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SB-200 Drinking Water Bill Heads to Governor Newsom for Signature

For the past four years, WG has been working on a funding solution to address drinking water contamination issues in disadvantaged communities. While we initially advocated the funding should come from a small fee on water bills, and increased fees on agriculture that would have been tied to enforcement changes, the governor and legislature instead ...

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State Water Board Sticks to Failed Fish Justification for Water Grab

Last Friday, California water officials released a final proposal of amendments for the Lower San Joaquin River and Southern Delta flow objectives, as well as a draft Final Substitute Environmental Document. This plan, called Phase 1, can be found here. Phase 2, which will soon follow, will update flow requirements for the Sacramento River, its ...

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Proposed Eastern San Joaquin River Watershed Ag Order Still Includes Nitrogen Reporting Requirement

The California State Water Resources Control Board recently released the second proposed order revising the Eastern San Joaquin Agricultural General Waste Discharge Requirement. This proposal is being considered for adoption on February 7, 2018. Several impactful requirements in this order, which will become precedential for most all of agriculture statewide, are: Reporting of nitrogen applied…

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Governor Brown Highlights Prop 1 in Last State of the State Speech

Among the topics of Governor Jerry Brown’s final State of the State address, he briefly mentioned Proposition 1 (Prop 1), a $7.545 billion statewide ballot initiative also known as the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014. Governor Brown stated that Californians passed “a water bond that invests in safe drinking water, conservation ...

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CA DWR Announces Initial Notification Period for Basin Boundary Modification Requests under SGMA

The California Department of Water Resources’ initial notification period for Basin Boundary Modification Requests under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) opened on July 1, 2017. The notification period allows Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) or local agencies to begin the required meetings and coordination to support modifications. A tentative schedule for 2018…

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