The Advisory Committee for Water Plan Update 2013 is being formed to help develop and refine policy recommendations for the plan. There also is a proposal to establish interest-based and regional-based fo- rums. These groups would be chaired by AC members associated with a particular interest or region. More information and a link to the […]
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Proposal for Quantifying and Evaluating Water Management Responses
The Water Plan team will be holding a meeting of the Statewide Water Analysis Network (SWAN) on Aug.19 when it will present a technical proposal for quantifying and evaluating water management responses for Update 2013. SWAN serves as the technical advisory group for the Water Plan. August 19, 2010, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m., Statewide […]
Read MoreUnnatural Problems with Natural Gas
S. T., Futurism Now August 5th, 2009 For anyone who thinks natural gas is clean (it’s not) and safe (it’s not) and green (are you kidding?) this story will add to the truth about it. Leaks during drilling continue to happen and terrify the people who live near where they happen. People like T. Boone […]
Read MoreEnergy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data
August 5, 2010 The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing — that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong — are challenged by the same data and reports the industry is […]
Read MoreDrought Contingency Plan Workshop Aug. 10
DWR will hold a workshop Aug. 10 about a just-releasd draft Drought Contingency Plan. The workshop will be held in Sacramento at CalEPA, Klamath Training Room. http://www.waterplan.water.ca.gov/docs/meeting_materials/drought/2010.08.10/CA_Drought_Contingency_Plan-Public_Review_Draft-081010.pdf
Read MoreFracking Chemicals — Just how harmful can 1 percent be?
Betsey Piette, July 2010 Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011 Potentially toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are used in the hydraulic fracturing process to obtain natural gas from shale. Whenever industry officials are confronted with concerns regarding their use, their standard answer is, “The chemicals account for less than 1 percent of the […]
Read MoreFractured Logic: The Peril in “Fracking” Chemicals
Environmental Working Group, August 2010 If your family got its water from your own well (and a lot of people do), what would you say to someone who wanted to pump a whole grab-bag of chemicals into the ground nearby, including some that are known to be toxic or to cause cancer? Just guessing here, […]
Read MoreTell Your Senators to Support Green Infrastructure!
Tell Your Senators to Support Green Infrastructure! Last week Senators Udall (D-NM) and Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced the Green Infrastructure for Clean Water Act of 2010 (S. 3561) the Senate companion to H.R. 4202 introduced by Representative Edwards (D-MD) last year. These companion bills would provide critical support for green infrastructure strategies, improving our ability to […]
Read MoreMiss Perchlorate is a Bomb Shell!
This is cute, but they need better interview answers to keep the interest levels up. Jane Miss Perchlorate is a bomb shell! She’s interviewed in one of the videos. Stephen BAD ACTOR CHEMICALS & TOXIE AWARDS http://changecalifornia.typepad.com/files/BAD_ACTOR_REPORT_FINAL-large.pdf Jeff Goodell asks, Who Gets Rich From Geoengineering? His answer: Lobbyists, Carbon-guzzling entrepreneurs, Investors in geoengineering companies, Geoengineering conference […]
Read MoreWater: Will There Be Enough?
Sandra Postel, Yes! Magazine, Jun 4 2010 For at least three decades, Americans have had some inkling that we face an uncertain energy future, but we’ve ignored a much more worrisome crisis-water. Cheap and seemingly abundant, water is so common that it’s hard to believe we could ever run out. Ever since the Apollo astronauts […]
Read MoreLawsuit alleges county failure to monitor groundwater
Siskiyou Daily News-6/29/10 By David Smith A lawsuit recently filed in the California Superior Court in Sacramento County seeks to have the court compel the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and Siskiyou County to fix alleged groundwater regulation failures in the Scott Valley watershed. The petition, filed by the Environmental Law Foundation and the […]
Read MoreKnights Valley’s Pelton House Winery Ruling Documents
Here is the Order granting Petition For Writ of Mandate from Judge Boyd requiring an EIR for the Pelton House (Maacama Watershed Alliance vs. County of Sonoma and Jess Jackson). Particularly noteworthy here is that every issue brought up by Maacama Watershed Alliance counsel Paul V. Carroll was decided against Sonoma County and Jess Jackson. […]
Read MorePros & Cons of November California Water Bond
Save the Date! Monday, June 28, 2010, 10 am – 12:30 pm Meeting Location: State Coastal Conservancy, 11th floor conference room, 1330 Broadway at 13th Street, downtown Oakland Pros & Cons of November 2010 California Water Bond Two analysts and two advocates discuss the water bond measure Lucy Allen, Research Analyst Pacific Institute Darla Guenzler, […]
Read MoreAB 2304 – Groundwater Protection
To All, From Huffman’s legislative update email… AB 2304 – Groundwater Protection: Promotes the management and protection of the state’s groundwater supplies by requiring local water agencies to map the recharge areas that substantially contribute to the replenishment of groundwater, and submit this information to local planning agencies. Status: Passed off the Assembly Floor with […]
Read MoreOne-Day Sonoma Valley Groundwater Tour, June 18
Good afternoon, I wanted to let all attendees of the Russian River Tour in 2009 know about a new one-day groundwater tour of the Sonoma Valley that the Water Education Foundation is organizing. The Foundation, in partnership with UC Davis, is planning a new one-day Sonoma Valley Wine Country Groundwater Tour on June 18 as […]
Read MoreProperty Owners Who Divert Water Must File Statements of Use
Justine Fredickerson, The Daily Journal Under new law, state board can impose $1,000 fee Under state legislation passed last year, some property owners will face hefty fines beginning this summer if they do not file statements documenting their water use, according to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). Senate Bill 8 (SBX7 8), which […]
Read MoreBest Family Winery Hearing June 8, 2:10 pm
There is a public file at Sonoma County Permit and Resource Management Department (PRMD) 2550 Ventura Ave. Santa Rosa- in the county complex buildings. All of the reports, letters, etc. are there. A report by Dr. Bob Curry, hydrologist, was submitted. There is also a very interesting letter from the California Regional Water Control Board, […]
Read MoreProtest Mountaintop Mining!
Voice Your Support for EPA’s Proposed Veto of the Largest Mountaintop Mine in Appalachia! CWN strongly supports EPA’s move to veto the permit for the largest proposed mountaintop removal mine in Appalachia. Unfortunately the mining industry is already attacking EPA’s proposed determination, calling the move “unprecedented, unjustified and underserved.” Nothing could be further from the […]
Read MoreWater Board Chair Hoppin and His Biased Statements
Interested Parties I am not sure the State Board Chair understands his job – or – the Role of regulators and other concerned interests. Read the Board Chair statements and my questions to Charlie (that went unanswered – below). As if Ag was not organized ! By the way, I have a lot respect State […]
Read MoreGreen Valley Creek Restoration of Salmonids
KB, Really excellent. It seems that most climatologists are predicting severe drought in the West in the coming future; while our Board of Supes encourages development (property taxes, income) and the use of water as though it were an infinite resource. At the last hearing re the Best Family winery, I spoke of the fact […]
Read MoreOutcomes of No. Cal. Instream Flows Hearing
To All, This is a short update on the outcome of the AB – 2121 hearing As it stands there were substantitive changes to the language – from just prior to the hearing and from the hearing itself – that were improvements on issues of our concern. This changes are now on the State Board […]
Read MoreRussian River/Mark West Creek Workshop Sunday, April 25
Restore North Coast Stream Flow Campaign Russian River/Mark West Creek Workshop Date: Sunday April 25, 2010-RSVP to (put the appropriate name in here for your PR) Time: 10:00 A.M. -3:00 P.M. Location: Alpine Hall, 5380 St. Helena Rd. Santa Rosa, Ca. or http://www.beautiful-events.com/mem/alpinehall.htm I. Welcome and Introduction-Watershed tour of Mark West Creek tributary to the […]
Read MoreClean Water Network Support Letter for Green Infrastructure–H.R. 4202
Clean Water Network Support Letter for Green Infrastructure–H.R. 4202 March 26th, 2010 Brought to you by Clean Water Network,the largest national coalition in the country working to protect ALL of the waters of the U.S., including the nation’s Great Waters, rivers, streams, lakes, bays, estuaries, coastal areas and wetlands. Today, the Clean Water Network submitted […]
Read MoreNew Book, “Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A Practical Guide”
FYI…From the perspective of ‘life-long-learning’ this new book looks interesting, especially for those of us directly working on such related efforts? I have ordered it, but not yet had it in hand… Brock Completion and publication of a layperson’s guide to watershed hydrology and groundwater hydrology. The book, entitled “Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A […]
Read MoreDiscussion: “Drugs in Wastewater” Article
Clean Water Friends: This is a wonderful first step and one that has been requested for at least 15 years now. Unfortunately, they don’t include study of estrogens and other hormones, which may be the most critically important substances to study. That will happen down the road, but at least we are now on the […]
Read MoreNevada Pipeline Victory Upheld
In January, the Center for Biological Diversity — as part of the Great Basin Water Network — won a big victory in Nevada when the state’s supreme court overturned dozens of water-rights applications to pump groundwater nearly 300 miles for Las Vegas sprawl. In an attempt to fight back for the pipeline, Governor Jim Gibbons […]
Read MoreWatersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A Practical Guide
FYI…From the perspective of ‘life-long-learning’ this new book looks interesting, especially for those of us directly working on such related efforts? I have ordered it, but not yet had it in hand… Brock Completion and publication of a layperson’s guide to watershed hydrology and groundwater hydrology. The book, entitled “Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A […]
Read MoreSanta Rosa Groundwater “Recharge”
To All, One thing you will hear over and over about ground water in the Santa Rosa area is that it is in a “recharge area” . However this paradigm needs to shift. It implies that we can draw from the water resources without consequence because it will always “recharge and come back”. This is […]
Read MoreMore Wells Sinking the Central Valley
To All The consolidation caused by the repeated pumping action of ASR’s (AKA “ground water banking”) causes permanent compression of the formation also. This is the biggest crime of all because the ground water storage capacity is reduced forever. It never comes back. Lloyd Hi Don– The attached jpg file shows the situation in the […]
Read MoreCalifornia Water Boondoggle
If you have been wondering why government cant seem to get anything right, consider this: Not only is the government manipulated by special interest influence, it also caters outright to special interests. Pandering politicians continuously and repeatedly create government boondoggles — a series of reinvented mini-ENRONs — plagueing us and our wallets, over and over […]
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