Groundwater
From: Garth Stapley, Modesto
Bee
Don't wait for groundwater to go
so low that a judge or state officials feel compelled to step in and take over.
That message, in so many words,
came through loud and clear from expert after expert at Monday's packed forum
addressing the Central Valley's emerging crsis.
From: J.N. Sbranti, Modesto
Bee
Concern about sinking groundwater
levels is getting lots of attention this week in the Northern San Joaquin
Valley.
Oakdale Irrigation District staff
members will make a presentation today about the issue, and researchers from
the U.S. Geological Survey will release a new report Thursday about problems
caused by overdrafting.
From: Jerry Praugh, Cal Coast
News
PRAAGS supported, and still
supports, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors' decision to pass the
urgency ordinance (UO) covering the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin, enacted on
August 27. But the ordinance is a stopgap. It's a timeout. It is not a
permanent solution to the problem of declining basin levels. In fact, it offers
no solution at all.
It's time now to move forward so
the county can eventually lift the ordinance and so it doesn't remain in place
for years to come, choking the engine that drives our economy, driving property
values into the ground and harming the Central Coast life we've all come to
know and love.
Delta
From: Wouter Jan Klerk and
Ties Rijcken, California WaterBlog
The California Delta is one of
the world's most complex water systems. As a group of five Dutch students from
Delft University of Technology, we were eager to visit the diked islands, or
"polders," as we call them in the Netherlands. We wanted to learn how
California balances the region's often-competing needs of flood protection,
water supply and ecological health.
But we also wanted to contribute
something useful to local decision-makers and residents while we were there in
the fall of 2012. We had in mind a fun and educational board game that would
simulate the interplay between Delta flood risks and development interests.
Bay Delta
Conservation Plan
From: Alex Breitler,
eSanJoaquin
San Joaquin County supervisors
want to know what the state will do should the governor's twin tunnels plan not
pan out.
The supes posed the question in a
recent meeting with California Resources Secretary John Laird.
From: Joaquin Palomino, East
Bay Express
State officials recently admitted
that they had incorrectly analyzed an alternative proposal to Jerry Brown's
giant water tunnels plan, and now acknowledge that it would be $6 billion
cheaper than the governor's proposal. The California Natural Resources Agency
had previously said that the competing water plan-known as the Portfolio
Alternative- would only save the state $3 billion, and as a result, was not
viable.
Salton Sea
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
While on a routine visit to the
Salton Sea, Imperial Irrigation District employees noticed a green substance
growing near the mud volcanoes at the southeastern shoreline of the Salton Sea.
Drought
From: Heather Hacking, Chico
Enterprise-Record
It doesn't take much more than a
drive through the valley to note it's been a very, very dry season. As the flat
land begins to roll into small hills, one wonders what those slow, grazing cows
are finding to eat.
Districts
From: Antoine Abou-Diwan,
Imperial Valley Press
The Imperial Irrigation District
Board of Directors is scheduled to take action on five items when it meets in
open session Tuesday.
The board will consider approving
service agreements to Davids Engineering to conduct a feasibility study for the
lining of the East Highline Canal and to reformulate the IID's system-wide
water conservation plan.
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