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Rancho Seco Recreational Area Temporarily Closed to Day Visitors Due to COVID-19
3 Jul 2020

Rancho Seco Recreational Area Temporarily Closed to Day Visitors Due to COVID-19

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

Out of an abundance of caution, SMUD is temporarily closing the Rancho Seco Recreational Area to day visitors effective immediately after park operator employees learned a visitor that subsequently tested positive for COVID-19, SMUD reported in a press release this … Continued

Newsom Administration Rushes Forward with Delta Tunnel During a Pandemic
28 Jun 2020

Newsom Administration Rushes Forward with Delta Tunnel During a Pandemic

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) on June 17 took another key action in its plan to build the Delta Tunnel, a massive public works project that a coalition of fishermen, Tribal leaders, environmentalists, family farmers, Delta residents, elected officials and other … Continued

Interior Requests Funding for Shasta Dam raise, Sites Reservoir and Friant-Kern Canal
25 Jun 2020

Interior Requests Funding for Shasta Dam raise, Sites Reservoir and Friant-Kern Canal

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

Photo of Shasta Dam courtesy of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.  The Department of Interior on Monday, June 22, requested $15 million for the Shasta Dam enlargement project, a project that Tribes, fishing groups and conservation organizations say will drive imperiled winter-run Chinook … Continued

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Klamath Basin ‘Takings’ Case, Upholding Tribes’ Senior Water Rights
22 Jun 2020

Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Klamath Basin ‘Takings’ Case, Upholding Tribes’ Senior Water Rights

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court today refused to hear the case of Baley vs. United States, an 18-year-old case regarding water rights on the Klamath Basin, agreeing with the Court of Appeals that Basin irrigators’ water rights were subordinate to the Tribes’ federal reserved water … Continued

Delta Tunnel Action Alert – Santa Clara Valley Water District
17 Jun 2020

Delta Tunnel Action Alert – Santa Clara Valley Water District

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

Restore the Delta has issued an action alert regarding the Santa Clara Valley Water District: “On June 23, 2020, the Santa Clara Valley Water District will be discussing the possibility of putting a funding measure on the November ballot. We … Continued

Public Advocacy Groups Criticize Westlands’ Attempted Bond Sales for Controversial Water Contract
10 Jun 2020

Public Advocacy Groups Criticize Westlands’ Attempted Bond Sales for Controversial Water Contract

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

In a letter sent to credit rating agency Fitch Ratings, six public advocacy groups with members throughout California criticized efforts by Westlands Water District to market revenue bonds for a controversial water contract that remains unenforceable. Westlands, the nation’s largest … Continued

Lawsuit by Three Groups Challenges Federal Water Contracts Imperiling Delta, Fish
21 May 2020

Lawsuit by Three Groups Challenges Federal Water Contracts Imperiling Delta, Fish

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

SACRAMENTO— In the latest lawsuit to contest federal water policies, three environmental groups on May 20 sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation over the granting of permanent federal water contracts to water users supplied by the Central Valley Project (CVP). The lawsuit, brought by … Continued

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Reclamation’s Increased Water Exports Plan
13 May 2020

Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Reclamation’s Increased Water Exports Plan

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

SACRAMENTO – A federal court on Monday, May 11, granted a preliminary injunction in two lawsuits — one filed by the state and the other by fishing and conservation groups — challenging the Trump Administration’s expansion of water export operations in the Central Valley. … Continued

Delta Tunnel Forges Ahead in Pandemic: Agreement in Principal Reached for SWP Contract Amendment
13 May 2020

Delta Tunnel Forges Ahead in Pandemic: Agreement in Principal Reached for SWP Contract Amendment

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Spotlight | 0

On April 30 during the midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the negotiators for the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Contractors finalized an Agreement In Principle (AIP) for the State  Contract Amendment for Delta Conveyance, according to a notice sent out … Continued

78.2 lb. white seabass tops San Francisco Bay catches
13 May 2020

78.2 lb. white seabass tops San Francisco Bay catches

by Dan Bacher | posted in: Reports, Spotlight | 0

Jim Rogers of Woodland was drifting live bait from a private boat in San Francisco Bay on Saturday when he bagged a 78.2-pound white seabass, a migratory species more common in warmer waters off the coast of Southern California. The … Continued

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