo by Tom Hilton) California is making progress on remediating abandoned mine sites, says Carrie Austin, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Board The California Gold Rush, begun in 1849, bro... Read More...
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