Contact Your Local County Commissioner and Tell Him or Her to Support Clean Water! The National Association of Counties (NACo) represents county governments all throughout the U.S. Each year, NACo meets to consider resolutions on federal issues that affect their local governments. Because this organization is made up of local officials, NACo is very influential with Congress. In […]
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Sign Up for Tour by Water Agency
Here’s a free tour by people who are intimately familiar with the system. Conversation: Email to WAC and TAC – SCWA Tour Date – Save the date! Subject: FW: Email to WAC and TAC – SCWA Tour Date – Save the date! Save the Date: WAC/TAC Tour of SCWA Russian River Water Supply System What: […]
Read MoreBasin Plan Amendment Decisions at Water Board Meeting
Hi everyone: There is an extremely critical meeting coming up at the North Coast Regional Board on July 23rd at about 9 AM at their offices near the airport at 5550 Skylane Blvd. This is the meeting where they will decide on a Basin Plan Amendment (water law for the North Coast and Russian River) […]
Read MoreA Series on California’s Water Can be Seen on Website
FYI…BrockCalifornia’s Water: An Overview “California’s Water” is a multi-part series for public television produced by Huell Howser and underwritten by members of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA). The series explores California’s water resources and the complex system of natural and man-made features that has allowed growing communities, productive farms, industry and ecosystems to […]
Read MorePower outages disable Coyote Valley Dam
FYI, Odd that there is no back-up generator – ModeratorPower outages disable Coyote Valley DamLAURA NORTON, THE PRESS DEMOCRATPublished: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 9:01 a.m.Last Modified: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 9:13 a.m.A seven-hour power outage near Ukiah Tuesday night disabled the Coyote Valley Dam at Lake Mendocino, dropping Russian River water levels overnight.The worst occurred […]
Read MoreClean Water Restoration Act Passes on to Senate Floor
Hi Everyone – Just wanted to let you know that by a straight party line vote (12 Democrats to 7 Republicans) the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passed the Clean Water Restoration Act on to the full Senate. Senator Barbara Boxer deserves full credit and a ton of congratulations for getting this passed. Even […]
Read More4th Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium
4th Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium July 23-24 on the Salmon River Following the annual Salmon River dives, SRF and Salmon River Restoration Council will host the 4th Annual Spring-run Chinook Symposium featuring rafting tours of Creek Mouth Enhancement Projects on the Mid Klamath tributaries, field trips to fish passage projects on the Salmon River; hands-on […]
Read MoreClean Water Network’s Update on Capitol Hill
News from Capitol Hill Thanks to the hard work of so many Clean Water Network members, the US Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) is taking a giant leap forward by considering critical clean water legislation tomorrow! Tomorrow, June 18 at 9:30 AM, the EPW Committee will mark up (vote on) and consider a number of […]
Read MoreClean Water Act Alert
Finally, after years of delay, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) is going to mark up (vote on) a compromise version of the Clean Water Restoration Act (S. 787) THIS Thursday, June 18. This is an all-hands-on-deck alert! We need your help to make sure our Senators know how critically important it is […]
Read MoreIImpressions of the Guerneville Low Flow Meeting
Impressions of the Guerneville Low Flow Meeting My impressions of the meeting? I wonder sometimes what the purpose is of some bureaucratic meetings. I suspect most of the time it is simply fulfilling the mandates of public obligation in the law–really a dog and pony show. In this case, did they really want the community’s […]
Read MoreRussian River Low Flows Letter
Dear Ms. Whitney: I submitted extensive comments on the Emergency Order issued by your office in April regarding water diversions from Lake Mendocino in Sonoma County. I also attended the Board Workshop in early May and gave testimony on this issue. I represent Russian River Watershed Protection Committee, a local non profit that has been […]
Read MoreAustralia Drought Portends Future for Russian River?
At the SWRCB meeting 5/6 hearing the protest by the Contractors about the proposed RR flow cutbacks, Vicky Whitney (staff in charge of water rights) presented a graph of historic droughts (423 years) in the Russian River watershed, from the Univ. of Arizona, showing length of historic drought events based on Blue Oak tree rings, […]
Read MoreClean Water Restoration Act Update
Latest Buzz on the Clean Water Restoration Act Last week the Obama Administration sent a letter to Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Chairman Boxer urging enactment of legislation to clarify the scope of Clean Water Act jurisdiction in the wake of the 2001 SWANNC and the 2006 Rapanos Supreme Court decisions. Chairman Boxer welcomed this letter in a press release posted on the EPW website last Thursday. […]
Read MoreClean Water Restoration Act Action
Clean Water Restoration Act Moves Closer to Mark-Up – Your Help is Needed! Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Chairman Barbara Boxer (CA) has stated her intent to move the Clean Water Restoration Act (S.787) to mark-up. Yesterday at an EPA budget briefing with Administrator Lisa Jackson, Chairman Boxer stated that muddied jurisdiction needs to be fixed now. Though […]
Read MoreFilm: End of the Line
To All, “The inconvenient truth about the impact of overfishing on the world’s oceans” — The Economist Fresh from its World Premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, THE END OF THE LINE is the first major documentary about the imminent peril facing the world’s oceans. Narrated by Ted Danson and based on the book […]
Read MoreNSCAR FEIS/FEIR Comes before Sonoma County BOS
The NSCAR FEIS/FEIR will be presented to the SCWA Board of Directors on May 12, 2009 at 8:30 am at 575 Administration Drive, Santa Rosa, California. The full notice for this is below. –Larry NOTICE OF AVAILABILTY OF A FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO CERTIFY AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT Pursuant to […]
Read MoreComments on RR Low Flow, Dams, and Conservation
Brian (et al): My message was designed to raise questions (of which I still have many) and get folks to go look at the policy – web link provided. I still have concerns and will insert them into your text in CAPS: Cumulative effects – I *strongly* disagree that the recommendations do not account for […]
Read MoreDiscussion on Proposed Reduction of Flows to Russian River
Just to clarify – yes, there is substantial Eel River water in the Russian River flows at the Wohler pumps/Raney collectors. Alan SCWA continues to equivocate and obfuscate the reality that they have made themselves dependent on Eel River transfers to keep the Russian River flowing at D.1610 minimum flows – and of course, remarkably, […]
Read MoreWater Shortage or Plumbing Problem?
David Bolling INDEX-TRIBUNE EDITOR, April 27, 2009 Depending on how you define a river, there are well over 100 in California conveying the state’s liquid life through an intricate, arterial maze. Sift through the inventory, river-by-river, and you will find only one discrete system – the Smith, in remote Del Norte County – without a […]
Read MoreALERT: PRESERVATION RANCH: PUBLIC SCOPING, INITIAL STUDY
ALERT: PRESERVATION RANCH: PUBLIC SCOPING, INITIAL STUDY PUBLIC NOTICE of the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) for “PRESERVATION” RANCH ACTION ALERT: PRESERVATION RANCH — NOTICE of Environmental Impact Report Public Scoping Sessions WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2009, 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. PRMD Hearing Room, 2550 Ventura Avenue, Santa Rosa. SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2009, 1:00 p.m. to […]
Read MoreClean Water Restoration Act UPDATE
Clean Water Restoration Act UPDATE On Thursday, April 2, 2009 Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin introduced the Clean Water Restoration Act of 2009 (S.787). To read the text of this legislation go to the Library of Congress website and do a bill search for S.787: http://thomas.loc.gov/ Senator Barbara Boxer is an original co-sponsor of the […]
Read MoreScoping Meetings on Preservation Ranch Set
I received a notice in the mail for- Public Scoping Meetings for Preparation of a Draft EIR These meetings are for an application received by Sonoma County PRMD to convert 1,681 acres of timberland to vineyard on a 19,300 acre ranch, residential development and lots of roads referred to as Preservation Ranch located just east […]
Read MoreThe Clean Water Restoration Act
In 1972, Congress passed an expansive Clean Water Act to protect all “waters of the United States.” For almost 30 years, both the courts and the agencies responsible for administering the Act interpreted it to broadly protect our Nation’s waters. However, in two recent decisions, Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. U.S. Army […]
Read MoreNEW REPORT: In California and Across Nation, Waters in Crisis!
Today Clean Water Network members from Clean Water Action, Earthjustice, Environment America, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club and the Southern Environmental Law Center released Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It. This new report details how muddied Supreme Court decisions […]
Read MorePublic Meetings and Comments on Prop 84 Drinking Water
This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. _________________________________ Announcement from the California Department of Public Health Drinking Water Program Interested Parties: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Drinking Water Program is required by Senate Bills X2 1 and 732 to establish new criteria for Proposition 84, Section 75025 funding. This […]
Read MoreSonoma County Workshop on Future Water Supply
Brenda, Vesta, Here is information about the Water Supply Workshop that is happening this upcoming Monday, April 13th. Any help on getting the word out would be appreciated! Ann p.s. This is an abbreviated version of a press release that will be sent out to all media tomorrow but which is still in draft form […]
Read MoreComment on Russian PD’s River Low Flows Article
To All, There’s not enough water this year in Lake Mendocino to meet D.1610 minimum streamflow requirements this fall, particularly for the fall Chinook run. Yet, in their typical business-as-usual manner, in the SCWA’s Water Supply, Transmission and Reliability Project (“WSTRP”) DEIR, the Agency’s proposal for obtaining an additional 26,000af/y from the Russian River, refuses […]
Read MoreClean Water Act Action
Dear Clean Water Network Members and Others, REMINDER: ACT NOW to schedule meetings with your Senators and Representatives for the in-district work period of April 6-17 to talk with them about restoring the Clean Water Act. Setting up a meeting takes advance time, so it is best to get a request in as soon as […]
Read MoreWorkshop on Draft 305(b) WQ Assessment/303(d) List of Impaired Waters
Hello there, The public meeting I attended last week had a very light turnout (4 people). It would be good for many more people to be familiar with this report and to provide feedback. It lays the ground (so to speak) for much that will follow. Have a wonderful wet week, Rue —— To Interested […]
Read MoreSpeak Up for Clean Water in the Russian River Watershed
Speak Up for Clean Water in the Russian River Watershed!! Impaired Waterways Workshop Join Russian Riverkeeper and the California Coastkeeper Alliance for a workshop on how to use the public comment process to effectively speak up for the health of your local waterways! Monday, March 9th, 6:00pm @ the Environmental Center of Sonoma (Directions) Every two years, by federal […]
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