Salton Sea
From: Imperial
Valley Press Staff, Imperial Valley Press Online
It was a good week
for the Salton Sea, as Gov. Jerry Brown signed a budget that included more than
$30 million meant for restoration efforts.
Meanwhile,
restoration at the sea was a hot topic among lawmakers in the state during a
state Senate hearing of the Select Committee on California Energy Independence,
chaired by state Sen. Ben Hueso, the Imperial Valley's representative.
From: Elizabeth
Varin, Imperial Valley Press Online
Salton Sea
discussion took center stage at a state hearing held in Sacramento on Thursday.
State and local
leaders talked over the potential growth of renewable energy at the Salton Sea
and how that would impact restoration efforts at an information hearing of the
Senate Select Committee on California's Energy Independence.
Levees
From: Alex
Breitler, Stockton Record
Federal
flood-control officials are once more calling some local levees
"unacceptable" - this time following inspections conducted two years
ago in the rural Delta.
Perhaps most
notably, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said last week that it found flaws in
the levees guarding Stewart Tract, site of the future River Islands development
near Lathrop.
River Islands
officials have already built their own private levees to protect homes expected
to be built starting late this year. For that reason, the developers say the
"unacceptable" rating on the separate, public levee will not affect
the project.
Water Supply
From: Heather
Hacking, Chico ER
Butte County needs
to work more closely with the state to protect the county's water rights, the
county needs to find a way to use water rights already held through Lake
Oroville, and groundwater needs to be studied.
From: John
Holland, Modesto Bee
Happy new year,
water users. Let's raise a glass and hope it won't be like the one that just
ended.
Sunday was the last
day of the precipitation year in California, which runs from July through June.
Blogs
From: Nancy
Vogel, BDCP Blog
Californians must
get smarter about how we use water. In decades to come, millions more
people will live here. As those decades unfold, climate change -- its
effects already being felt -- will raise temperatures, shift precipitation
patterns, and shrink the Sierra Nevada snowpack that melts into one-third of
the California water supply.
Storage
From: Staff
Report, Chico ER
The 90-day public
review period has begun for the draft environmental impact statement for the
Shasta Lake Water Resources Investigation.
The proposed
project would raise Shasta Dam to increase water storage.
View the report
here: http://goo.gl/SqA1G
Groundwater
From: Vance
Kennedy, Modesto Bee
A major problem is
developing in the foothills east of the flood-irrigated soils in the valley.
Because almonds are
as profitable as they are, and flood- irrigated farmland is so costly, there is
an ongoing effort to plant almonds in the foothills east of the flood-irrigated
farmland. That has the potential to cause major problems for ranchers, who have
long used such land for grazing.
Rivers
From: Abby
Taylor-Silva, Salinas Californian
We at the
Grower-Shipper Association of Central California, as well as many stakeholders
throughout Monterey County and beyond made comments in May to the Monterey
County Water Resources Agency regarding its Salinas River Stream Maintenance
Program Draft Environmental Impact Report.
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