Governor’s Environmental Goals and Policy Report – Sierra Region

Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR)  is pleased to announce an additional workshop in the Sierra region on the Discussion Draft if the Governor’s Environmental Goals and Policy Report. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, June 4 from 10-1 at Lake Tahoe Community College. To accommodate this additional workshop, OPR will accept comments on the draft through June 6, 2014. For additional information questions can be sent... Read More

VOTE FOR MOKE WILD & SCENIC NOW!

Senate voting on  Mokelumne Wild & Scenic!  Tell your Senator TODAY to vote “Aye” on SB 1199 for CA state Wild and Scenic designation for the Mokelumne River! Water agencies thirsting to build more dams and divert more rivers in the Sierra Nevada have launched a vicious attack on SB 1199, Senator Loni Hancock’s bill to protect 37 miles of the Mokelumne River as a California Wild & Scenic River. The attack comes as the full... Read More

CHS students & CPC lobby for Moke Wild & Scenic

Senate Bill 1199 – sponsored by Sen. Lori Hancock, a Democrat out of Berkeley, and introduced April 4 – aims to protect a stretch of 37 miles of the Mokelumne River including the remaining free-flowing segments of the North Fork and main stem of the Mokelumne River. A Wild and Scenic River designation gives California waterways protection from many future impacts, particularly dams. Not everyone supports the designation, including directors for... Read More

The Mokelumne Current: A special section by students

Lodi students with the guidance of journalists created a special publication, The Mokelumne Current, all with a connection to the Mokelumne River. Lodi News-Sentinel, April 24  Read More

CCWD directors oppose Wild and Scenic

Water directors join the water agency opposition to SB 1199. Calaveras Enterprise, April 29 http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_6b8d2958-cf26-11e3-aad0-0019bb2963f4.html  Read More

Desperation during drought: A plan to run the California Aqueduct backward

“Desperate times call for desperate measures, and California’s severe drought is already inspiring a few.  Water districts in the San Joaquin Valley are proposing a drought tactic that’s never been tried: they want to reverse the state’s plumbing by running the California Aqueduct backwards. … The aqueduct was designed to go in one direction – north to south. Until now, that is. ... ”  Read more from KQED here:  In California Drought,... Read More

Water war on the horizon: State threatens to cut off SSJID water to protect fish:

“A water war is about to erupt on the Stanislaus River.  It’s all because the State of California — which may stop all diversions from the Stanislaus River starting June 5 to protect fish — has told the South San Joaquin Irrigation District that it may overrule historic water rights.  If that were to happen it means Ripon, Escalon and Manteca farmers would run out of irrigation water by mid-August.  The cities of Manteca, Lathrop, and Tracy... Read More

California Edging Closer to Regulating Groundwater for the First Time

California’s invisible reservoir, the water that resides in underground aquifers beneath our feet is about to be regulated.  Sen. Fran Pavley (D-Agoura Hills) puts a trio of water conservation bills before her Natural Resources and Water Committee, the centerpiece of which (SB 1168) is a frontal assault on the management of California’s groundwater, which, compared to other western states, is almost unregulated. Read Here  Read More

Amador County Supes oppose Wild & Scenic, again

The introducti0n of Senator Loni Hancock’s SB 1199 for a “Wild & Scenic” status for a stretch of the Mokelumne River have led the Amador County Board of Supervisors to once again reject the effort. Read Here Note:  The California Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water is holding a hearing next Tuesday, April 29, at 9:00 am on Sen. Loni Hancock’s SB 1199 to designate the Mokelumne River a state Wild and Scenic River.... Read More

Governor Brown issues Executive Order to redouble state drought actions + reactions

This just in: “The driest months are still to come in California and extreme drought conditions will get worse,” said Governor Brown. Read Here  Read More