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• The Sierra Nevada?s blue gold
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:52:51 +0000
  From UC Davis: “Gia Martynn, the watershed coordinator for the Feather River Coordinated Resource Management Group, calls water the ‘blue gold’ of the California’s Sierra Nevada. She says few Californians know where their water comes from, but believes it is imperative for all to understand its value.”
• Water Worries: Farmers always in fear of losing water rights
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:51:06 +0000
  From UC Davis: “Cindy Maddalena, who together with her husband manages a farm in Sierra Valley, Calif., are always in fear of losing their water rights. She explains that the state of California requires farmers to monitor their on-farm water quality and that the farmers themselves must bear the cost of the monitoring program. ”
• Friends of the River withdraws from the Klamath Hydropower Settlement Agreement
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:34:09 +0000
  From the Friends of the River, this media statement: “Sacramento, CA (February 8, 2010) Friends of the River (FOR), a statewide, grassroots conservation organization working on behalf of California rivers, announced today that it will not sign the Klamath Hydropower Settlement Agreement (KHSA). The KHSA outlines a plan for potential future removal of four hydroelectric dams [...]
• One man?s mission: Eel River cleanup
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:27:09 +0000
  From the Eureka Times-Standard: “John Casali grew up in a close-knit, Italian working class neighborhood, three blocks from San Francisco’s Fishermen’s Wharf. It was the 1950s, a much more innocent time as he remembers it, when at 13, he and his friends started spending their Saturdays and summers playing down at the wharf, fishing out of their [...]
• Napa Valley: Working to make wastewater ponds go away
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:25:15 +0000
  From the Napa Valley Register: “Two Napa firms have joined forces with the idea of greatly reducing the size of winery wastewater ponds, or possibly eliminating them from the valley?s landscape. Riechers Spence & Associates and Heritage Systems, both of Napa, have put their heads together and come up with a way to reuse as many as [...]
• El Dorado Irrigation District works on restructuring its debt
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:23:02 +0000
  From the Sacramento Bee: ” El Dorado Irrigation District officials moved Monday to restructure the district’s debt after approving scaled-back rate increases last week. District officials over the past month announced a number of steps to boost revenue and cut costs in an effort to minimize rate hikes while maintaining the required debt coverage. Customer outrage over the [...]
• Junk accumulating on Monterey Bay ocean floor: Scientists find increasing levels of debris in the deep sea
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:21:19 +0000
  From the Silicon Valley Mercury News: “Deep below the pale blue shimmering surface of Monterey Bay, lies a ton of trash. “We have even seen artillery shells – large artillery shells, spools of cable and a little unbroken teapot just sitting on the sand,” said Diana Watters of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries [...]
• Judge eases curbs on pumping to San Luis Reservoir
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:16:40 +0000
  From the Hollister Free Lance: “A federal judge has temporarily lifted pumping curbs designed to protect salmon migration in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, an action that allows the diversion of more winter storm flows to the San Luis Reservoir and to farms and cities in the south. Friday’s ruling is the latest in a tortuous legal [...]
• Success Dam among supervisors? federal appropriation requests
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:14:49 +0000
  From the Porterville Recorder: “County supervisors will vote on Tuesday on a handful of federal appropriation requests, including $10 million in funding for the Lake Success Dam Seismic Remediation project. The money would go toward completing the design of the new dam, acquiring property and other pre-construction activities. If the Tulare County Board of Supervisors approves the platform, [...]
• Fight to re-fill Kern River heats up; A state board could change where water flows
  published on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:12:31 +0000
  From Bakersfield’s Channel 23: “It is a water fight that could take a new turn next week as the city of Bakersfield is fighting to re-fill the Kern River. It’s been several years since the river flowed through the heart of town, but a state board is poised to possibly change that next week. The State [...]