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Overview April 24, 2014

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Aquafornia news October 15, 2018 Ventura County Star

Commentary: Water’s journey to Ventura County requires pumps, energy

Saving water saves energy. Simply tracing the origin and following the journey of Ventura County’s water shows the tremendous amount of pumping required to supply local water. Ventura County’s imported water originates in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, is pumped through a series of pipes and flows through canals for hundreds of miles, then is stored in Castaic Lake.

Aquafornia news October 15, 2018 The Orange County Register

Sewage spill contaminates Sunset Aquatic Marina, Portofino Cove in Huntington Beach

Orange County health officials barred ocean water-contact sports in Sunset Aquatic Marina and Portofino Cove in Huntington Beach due to a 1,000-gallon sewage spill on Sunday, Oct. 14. The contaminants originated from a sewer line blockage in Anaheim, according to a news release from the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Environmental Health division.

Aquafornia news October 11, 2018 Los Angeles Times

As states near deal on Colorado River shortage, California looks at water cuts of as much as 8%

After years of stop-and-go talks, California and two other states that take water from the lower Colorado River are nearing an agreement on how to share delivery cuts if a formal shortage is declared on the drought-plagued waterway. Under the proposed pact, California — the river’s largest user — would reduce diversions earlier in a shortage than it would if the lower-basin states strictly adhered to a water-rights pecking order.

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Las Vegas Review-Journal: Colorado River states OK tentative plan to slow reservoirs’ decline

The Colorado Sun: Plan to slow creeping Colorado River crisis could drain more water from Blue Mesa, Flaming Gorge reservoirs

Aquafornia news October 10, 2018 Los Angeles Times

Rock climbers campaign to access local cliff closed to protect endangered frogs

Williamson Rock is a sheer granite wall that rises from chaparral in the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Crisscrossed with 300 routes, it has been a proving ground for Southern California rock climbers since the 1960s. But in a move that outraged many in the climbing community, the area was shut down in 2005 to protect an isolated colony of federally endangered Southern California mountain yellow-legged frogs from being trampled.

Aquafornia news October 8, 2018 San Gabriel Valley Tribune

NRDC sues Pasadena, Murrieta over failing to restrict water usage for new developments

Pasadena violated state water laws for three years by allowing new homes and commercial buildings to waste water, while failing to file conservation reports with the state resources agency. They also ignored a 25-year-old state law strengthened under the governor’s drought emergency of 2015 that ordered stringent reductions in landscape watering, according to a settlement agreement signed last month.

Aquafornia news October 8, 2018 California Department of Water Resources

News Release: Pyramid Lake algal bloom caution advisory removed

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today [Oct. 5] removed a caution advisory that had been in effect since August 17 at Pyramid Lake in Los Angeles County. Water contact is allowed, but all recreational users should always avoid contact with blue-green algae. DWR lifted the caution advisory after detecting a reduced amount of microcystins for a second consecutive week at Pyramid Lake.

Aquafornia news October 4, 2018 Los Angeles Times

With rainy season looming, residents of Lake Elsinore and other burn areas wait for the next disaster: mudslides

[Julie] Hamilton’s house near Leach Canyon in Lake Elsinore was spared from the flames. But now, like many others all over California who have endured the worst wildfire season in modern state history, she’s waiting for the next potential disaster: debris flows and mudslides.

Aquafornia news October 3, 2018 San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Endangered baby yellow-legged frogs leave LA Zoo incubator for Angeles National Forest

Marlowe Robertson-Billet carefully scooped three-inch tadpoles from a fish tank into plastic bags, then quickly piped in pure oxygen from a steel tank. Along with a team of zookeepers and biologists working in a nondescript laboratory at the Los Angeles Zoo on Tuesday, Oct. 2, Robertson-Billet prepared about 150 baby southern mountain yellow-legged frogs for a six-hour journey to the eastern edge of Angeles National Forest near Wrightwood, where they were released into a wild creek for the first time.

Aquafornia news July 22, 2014 Riverside Press-Enterprise

Governor Inks Bill Helping Neighborhood to Get Clean Water

From the Riverside Press-Enterprise:

A bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday, July 21, clears the way for two water districts to extend their systems to a neighborhood on the Wildomar-Menifee border that has been plagued by a poor quality, unreliable water supply.

Aquafornia news July 21, 2014

Commentary: A Plan to Prevent Copper Pollution in Waterways is Fatally Flawed

From The Sacramento Bee, in a commentary by Linda S. Adams and Karen L. Hathaway:

As early as next month, the State Water Resources Control Board could take up the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board’s recommendation for the maximum level of copper particulates allowed in Marina del Rey, one of the largest man-made harbors in the world.

Aquafornia news July 18, 2014 Associated Press

California Drought Doesn’t End Brown Lawn Warnings

From the Associated Press:

On the same day the state approved mandatory outdoor watering restrictions with the threat of $500 fines, the Southern California couple received a letter from their city threatening a $500 penalty for not watering their brown lawn.

Aquafornia news July 18, 2014 Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Punished for Saving Water — A Drought Catch-22

From the Los Angeles Times:

Talk about mixed messages: While Gov. Jerry Brown is warning that California faces its worst drought since record-keeping began and regulators have approved fines of up to $500 for wasting water, some Southern California cities are continuing to issue warnings and citations to residents who let their lawns go brown.

Aquafornia news July 16, 2014

Commentary: Worried About the Big One, L.A.? So’s Lucy Jones, But She’s Doing Something About It

From the Los Angeles Times, in a column by Patt Morrison:

Lucy Jones is the U.S. Geological Survey seismologist seconded by Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office to spend a year creating the city’s first seismic resilience plan. Her grandfather worked for William Mulholland’s DWP, and her great-great and great grandparents are buried in a cemetery on the San Andreas fault

Aquafornia news July 15, 2014 Santa Clarita Valley Signal

CLWA’s Water Rate Increase Thrown Out

From the Santa Clarita Valley Signal:

A Superior Court judge has ordered the Castaic Lake Water Agency, Santa Clarita Valley’s water retailer, to rescind an illegal “special tax” imposed on Santa Clarita Valley water retailers, who passed that rate on to customers.

Aquafornia news July 11, 2014

Commentary: Who You Gonna Call: ‘Drought Busters’ or ‘Water Conservation Response Unit’?

From the Los Angeles Times, in a commentary by Kerry Cavanaugh:

Dear Los Angeles Department of Water and Power,

Please bring back the “Drought Busters.”

Aquafornia news July 2, 2014 KPCC

LA’s Rainfall in Past 2 Years was Lowest in Recorded History

From KPCC:

Rainfall for the July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014 data collection season ended with Los Angeles receiving a total of 6.08 inches of rain.

California Acts to Speed Up Quake Fault Mapping

From the Los Angeles Times:

With Gov. Jerry Brown’s approval, California officials are reviving an ambitous plan to study dangerous earthquake faults and create zoning maps that could restrict development.

Aquafornia news June 30, 2014 Los Angeles Times

Southland Falls Short of Achieving 20% Voluntary Cut in Water Use

From the Los Angeles Times:

Southern Californians have fallen far short of achieving the 20% voluntary cut in water use sought by Gov. Jerry Brown in the face of the deep drought afflicting every corner of the state.

Aquafornia news June 30, 2014 Los Angeles Times

Developers Seek End to Federal Protections for California Gnatcatcher

From the Los Angeles Times:

Developers citing new scientific evidence are pressing to end federal protections for the California gnatcatcher, whose status as a threatened species has barred development in many areas of prime Southern California coastal real estate for two decades.

Aquafornia news June 30, 2014 Los Angeles Times

Developers Seek End to Federal Protections for California Gnatcatcher

From the Los Angeles Times:

Developers citing new scientific evidence are pressing to end federal protections for the California gnatcatcher, whose status as a threatened species has barred development in many areas of prime Southern California coastal real estate for two decades.

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