San Joaquin River
From: Mark Grossi, Fresno
Beehive
Starting Tuesday, you'll see San
Joaquin River water pouring faster out of Friant Dam. It's part of the
experimental flows in the river restoration project.
The releases first will ramp up
to 1,050 cubic feet per second - about 2,000 acre-feet of water in one
day. Later this week, it will be dropped to 700 cfs through Nov. 6. Then
it will drop to 350 until the end of February.
Water Supply
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
The Imperial Irrigation District
Board of Directors approved on Monday an apportionment plan that allocates
water to Imperial Valley farmland in a way that blends a field's historical
water consumption with an equal "straight-line" allocation.
Reservoirs
From: Ian James, Desert
Sun
While water agencies in the
California desert are considering ways to keep groundwater levels from falling
further, many reservoirs are dwindling across the state.
Biological Opinions
From: Press Release, USBR
The Bureau of Reclamation, in
coordination with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's
National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and
California Department of Water Resources has scheduled an annual science review
and workshop on the long-term operations biological opinions of the Central
Valley Project and State Water Project. The 2013 annual science review will be
the fourth annual review.
Groundwater
From: Dennis Pollock, Western
Farm Press
A flurry of meetings is under way
as leaders of the Kings River Water Quality Coalition reach out to growers on
nearly 1 million irrigated acres of the nation's most productive farmland.
The meetings were spawned by new
regulations from the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board that
call for increased scrutiny on groundwater and contaminants that include
nitrates.
"Before, the focus was on
surface water," said David Orth, who heads the coalition. "Now it's
expanding into groundwater."
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Press Release, BDCP
As a joint effort of state and
federal agencies preparing the BDCP, the recent shutdown of the federal
government and associated staff furloughs have delayed the development, review,
and ultimately the release of the Public Draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan
(BDCP) and Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS).
The Public Draft BDCP and EIR/EIS are now scheduled for release on December 13,
2013 for 120 days of formal review.
Districts
From: Ron Peterson, Modesto
Bee
As the president of Stanislaus
County Farm Bureau, I am proud to say that our Farm Bureau board unanimously
voted to endorse Jake Wenger for MID Division 4, Ron Macedo for TID District 5
and Joe Alamo for TID District 3 board positions.
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