• Wednesday’s top of the scroll: Fears linger in language of Delta draft plan

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:15:54
    From the Stockton Record: “City leaders reported progress Tuesday resolving a dispute with a new state agency that they fear will disrupt Stockton’s ability to grow as it sees fit. The Delta Stewardship Council is tasked with writing a long-term plan governing the river estuary through the year 2100. While not yet final, the draft [...]

  • Legal analysis: Appellate Court upholds Administrative Civil Liability order under the Clean Water Act for pollutants that indirectly discharged into waters of the United States

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:10:53
    From Somach Simmons & Dunn: “On October 24, 2012, in Garland v. Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (Oct. 24, 2012, Case No. C067130) 2012 Cal.App. LEXIS 1104 (“Garland”), the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District (“Third District”), clarified the Clean Water Act’s (the “Act”) jurisdiction relating to pollutants indirectly discharged into navigable [...]

  • Blue Sky blog: Could a League of Rivals cure California’s Bay Delta policy blues?

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:07:01
    Fro Blue Sky Mediation & Law blog: “Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin called President Lincoln’s cabinet a “Team of Rivals” because they were a collection of unnatural bedfellows–the “rivals”–working toward the administration’s common goals–the “team”. Present day examples of Teams of Rivals abound. One is the collaborative model that an innovative marine scientist in Massachusetts, David [...]

  • Study: Water takes more energy than lighting

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:55:31
    From My San Antonio: “The United States uses more energy to capture, move, treat and prepare water than for it does for lighting, a new University of Texas at Austin study found. The finding, the study’s authors said Tuesday, could push public policy discussions about how we conserve energy beyond which light bulbs are the [...]

  • Does your stormwater BMP make the grade? Options for testing BMPs and understanding the results

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:54:13
    From Water World: “The past 20 years have shown us that quantifying water quality effectiveness is probably not a bad practice. In guidance provided by the USEPA for improving water quality, the base standard recommended is the removal of 80% of the total suspended solids (TSS) load, which is allowed as a surrogate for actually [...]

  • Hatching a plan for Northwest Salmon: Conference highlights fish stock restoration

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:51:53
    From Indian Country Today: “Fish hatcheries built below the dams in the Pacific Northwest have replenished salmon stocks for downstream and ocean fishermen for decades, while upstream, wild runs where treaty tribes fish have dwindled. Now tribes report that hatcheries can serve another purpose—to restore and strengthen wild stocks by allowing them to breed with [...]

  • Hundreds watch Shasta salmon

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:48:25
    From the Siskiyou Daily News: “Hundreds of visitors, including over 400 local students, attended the Nature Conservancy’s Shasta Big Springs Ranch salmon viewing open house on Friday and Saturday. Visitors came to catch a look at this year’s unusually large run of Shasta River Chinook salmon. The carcass of a salmon, which had already spawned [...]

  • Bibberche blog: Rice: A true story

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:45:53
    From Bibberche: “In the days preceding my trip north to Sacramento Valley with California Farm Water Coalition and the visit to Lundberg Family Farms, I invoked my inner romanticist and historian and conjured up the images of people in wide-brimmed straw hats hip-deep in rice fields, with water buffalo lounging in the muddy shallows of [...]

  • Army Corps: Chico, Gerber area levees don’t meet standards

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:43:43
    From Dredging Today: “Inspections by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District found that 33 miles of levees near Chico and Gerber do not meet Corps operation and maintenance standards. The Sacramento District conducted a periodic inspection of nine levee systems on Mud, Sycamore and Dry Creeks near Chico in December 2010 and Elder [...]

  • Sonoma Valley sewer rates now based on usage

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:29:22
    From the Santa Rosa Press Democrat: “The way sewage rates are levied for many Sonoma Valley residences has been changed to take into account how much sewage they actually discharge, out of fairness and as a way to promote conservation. “It is perceived as being more fair than a flat fee,” said Spencer Bader, business [...]

  • Tahoe project to eliminate Asian clams

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:22:52
    From the San Francisco Chronicle: “The diver rose amid bubbles through the clear, blue-green waters of Emerald Bay on Tuesday and surfaced holding three tiny clams scooped from the sandy bottom of the world-famous estuary on the west shore of Lake Tahoe. The shellfish, each about the size of a large pebble, were Asian clams, [...]

  • UNR professor rephotographs Lake Tahoe (see how it’s changed)

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:16:22
    From the Reno Gazette-Journal: “Lake Tahoe, America’s most pristine Alpine Lake, has been the stunning sapphire-blue equivalent of a pin-up girl to snapshot-taking vacationers for decades. Now, a cache of newly acquired photos of Lake Tahoe made from glass plate negatives that date back to the late-1800s, are being archived for scientific use and for [...]

  • Hetch Hetchy on San Francisco ballot next week

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:58:35
    From the Union Democrat: “San Francisco voters will take the first step in determining the fate of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park and whether city residents will have to find alternate sources of water in a measure to be voted on next week. If passed, Proposition F would require the City and [...]

  • Feds make Pajaro River watershed a priority in steelhead plan

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:55:12
    From the Silicon Valley Mercury News: “Bruce Kobara recalls fishing in the Pajaro River as a kid in the 1950s and ’60s. “I’m old enough to remember how good it used to be and how bad it is now,” said the 64-year-old Kobara, president of the Pajaro Valley Rod and Gun Club. “As a high [...]

  • LaContenta investors against the Calaveras County Water District

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:52:27
    From the Pine Tree News: “.In 2008, the Calaveras County Water District (CCWD) and LaContenta Investors (LCI) entered into an agreement to facilitate water supply to the LaContenta Golf Course. The agreement was crafted in connection with a 2002 Waste Discharge Order from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board in order to supply LCI [...]

  • Commentary: Get out of DWP squeeze play

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:48:18
    From the Sierra Wave, this commentary by Daniel Pritchett: “Members of the Inyo County Board of Supervisors, Water Department, and Planning Department have participated negotiations with DWP and other parties regarding creation of an Owens Lake Master Plan for almost three years. Now, it is time for Inyo County to withdraw from the negotiations. There [...]

  • Arroyo Seco Foundation wins $3.3 million for Hahamongna

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:42:50
    From Pasadena News Now: “The Arroyo Seco Foundation (ASF) has secured $3.3 million in state funding to improve water reliability and environmental conditions in Hahamongna. On Monday night October 29, 2012 the Pasadena City Council approved a series of agreements with the Los Angeles Flood Control District and the Arroyo Seco Foundation. The $3,217,000 grant, [...]

  • Water Replenishment District marks 50th anniversary of water recycling

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:40:47
    From the Los Angeles Wave: “The Water Replenishment District of Southern California marked its 50th anniversary of water recycling at its headquarters here Oct. 25 with its annual State of the District address. “The state of the district is fantastic,” said Albert Robles, chairman of the district’s Board of Directors. He said the regional water [...]

  • Eastern Municipal Water District honored for energy efficiency efforts

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:36:44
    From the Riverside Press-Enterprise: “In recognition of its ongoing energy conservation efforts, The Climate Registry and Southern California Edison have honored Eastern Municipal Water District with the Cool Planet Award, it was recently announced. EMWD was honored in the water and wastewater sector and was one of four organizations to be presented with the Cool [...]

  • Pat Mulroy at the 2012 WaterSmart Innovations Conference

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:34:33
    From Circle of Blue Water News: Patricia Mulroy, general manager of the Las Vegas Valley Water District and the Southern Nevada Water Authority, addresses the 5th Annual WaterSmart Innovations Conference: “Every year I have the opportunity to come and speak to you and say thank you. You know, you guys do an absolutely incredible job, [...]

  • News Feed: Group fights fracking - WPSD Local 6

    Updated: 2012-10-31 03:37:44
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  • Democrat Blasts White House for Benghazi ‘Dishonor’

    Updated: 2012-10-30 23:54:21
    Does an administration that puts its campaign before American lives deserve reelection? READ MORE...

  • News Feed: Big Storms and Fracking: What's at Stake? - Energy Collective

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:26:42
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  • News Feed: Poland has fracking tensions, too - Washington Post (blog)

    Updated: 2012-10-30 20:39:27
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  • News Feed: Fracking too dangerous to continue in the US - Fourth Estate Newspaper

    Updated: 2012-10-30 20:10:26
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  • Recent Gas Drilling News: MarcellusGasInfo Big storms and fracking: what’s at stake?

    Updated: 2012-10-30 19:23:55
    http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/amall/big_storms_and_fracking_whats.html Amy Mall’s Blog Big storms and fracking: what’s at stake? Posted October 29, 2012 in Health and the Environmentread more

  • Recent Gas Drilling News: MarcellusGasInfo “Are You Controlling Your Workers’ Exposures to Silica?”

    Updated: 2012-10-30 19:23:54
    http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=2582 Are You Controlling Your Workers’ Exposures to Silica? 10.30.12read more

  • Recent Gas Drilling News: MarcellusGasInfo “Shale gas benefits called into question”

    Updated: 2012-10-30 19:22:50
    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8b2ab142-2129-11e2-9720-00144feabdc0.html October 29, 2012 12:01 am Shale gas benefits called into question By Pilita Clark, Environment Correspondentread more

  • News Feed: Marcellus Shale in the US, 2012 - Gas Shale Market Analysis and Forecasts to ... - Sacramento Bee

    Updated: 2012-10-30 19:01:03
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  • Tuesday’s top of the scroll: Drilling for Delta tunnel studies blocked in court

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:59:15
    From the Stockton Record: “Test drilling for Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed twin tunnels must wait until next spring, despite state officials’ warning in court documents that any delay could drive up the cost of the now $14 billion project, or even render it infeasible. Judges in San Joaquin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties denied requests [...]

  • Western communities boiling over water quality

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:56:58
    From the Silicon Valley Mercury News: “Communities across the West are demanding limits on oil shale drilling along the Colorado River over concerns the thirst for oil could lead to polluted water supplies for millions of people. The worries have prompted proposals to limit acreage available for leasing. Officials in Nevada and Arizona sent letters [...]

  • California Economic Summit blog: Coalition gaining momentum to solve California’s water woes

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:53:51
    From the California Economic Summit: “For California’s usually divisive water politics, this may end up being an October to remember. Only a few months after Gov. Brown announced plans to proceed with a $14 billion tunnel system that would divert water through the Bay Delta—a proposal that immediately reignited the long-running water wars between the [...]

  • Dan Bacher: Delta leaders line up in opposition of “water tunnels” plan

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:51:46
    From Dan Bacher at the California Progress Report: “On October 24, Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA) hosted a press conference in Sacramento urging more federal support for levees in rural parts of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and calling for a statewide cost-benefit analysis of the controversial Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). Joined by a bipartisan [...]

  • Barry Nelson: The 20th anniversary of the CVPIA – the failure of salmon doubling

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:48:08
    From Barry Nelson at the NRDC Switchboard blog: “Twenty years ago today, President George H.W. Bush signed the most visionary water reform legislation ever passed by Congress, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. On this anniversary, it is clear that the passage of the CVPIA marked a turning point in California water history and in [...]

  • California Water Blog: Lessons from Hurricane Sandy for Bay Area business leaders

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:46:06
    From Jeff Mount at the California Water Blog: “As you read this today, Hurricane Sandy is colliding with cold air from Canada and creating an impressive storm in the Northeast. Strong onshore winds and an intense low-pressure system are causing storm surges as high as 13 feet in Lower Manhattan, threatening to swamp the subway [...]

  • Voices on Water blog: ACWA regions discuss what’s ahead in California water

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:43:49
    From ACWA’s Voices on Water blog: “ACWA Regions 9 and 10 came together, once again this year, to jointly host our annual fall program. With all of the “Delta Fix” issues and updates, a changing economy, and the hunt for a secure water supply, the landscape of California water is always changing. A workgroup appointed [...]

  • Top ten desal disasters

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:40:36
    From GWI Desalination.com: “Last week, I attended CalDesal’s Sacramento conference where I gave a paper on the Top Ten Desalination Disasters of all time. Although the title is somewhat incendiary, it raises a serious question: what is the best way of managing risk for big-ticket infrastructure projects? For the record, my Top Ten Disasters are: [...]

  • Former Marin Municipal Water District general manager named deputy director at the Department of Water Resources

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:28:39
    From the Marin Independent Journal: “Former Marin Municipal Water District general manager Paul Helliker has been appointed deputy director at the California Department of Water Resources by Gov. Jerry Brown. … “ Continue reading from the Marin Independent Journal by clicking here.

  • Planning commission considers delaying San Clemente Dam project

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:26:56
    From the Monterey County Herald: “Four property owners along Cachagua and Tassajara roads are suing in an attempt to force a new review of the construction access route for California American Water’s San Clemente Dam project. The move comes even as the county’s planning commission is set to consider delaying the $83 million project until [...]

  • An Unwanted…Presidency?

    Updated: 2012-10-29 16:43:27
    an amusing response to Obama ad from our friends at Students for Life of America READ MORE...

  • A DREADFUL DAY FOR SHELL SHAREHOLDERS, ESPECIALLY UK SHELL SHAREHOLDERS

    Updated: 2012-10-29 09:49:48
    FROM OUR OCTOBER 2004 SHELL NEWS ARCHIVE Friday 29 October, 2004 – A DREADFUL DAY FOR SHAREHOLDERS IN SHELL TRANSPORT AND TRADING COMPANY PLC The Times (UK): The Hague for head office: “ALTHOUGH it maintains otherwise, Shell is effectively going Dutch…”: “From May, the big decisions will be taken by a new board in The [...]

  • Did Obama Apologize for America?

    Updated: 2012-10-27 06:43:22
    He might not have used the word 'sorry' but his intent was clear READ MORE...

  • Can you believe I am passing along an Obama ad?

    Updated: 2012-10-27 05:24:44
    After watching this ad, I was surprised that it was created by the campaign of President Barack Obama READ MORE...

  • More Benghazi Updates: Not Good

    Updated: 2012-10-27 04:56:18
    It's looking like the White House really dropped the ball: the president skedaddled to a swanky fundraiser after seeing, via a live camera feed, Americans fight for their lives in their own consulate READ MORE...

  • Gen. Petraeus: Benghazi Wasn’t CIA’s Fault

    Updated: 2012-10-27 04:54:26
    Just maybe it is the President who should take responsibility for a massive failure of security and common sense on the anniversary of 9/11 READ MORE...

  • CNN’s Kurtz Laments Lack of Campaign Substance

    Updated: 2012-10-27 04:42:44
    Blames media, but misses the point READ MORE...

  • The Economist: Teachers Unions Destroy Social Mobility

    Updated: 2012-10-27 04:25:15
    By weakening education, they create more inequality than ‘Wall Street,’ says magazine READ MORE...

  • Fracking Fukushima Batman – Is that a Natural Gas Well Near a Nuclear Power Plant?

    Updated: 2012-10-26 04:02:33
    Chesapeake Energy given permit to frack one mile from Beaver Valley nuclear plant in Shippingport, PA

  • Five Wishes for the Clean Water Act on Its 40th Birthday

    Updated: 2012-10-18 22:56:50
    Our industry-controlled Congress is making it awfully hard to feel good about blowing out the candles

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