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The Port of Stockton could see shipments of radioactive waste if the proposed nuclear power plant west of Fresno is built. STOCKTON RECORD  
Record  

Power play

Nuclear waste a possibility for Port of Stockton

Nuclear waste could be shipped through Stockton if a group of Fresno-area businessmen succeeds in its plan to build the state's first nuclear plant in more than two decades. Don't expect to see cooling towers rise above the farms west of Fresno anytime soon, though. (Stockton Record)
The Los Angeles Aqueduct, which carries water from the Sierra Nevada. Snowpack measurements there, along with cooler Pacific waters, may presage a third consecutive year of drought. DAVID McNEW/Getty Images  
NYTimes  

Strike three?

La Niña's return signals another drought year ahead

California, just finished with its second consecutive year of drought, might well be facing a third. If so, state authorities may be forced to impose water rationing on farmers, homes and businesses. (New York Times)
ALSO:
• La Niña is here — get ready for another dry year
• Fears of more Valley drought grow

Richard Cedeno pays his water bill at the Cabazon Water District, which operates out of a converted fruit stand on Main Street. The building is a community gathering place. IRFAN KHAN/Los Angeles Times  
LATimes  

Change on tap

Desert town's lone water man on the go to maintain flow

For more than half a century, the Cabazon Water District has persevered on a shoestring budget, managing by sheer grit to provide water to this hardscrabble, unincorporated community of 2,300 and a few life-sized dinosaurs near Palm Springs. But a change is coming, one that will likely signal the end of an era. (Los Angeles Times)

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— Thomas Edison

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JAMES DARBIN
Marina Coast Water District

A good 50 years
MCWD recently tore down this 250,000-gallon elevated welded steel tank, built in 1958 on the former Fort Ord Army Base. This tank has been replaced by  a hydro-pneumatic station, part of an $8.5 million project that includes removal of a 1 MG concrete reservoir and replacement with a 2 MG welded steel tank.
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On this Day in 1944
During the Battle of the Bulge, Germany demanded the surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium; Brigadier Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe reportedly replied: "Nuts!"

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