Russian River Update 12/5/23
Reservoir Storage & Operations:
Water supply information provided by Sonoma Water (more info here).
Trans Basin Diversion Update
Lake County News: Supervisors to discuss PG&E’s Potter Valley Project decommissioning plan, 12/4/23
Russian River Water Forum
The agenda for the December 7 Planning Group Meeting is now available here. The meeting will be hybrid: in-person at the Ukiah Valley Conference Center and virtual via Zoom, from 10 am to 1 pm. You can register here if you have not already done so.
WATER FORUM WORK GROUPS UPDATE: Statement issued by facilitation team: "Given the limited resources available to support the RRWF process and the need to prioritize support for future Planning Group discussions concerning PG&E's Potter Valley Project license surrender plans, all RRWF working groups will be winding down."
DWR Sustainable Groundwater Management News: November 2023 Newsletter
Read the November 30, 2023 newsletter here.
In the press:
- CA Water Plan eNews, November 29, 2023
- Maven's Notebook: Nov. 26 – Dec. 1, 2023
- The monthly Abacela Weather-Climate Summary and Forecast is now available here.
- Russian River Watershed Assoc: Taking the Dirty Out of Stormwater, 12/1/23
- San Francisco Chronicle (GIFT ARTICLE): California’s next round of atmospheric river storms may be coming soon. Here’s the forecast, 12/1/23
- Nor Cal Public Media: Organic growers see new role in the age of climate change, 12/4/23
- Sacramento Bee (via Yahoo! News): Warmer winter temperatures in California could make ‘storms more hazardous,’ report says, 12/4/23
- Civil Eats: Can Agriculture Kick Its Plastic Addiction?, 12/4/23
- ABC10 news: California Drought: Where are the winter storms? And tracking El Niño, 12/4/23
- Better Planet News: Drought Unfolding As 'Unprecedented' Planetary-Scale Emergency, 12/1/23
- Drought.gov: NCA5: Drought and Climate Change in 10 Maps, 11/29/23
- Legal Planet: Why Do Small Changes in Global Temperature Matter So Much?, 11/30/23
- NBC news: The vision of El Niño as producer of historic California storms may be outdated, 11/29/23
- Cornell Chronicle: 600 years of tree rings reveal climate risks in California, 11/28/23
- Inside Climate News: In California, Farmers Test a Method to Sink More Water into Underground Stores, 11/29/23
- EPA: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Availability of $30.7 Million in Grants to Support Water Systems in Small and Rural Communities, 12/4/23
- La Jolla Light: La Jolla’s Scripps Oceanography launches partnership with Air Force to study atmospheric rivers, 11/24/23
- PPIC: A Better Way to Promote Urban Water Conservation, 11/28/23
- LiveScience: Big blob of hot water in Pacific may be making El Niño act weirdly, 11/27/23
- Maven's Notebook: JOURNALISTS RESOURCE: El Niño: What it is, how it devastates economies, and where it intersects with climate change, 11/29/23