WATER SUPPLY
NYT Green Blog: Divvying up the water down under
Blog
By Felicity Barringer
From the New York Times Green Blog - Monday, March 21, 2011
Andrew Gregson, an official with the New South Wales Irrigators Council, is the kind of Australian completely at home in the agricultural sea that is California's San Joaquin Valley. He knows all about the business and the social fabric of farming and about irrigated agriculture. He believes that [...]
DELTA
On the Public Record blog: Delta Plan, second draft: instantaneous impression
Blog
From Aquafornia/On the Public Record - Sunday, March 20, 2011
From the On the Public Record blog: "BOOOOO!! Booo! BOOO! Boooo! BOOOO!!! A bureaucrat got hold of this plan! BOOOO! If I wanted to read bureaucratic weaseling, I could read my own professional work. BOOOOO! Fire someone! (Not me.) What the hell?! Booooo! The first plan was so swashbuckling. It was awesome. It asserted things [...]
Delta Stewardship Council to meet this Thursday and Friday
Meeting Notice
The Delta Stewardship Council will be meeting on Thursday, March 24th, and Friday, March 25th, in Sacramento. You can review the agenda and meeting materials by clicking here.
Tom Philp: Sizing Delta conveyance - Part two
Blog
By Tom Philp
From CityBrights/SF Chronicle
From Tom Philp at the City Brights - Sunday, March 20, 2011
This [link available on click-through] must be one insightful PowerPoint on future Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta water supply options. Both "sides" think that it proves their point. One of the big ongoing debates is (1) whether to build a new conveyance system to separate the movement of water [...]
GROUNDWATER
Story
Stockton Record - Saturday, March 19, 2011
From the Stockton Record: "The end of California's three-year drought brought a welcome boost to San Joaquin County's underground water supply. With one exception. The North San Joaquin Water Conservation District - which has received national attention for its struggle to draw more water from the Mokelumne River, and for infighting over a proposed groundwater [...]
FISHERIES
Returning salmon to San Joaquin River will cost millions
Story
By Mark Grossi
From Modesto Bee - Saturday, March 19, 2011
Reviving chinook salmon on the San Joaquin River will cost more than $20 million, which may sound like a lot of money for 40,000 fish. But this rare project will take years of work, scientists say
OTHER
With water levels rising, levee patrols begin
TV News
From KXTV Channel 10 - Saturday, March 19, 2011
SACRAMENTO - Water levels are up, so patrols are out now keeping watch on the levees, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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