Water Supply
From: Mark Grossi, Fresno Bee
West San Joaquin Valley water
battles are leaping onto the big screen and into the sports world this week -
both under the heading of "The fight for water."
On Thursday, Olympic boxer Jose
Ramirez, who is from the west-side community of Avenal, will talk about his
first professional fight on Nov. 9 at West Hills College in Lemoore.
On Saturday, an award-winning
documentary, "The fight for water: a farm worker struggle," will
screen at 6 p.m. at the Tower Theatre in Fresno.
From: Tim Quinn, ACWA
Last month, the ACWA Board of
Directors voted unanimously and enthusiastically to approve a Statewide Water
Action Plan (SWAP) for California. The vote capped an intensive five-month
effort convened by ACWA with the goal of crafting a specific plan that could be
broadly supported by water interests and serve as a sustainable path forward
for California.
Long-term water supply
reliability and improved ecosystem health are the hallmarks of the plan.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Editorial Staff, Desert
Sun
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
is nearly 500 miles away from the Coachella Valley. And there is no direct
connection between the valley and the State Water Project. But state and local
water officials tell us the Bay Delta Conservation Plan is critical to the
future of our valley and the campaign to replenish our aquifer.
The Coachella Valley Water
District and the Desert Water Agency held a workshop this week to discuss the
plan, which has been in development for seven years. Some participants made a
pitch to The Desert Sun editorial board. Although it's an expensive proposition
- the preliminary estimate is $24.54 billion - and would take at least a decade
to complete, they make a convincing case.
Delta
From: Amy Quinton, Valley
Public Radio
(This article was previously
broadcast on Capital Public Radio.)
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
is home to a half million people. In the fourth part of our series, we examine
the culture of the Delta and talk to residents about their concerns over its
future.
Groundwater
From: Bryan Barnhart,
California Water Law Journal
In Environmental Law Foundation,
et al. v. State Water Resources Control Board, et al., Case No.
34-2010-80000583, three plaintiff organizations (collectively, ELF) claim that
California's Public Trust Doctrine requires the State Water Resources Control Board
(Board) and Siskiyou County (County) to regulate groundwater that is
hydraulically connected to the navigable Scott River (Scott Groundwater).
Although ELF's legal theory is sound, ELF chose the wrong case to test it. The
Scott Groundwater already is subject to public-trust protections that are set
forth in an existing Siskiyou County Superior Court Decree. Before it asks
another Court to issue a new order based on a novel public-trust theory, ELF
should seek better enforcement of the existing Decree.
California Water
Plan
From: Report, DWR
California Water Plan Update 2013
Volume 3, Resource Managment Strategies, is being released today for review and
comment. Volume 3 includes 30 water managment options to acheive multiple
benefits. The public comment period is 45 days. (10/16/2013)
Quantification
Settlement Agreement
From: Matt Williams, ACWA
It's been a decade since four
Southern California water agencies voluntarily agreed in October 2003 to a set
of long-term conservation and water transfer agreements to resolve longstanding
disputes and help the state cope with users' growing demand for water from the
Colorado River.
Salton Sea
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
The office of Assemblyman V.
Manuel Pérez has requested a written legal opinion from the California Office
of Legislative Counsel on the extent of the state's liability for Salton Sea
restoration under the terms of the Quantification Settlement Agreement.
Technology
From: Esther Avila,
Porterville Recorder
Students from the Emerging
Agriculture Technology Academy Pathway program at Strathmore High School are
learning about watering crops in a unique, state of the art way.
Through a partnership with
Irrigation Matters Inc., the students are learning how to leverage technology
to conserve irrigation water by using a remote field-monitoring unit that was
installed in August in a corn block on the school campus. On Wednesday morning,
Pat Biddy, an irrigation technology specialist, talked to the program's sophomores
about reading, analyzing, and making decisions based on the data retrieved from
the remote field monitoring unit.
Farming
From: Chuck Harvey, Fresno
Business Journal
Common to the Midwest and Texas -
but fairly new to the Central Valley - overhead center pivot irrigation systems
are being tried here on a variety of crops including cotton, wheat and alfalfa hay.
Levees
From: Sunita Sohrabji, New
American Media
On Jan 2, 1997, a break in a
levee on the rain-soaked Feather River -which lies north of Sacramento, Calif.
- unleashed a devastating flood, leaving vital farmlands under 30-feet of
water. The deluge caused $25 million in damages to the 100,000 Sikh farmers in
the region.
Former Yuba City Mayor Kash Gill,
who farms 200 acres of peaches and almonds, told India-West the 1997 floods
made his town a ghost town for several days.
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