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It takes a while to get to the point, but an 80,000-page environmental opus released Thursday makes the case that Gov. Jerry Brown’s $15.7 billion twin tunnels project is the best way to fix California’s water woes.
Federal inspections of cattle and hog feedlots, turkey houses, and other animal feeding operations dropped for a fourth consecutive year, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data. The number of fines and orders to change management practices for those same facilities fell for a fifth consecutive year.
New video from Lagunitas Creek shows healthy coho salmon navigating the chilly waters, a positive sign for the endangered species that has benefitted from recent rains.
There’s something unusual in the mix in Southern California this weekend, along with the usual rain-caused traffic gridlock and airport delays, according to one climatologist — a sense of optimism.
Rain pummeled the Bay Area early Friday ahead of a cold snap that will likely bring freezing temperatures to parts of the region this Christmas weekend, forecasters said.
Rain was falling in Sacramento and snow was coming down hard in the Sierra Nevada on Friday as a fairly cold winter storm swept into Northern California.
Saying that his Delta tunnels proposal has been subject to “more environmental review than any other project in the history of the world,” Gov. Jerry Brown and his administration on Thursday released 97,000 pages of final reports.
California Governor Jerry Brown’s administration has released a 97,000 page environmental document on a plan to re-engineer the state’s water delivery system.
After years of planning, officials have finalized all 97,000 pages of environmental documents to support Gov. Jerry Brown’s controversial plan to build two massive tunnels through the heart of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to build two giant tunnels to send Northern California water southward moved a step closer Thursday to final state and federal decisions, with the state’s release of a 90,000-page environmental review supporting the $15.7 billion project.
The state is increasing water allocations to many California areas, including Livermore and Santa Clara valleys, because of abundant early rain and snow this season.
The Moorpark City Council on Wednesday unanimously supported a protest of a new water-rate structure proposed in the city. The city will be sending a protest letter to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors stating that municipal customer rates will be unfairly raised to support a discount to agricultural customers.
Water rates would go up 6 percent for 208,000 Central Contra Costa residents under a proposal made in part to offset a drop in water use during the drought.
The Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency named Senior Water Resources Hydrologist Brian Lockwood as interim general manager effective Jan. 1. Lockwood, who started with the agency in 2005, succeeds retiring General Manager Mary Bannister.
A Santa Rosa linen and uniform supply company has agreed to pay $135,000 to settle claims that it allowed laundry wash water to run off into a creek, killing dozens of fish.
For ten years, the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Act has protected, enhanced and benefited 273,000 acres of federal public land and 21 miles of wild and scenic rivers.
