Trinity River
From: Damon Arthur, Redding
Record-Searchlight
For the second time in a week, a
federal judge has ruled in favor of San Joaquin Valley farmers who have asked
the court to block higher water flows in the Trinity River.
From: Staff, Eureka Times-Standard
From: Staff, Chico Enterprise-Record
A U.S. District Court judge in
Fresno has extended a temporary restraining order that blocks water releases
meant to prevent a fish kill on the lower Klamath River until Aug. 26.
Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley
filed a lawsuit against the federal government last week, arguing the
Department of the Interior and Bureau of Reclamation lacked the authority to
authorize the flows meant to prevent a repeat of the 2002 fish kill that left
tens of thousands of salmon dead before they could spawn.
From: Associated Press, Fresno Bee
From: Associated Press, RGJ
A U.S. District judge in
California has temporarily halted the planned releases of water from a Northern
California reservoir to prevent a salmon kill in the lower Klamath River.
The judge ordered the releases
from the Trinity Reservoir temporarily stopped until August 21.
Water Supply
From: Thaddeus Miller, Merced
Sun-Star
A water rights documentary made
on Merced County's West Side is set to play at UC Merced next week.
Filmmaker Juan Carlos Oseguera
said "The Fight for Water," which plays Wednesday at UC Merced, has
received more interest than he anticipated.
From: Debra Moore, Plumas
County News
California has faced droughts
before, but this time may be different.
"The (state) water
board is changing direction," said Leah Wills, Plumas County's water
consultant. "It's more broad."
From: Jim Johnson, Monterey
Herald
An agreement about a decades-old
Salinas River use permit has been finalized.
The settlement between the
Monterey County Water Resources Agency and the State Water Resources Control
Board was approved last week by the board's deputy director.
Under the agreement, the county
water agency will reduce the permit's water allocation by about 20 percent, to
about 135,000 acre-feet of water per year. In exchange, the state water board's
prosecution team promises not to attempt to revoke the permit.
From: Don Curlee, Hanford
Sentinel
If it's a water war in the Salinas
Valley, farmers are fighting it from a totally defensive position, protecting
an aquifer 180 feet deep that they will never see.
Water Bond
From: Sen. Anthony Canella,
Modesto Bee
As we head into the end of
session, the retooling of the water bond package from 2009 will be one of the
largest issues facing the Legislature.
While water may not be a
"sexy" topic for many parts of the state, I know it is first and
foremost in the minds of many in our region. We know California has already
taken too long to get started on rebuilding our water infrastructure and we
must address it immediately. Our water system was built for a much smaller
California in a much simpler time and has not kept up with growth or our
environmental regulatory scheme.
From: Phil Willion, LA Times
Assembly leaders on Thursday
annnounced a retooled water bond proposal to address the state's long-term
water supply needs as well as protecting critical habitat, including the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
From: Ian James, Desert Sun
State lawmakers on Thursday
launched a revamped proposal for a $5 billion water bond that would go before
voters next year, trimming down an earlier $11 billion proposal that was
scrapped due to a lack of public support.
Rivers
From: Eric Vodden, Marysville
Appeal-Democrat
A federal agency will have to
start from scratch on a new biological opinion on Yuba River fish restoration
following a court ruling that effectively scrapped the report.
Curt Aikens, Yuba County Water
Agency general manager, said tossing out the National Marine Fisheries
Service's opinion was the most satisfying part of the court victory.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Associated Press, Stockton Record
From: Associated Press, Marysville Appeal-Democrat
From: Associated Press, ABC-TV 10
From: Associated Press, KNVN-TV 24
California water officials are
proposing changes to a multi-billion-dollar plan for two water diversion
tunnels for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
From: Bettina Boxall, LA Times
The state is moving the route of
a proposed tunnel system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta away from north
delta communities to a land preserve that is an important winter home for the
greater sandhill crane and other migratory birds in the Pacific Flyway.
From: Amy Quinton, Capital
Public Radio
California Natural Resources
Secretary John Laird says the changes prove water managers have listened to
Delta-area landowners.
Under the changes, the footprint
of the project would shrink by 50-percent and shift construction away from
private lands to public.
From: Ben van der Meer,
Sacramento Business Journal
A revised Bay Delta Conservation
Plan moves a forebay for the controversial peripheral tunnels for water further
east and shrinks the plan's overall footprint by half, as well as shifts 400
acres of construction impacts from private to public lands.
From: Alex Breitler, Stockton
Record
The state revamped its twin
tunnels plan Thursday, making changes that will spare Delta residents some of
the effects of construction but will also route the tunnels directly beneath
sensitive sandhill crane wintering grounds.
From: Matt Weiser, Sacramento
Bee
State officials will hold public
office hours at Sacramento-area libraries over the next few weeks to answer questions
about their proposed water diversion tunnel project in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta.
Colorado
River
From: Associated Press, Fresno Bee
From: Associated Press, Redding Record Searchlight
After back-to-back driest years
in a century on the Colorado River, federal water managers are giving Arizona
and Nevada a 50-50 chance of having their water deliveries cut in 2016, unless
the Rocky Mountains get more winter snow than in recent years.
Technology
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
Between a record-low water level
at Lake Mead and Imperial Irrigation District's water overrun payback
obligations, Imperial Valley farmers are under great pressure to be more
water-efficient.
And while the IID is offering
farmers incentives to adopt water-efficient irrigation practices like
pressurized sprinkler systems, some in the Valley are trying to improve the
centuries-old practice of flood irrigation.
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