Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Maven, Maven's Notebook
Earlier this week on West Marin
Community Radio's show, Post Carbon Radio, Deputy Director of Natural Resources
Agency Jerry Meral and the Planning and Conservation League's Jonas Minton had
a congenial debate on the merits of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.
From: Alex Breitler,
esanjoaquin
Raising the specter of Owens
Valley dust storms, San Joaquin County Supervisor Bob Elliott recently asked
Valley air quality officials to consider the impacts of the governor's twin
tunnels plan.
Delta
From: Maven, Maven's Notebook
The Delta Stewardship Council's
role regarding the BDCP, as well as the multiple lawsuits filed over the Delta
Plan were some of the topics discussed as Phil Isenberg, Chair of the Delta
Stewardship Council, updated the California Water Commission on the status of
the Delta Plan at their July 17 meeting.
Water Supply
From: Kevin Valine, Modesto
Bee
A growth management panel has
approved a major expansion of almond farming in Stanislaus County's eastern
hills and grasslands, where cattle once grazed.
The Stanislaus Local Agency
Formation Commission voted 5-0 on Wednesday evening to approve the Oakdale
Irrigation District's request to annex 7,296 acres of land east of Oakdale and
owned by Trinitas Partners LLC of Menlo Park.
From: Press Release, USBR
The Bureau of Reclamation has
recently finalized four water-related Reclamation Manual Policies and
Directives and Standards. These new policies accomplish the following goals:
(1) better aligns the definitions of irrigation water use and municipal and
industrial water use with relevant law; (2) provides improved parameters for
contract price negotiations associated with future water transfers; and (3)
fills policy gaps, and clarifies existing policy as it relates to the cost of
Reclamation-supplied water. The general purpose of these revised policies is to
direct Reclamation staff in duties relating to the development, negotiation,
execution and administration of water-related contracts.
Groundwater
From: Staff, Modesto Bee
How interesting.
Four-plus years ago, when
Stanislaus County leaders asked their Agricultural Advisory Committee to draft
a proposed ordinance to restrict export (sales) of groundwater outside the
county, there was fierce opposition from some irrigation district leaders, who
basically said, You're not in the water business; we are. Go away.
Today, one Modesto Irrigation
District director, Larry Byrd, wants the county to do something immediately
about the overdraft of groundwater on the east side of the county, where he and
other property owners have had their wells affected by new and deeper wells
drilled by others.
Transfers
From: Press Release, USBR
The Bureau of Reclamation today
released final environmental documents for the approval of the temporary
transfer of up to 5,000 acre-feet of Central Valley Project water from the
Clear Creek Community Service District to the Orland-Artois Water District,
which is served by the Tehama-Colusa Canal, from July through October 2013.
Klamath
From: Staff,
Register-Guard
To almost no one's great
surprise, the 2010 agreement to restore the Klamath Basin did not end the
region's epic battle over water rights. Yet it remains the best hope of
removing dams, allocating water, restoring streams and helping the fish,
farmers, tribes and communities that rely on the shallow, sick Klamath River
that for decades has been the source of fierce controversy.
Levees
From: Pamela Martineau, ACWA
The Department of Water Resources
(DWR) announced today that it has approved nearly $30 million in funding for 14
reclamation district projects in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that will
strengthen nearly 90 miles of levees.
From: Press Release, Central
Valley Business Times
Nearly 90 miles of levees in the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are to be rebuilt to one degree or another to
provide protection against flooding, the state Department of Water Resources
says.
Fisheries
From: Barbara Arrigoni, Chico
Enterprise-Record
An abundance of spring-run salmon
has been seen this year in the Feather River in Oroville, and officials said
they expect the fall run to be plentiful, too.
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