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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Wastewater Drug Sampling
This was an interesting article that I received from a friend on the EPA Decentralized list serve. There’s a lot more than endocrine disruptors to sample. Did you notice that the SCWA published a sewer lateral inspection ordinance? Bob Rawson … Continue reading
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Talking Points on Water for General Plan Update Hearings
Draft Talking Points for Supervisors’ Hearings on Water Aspects of the General Plan Update: Open Space and Resource Conservation Element (including riparian corridors): Wednesday, August 29, at 6:00 pm in the Glaser Center, and Thursday, August 30, at 1:30 pm … Continue reading
Ninth Circuit Upholds Criminal Penalties for Modification of Intermittent Stream
August 22, 2007 By Leslie Z. Walker and Janell M. Bogue Admonishing appellant for 20 years of blatant disregard for the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) and the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), the Ninth Circuit upheld the Idaho district court’s … Continue reading
The Importance of Protecting Vulnerable Streams and Wetlands
Karen Cappiella and Lisa Fraley-McNeal Center for Watershed Protection Introduction Over the past 30 years, the primary authority protecting our nation’s water bodies from being filled, polluted, or otherwise degraded has been the federal Clean Water Act (CWA). Many states, … Continue reading
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Finite Resource: Connections of Groundwater and Surface Water
Finite resource EDITOR: Congratulations to Staff Writer Bleys Rose and The Press Democrat for Tuesday’s story on pumping groundwater from previously inactive wells so that cities dependent on Russian River water do not have to really conserve. They reduce Russian … Continue reading
303(d) Listings Posted for Laguna and Other Water Bodies
This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. ____________________________________________________________ FYI, The SWRCB just posted the 303(d) listings for Laguna and other water bodies in our northcoast region. Click on the link to see the data. –Larry The … Continue reading
Letter by LCV to Cities Regarding Water Conservation
To: City Manager (Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Sonoma, Coati, Rohnert Park, Windsor, Healdsburg, Sebastopol), or, To: District Manager (Valley of the Moon, North Marin Water District, Marin Municipal Water District) The League of Women Voters would like to be provided with … Continue reading
Regionalizing Sewer in West Sonoma County?
Hi everyone! I want to call to your attention an article in today’s Press Democrat about a “Strategic Plan” being led by Mike Reilly and Tim Smith. Hearings will be held around the County in September (see below for partial … Continue reading
Large, New Water Diversions
This is an application for over 600 af/yr new water diversions (pumping “underflow” by wells) from the Russian River near Talmadge, Mendocino Co, for grape irrigation by the Rogina Water Company. I’m hoping that there will be a protest from … Continue reading
Does the New County General Plan Hold Water?
by Veronica Jacobi and Stephen Fuller-Rowell – Sonoma County Water Coalition Co-Founders Sonoma County residents want a General Plan that protects our quality of life, which depends on a reliable supply of clean water. Water was a high priority for … Continue reading