Water Supply
From: Patrick Cavanaugh,
California Ag Today
While severely reduced water
allocations on the Westside of the San Joaquin Valley are hurting many growers
in federal water districts such as Westlands, San Luis and Panoche, if no water
at all is delivered next year, growers could be completely forced out of
business. And the Eastside of the Valley has huge problems as well.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Alex Breitler, Stockton
Record
The shutdown of the federal
government could delay the governor's twin tunnels plan for the Delta, a state
official said Tuesday.
The plan, said to be close to
25,000 pages in length, is supposed to be released for public comment Nov. 15.
But the plan must first be
reviewed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries
Service, both of which were closed Tuesday.
Delta
From: Kathryn A. Klar,
Sacramento Bee
Re "Fix the Delta
levees" (Letters, Sept. 26): The letter writer states that the 1989 Loma
Prieta earthquake was on the Hayward Fault. It was not. It was on a section of
the San Andreas Fault down near Santa Cruz, far from the Delta.
Salton Sea
From: Editorial Staff,
Imperial Valley Press
It's been about two years in the
making, but now stakeholders in the Imperial Valley will have more local
control and a bigger say in what becomes of efforts to save the Salton Sea.
On Saturday, Gov. Jerry Brown
signed Assembly Bill 71 into law, a piece of legislation authored by local
representative Assemblyman V. Manuel Pérez, D-Coachella, which directs state
officials to coordinate with the Salton Sea Authority on finding fixes for the
sea.
Transfers
From: Staff, Chico
Enterprise-Record
A transfer of 5,000 acre-feet of
groundwater from Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District to San Luis Mendota Water
Authority took place this summer.
Today, the Butte County Water
Commission will hear the evaluation of the groundwater monitoring that took
place.
Courts
From: Staff, Capital Press
The state's largest ranchers'
organization is praising a judge's preliminary ruling that fees charged to
California water rights holders are invalid.
Dams
From: Lee Juillerat, Herald
and News
Upset about not being included on
the Klamath Basin Task Force, Siskiyou County supervisors and Klamath County
commissioners Monday decided to create their own task force to study and make
recommendations on Klamath Basin-wide water issues.
From: Associated Press, Redding Record Searchlight
From: Associated Press, San Diego Union-Tribune
From: Associated Press, KFMB-8 TV
Leaders in two Klamath Basin
counties who oppose taking down dams as part of a regional settlement of water
issues say they're planning an alternative to talks aimed at salvaging the
agreements.
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