Water Supply
From: Damian Trujillo, NBC-TV
Bay Area
Water levels at the San Luis Reservoir
in the Central Valley is at a near-record low.
The low 17-percent water level is
due to a dry couple of years coupled with regulatory restrictions preventing
operators from importing more water from the Delta to save wildlife, officials
said.
Groundwater
From: Abby Taylor-Silva,
Salinas Californian
In January 2013, a group of
agricultural interests began developing a cooperative groundwater monitoring
plan in response to Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program (ILRP) requirements for
groundwater monitoring (also known as the "Ag Waiver"). The
agricultural groups included Grower-Shipper Association of Central California,
Western Growers and the farm bureaus of Monterey, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and
San Benito counties. The plan was adopted by the Regional Water Board on July
11 and the Central Coast Groundwater Cooperative was founded in July.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Lois Kazakoff, SF
Chronicle
The tiny delta smelt has wielded
enormous political clout in California's water wars because its health as a
species is the legal measure of the environmental health of the bay-delta, the
lynchpin of the state's water system. As of last week however, the sandhill
crane has usurped the limelight.
Colorado River
From: Janet Zimmerman,
Riverside Press-Enterprise
It's bad news on the Colorado
River.
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
announced Friday, Aug. 16, that it would reduce releases from Lake Powell to
Lake Mead by about 750,000 acre-feet in the 2014 water year, which begins Oct.
1. It is the smallest release since Lake Powell was filled in the 1960s.
From: Sally Deneen, National
Geographic
A new report has brought a sense
of urgency to the slow-moving disaster represented by the shrinking Colorado
River.
For days and weeks, water
officials fretted that the federal Bureau of Reclamation's anticipated 24-month
study would deliver bad news, and it did. The agency-a division of the
Department of Interior that provides water and power in the West-announced
today it would cut water released from Lake Powell's Glen Canyon Dam by 750,000
acre-feet next year. That's about enough water to serve 1.5 million homes.
From: Terrell Johnson, The
Weather Channel
More than a dozen years of
drought have begun to extract a heavy toll from water supplies in the West,
where a report released last week forecast dramatic cuts next year in releases
between the two main reservoirs on the Colorado River, the primary source of
water for tens of millions of people across seven western states.
Courts
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
A motion to stop the Imperial
Irrigation District from implementing its recently-approved water apportionment
plan has been filed in Imperial County Superior Court.
Meetings
From: Butte County Water
August 21, 2013
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Masonic Family Center
1110 W. East Avenue
Chico, CA 95973
Dr. Jerry Meral, Deputy
Secretary, California Resources Agency: The Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP)
Jonas Minton, Water Policy
Advisor, Planning and Conservation League: Natural
Resources Defense Council
Portfolio-Based Conceptual Alternative
Congressman John Garamendi,
California's 3rd District: The Garamendi Plan
Ara Azhderian, Water Policy
Administrator, San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority
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