Save Calaveras County Community Plans

When Calaveras County Planning Department staff members released the text of the draft general plan for public comment in December of last year, they disappointed many people by not including the community plans prepared by local citizens. To save your community plans, you need to again ask the planning director and the county supervisors to adopt community plans at the same time that they adopt the updated general plan.  Read More  Read More

As the drought worsens, LA water agencies offer cash to Sacramento Valley farmers:

“With the drought stretching into its fourth year, a heavyweight water agency from Los Angeles has come calling on Sacramento Valley rice farmers, offering up to $71 million for some of their water.  The price being offered is so high, some farmers can make more from selling water than from growing their rice. Many are willing to deal: Nine irrigation districts, mainly serving rice growers along the Feather River basin, have made tentative deals... Read More

3200 people risk running out of water in drought:

The Lake Don Pedro community is operating in emergency mode.  For the last several weeks, work crews have drilled well after well, hoping to find groundwater.  “We’re on our sixth test hole, and none of the other test holes yet have produced enough to be worthwhile to develop into permanent groundwater sources,” says Pete Kampa, general manager of Lake Don Pedro Community Services District. … ”  Read more from Capital Public Radio here:  3200... Read More

County General Plan postcards mailed out late

By the time property owners receive their postcards notifying them that the Calaveras County General Plan is being updated, they will have only a week, maybe less, to comment on the draft version of the plan. Read More  Read More

Board of Supervisor’s vote to ease regulation of Stanislaus fish flows

Officials in Calaveras County discuss water allocations for fish and farms and the effect on local water supply, while some also call for more growth in the very areas most affected by the drought. Calaveras Enterprise, March 13  Read More

No bill introduced, but wild and scenic battle rages on

Update on last week’s actions in favor of Wild and Scenic protection (East Bay) and AB 142, Assemblyman Bigelow’s “spend, study and stall” bill that pushes back WS designation. Calaveras Enterprise, March 13  Read More

CCWD – Water Flow A Top Issue

The Calaveras County Water District (CCWD) Board got an update on the possible Lake Tulloch draw down and voted on whether to back a bill to study the impact of the state’s “wild and scenic” designation for the Mokelumne River. Read More  Read More

Limited’ water exports OK’d

State water watchdogs may allow more water to be pumped south from the Delta this month, but only under “very limited circumstances.” Read More  Read More

Water storage projects need critical analysis

The Bee opines on the use of the water bond for more water storage. Sacramento Bee editorial, March 8  Read More

Shaping water storage expansion in California

Professor Jay Lund and his co-author discuss the need for an integrated approach to water. Read More  Read More