This time of year, May Vu’s farm in Sanger should be carpeted
with blooming flowers and a bounty of vegetables. But a failing
irrigation pump and a nearly empty well have dried up Vu’s farm
and with it, her source of income.
San Joaquin County
supervisors agreed Tuesday to oppose Gov. Jerry Brown’s twin
tunnels project – for the second time – and to send nearly 100
pages of highly critical comments to state and federal
officials.
Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed twin tunnels “will effectively
destroy the Delta as it exists today,” and will forever alter San
Joaquin County’s economy, county officials warn in a new report.
Agencies from San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties to NASA and
the U.S. Department of Agriculture formed an invasive-weed task
force seeking holistic, more comprehensive solutions to free the
Delta from its oppressors.
Modesto is asking everyone to conserve water as the state bakes
under a third straight year of drought. And in case folks
have not gotten the message, the city is helping them.
Stanislaus County farmers have been granted permission to drill
hundreds of new agricultural wells this year, while an increasing
number of domestic water wells go dry, a review of permit records
shows.
For the fifth time since it first declared a local state of
emergency for the drought, the San Joaquin County Board of
Supervisors continued the state of drought emergency at its
regular meeting on Tuesday.
For the fifth time since it first declared a local state of
emergency for the drought, the San Joaquin County Board of
Supervisors continued the state of drought emergency at its
regular meeting on Tuesday.
On Tuesday the National Weather Service will turn the page on a
hugely disappointing 2013-14 “wet” season that saw Stockton soak
up a paltry 7.51 inches of rain, about 55 percent of normal.
… Every acre of California is now mired in drought.
On Tuesday the National Weather Service will turn the page on a
hugely disappointing 2013-14 “wet” season that saw Stockton soak
up a paltry 7.51 inches of rain, about 55 percent of normal.
… Every acre of California is now mired in drought.
Mark Grossi, environmental reporter for The Fresno Bee, was
honored Thursday by the Fresno County Farm Bureau for excellence
in agriculture reporting by print media.
“Searing heat across the central San Joaquin Valley region Monday
broke a century-old record in Fresno and made tough work for fire
crews battling a pair of foothill wildfires.”
“State officials are beginning to apply herbicide to more than
2,000 acres of Delta waterways in an effort to control a
tentacle-like invasive weed that lies just below the surface.”
“The Sierra Nevada is rising. Drought-stricken farmers in
the Central Valley are pumping more and more water from the
valley’s huge aquifer beneath them, and the drainage is
triggering unexpected earthquakes along the San Andreas Fault,
scientists have discovered.”
“It is barely June, but the Fresno area will get some mid-summer
heat this weekend. Jim Bagnall of the National Weather
Service in Hanford delivered the news Wednesday.”
From the California Department of Fish and Wildlife:
“Over 4,000 marijuana plants were seized in a multi-agency drug
raid on a ranch next to the City of Modesto Water Treatment
Plant.
“Drug agents from the Stanislaus Drug Enforcement Agency (SDEA)
had discovered several outdoor marijuana grow sites on an
uninhabited area of the ranch, which is surrounded by water.”
