Monday, August
21 ,
2006
Quote of the Day: All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.William Faulkner
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Princess Margaret,
Wilt Chamberlain,
On this Day in
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— Water
Supply
Stage set for IID water talks (IV Press, 8/20) "A
critical water issue will soon take center stage as the
Imperial Irrigation District faces the question of how to
distribute the precious resource in years where the Valley’s
agricultural thirst outpaces the supply.
Barona pipeline a 'very long-term' prospect The
wells aren't as dry as a few years ago, but Frances
Gesiakowski and her neighbors near the Barona Indian
Reservation say they are squeezing every drop.
Martinez looks to enhance water supply When
the firefighters saw they couldn't depend on the town's
water main, they started a bucket brigade carrying water
from neighboring wells. By the time the water main could
deliver a steady stream of water, the Lawless block was
gone, but the rest of the business district escaped. "
Proposed Cal Am solutions just aren't feasible (Monterey Herald, 8/20)
COMMENTARY
by Tom Moore, director, Marina Coast Water District: "Many
of Madeleine Clark's proposed alternatives to California
American Water's Coastal Water Project are either
presumptuous or naive. Most of the water sources she
mentioned in her recent commentary belong to others. Four of
her proposed alternatives to Cal Am's proposed desalination
plans are simply illegal.
Cal Am's aquifer EIR to be considered (Monterey Herald, 8/19) "Certification
of a final environmental impact report for California
American Water's aquifer storage and recovery project, which
would store excess winter and spring flows in the Carmel
River for injection into the Seaside Water Basin, will be
considered by the Monterey Peninsula Water Management
District at its meeting Monday. "
White pine county: Crossing
waterline There
is less than a month to go before a decisive state hearing
on plans to pipe water to Las Vegas from White Pine County,
and Southern Nevada Water Authority General Manager Pat
Mulroy says she is finished being subtle. LV's
growth will stop in 2013 without water Las
Vegas has run out of options for water and will see growth
pinched off in seven to 10 years unless plans are approved
to pump ground water south from rural White Pine County, a
water agency official said Tuesday. "
Arizona needs to secure water for the future Where
are we today? With the present supplies - Central Arizona
Project, the Salt River Project, allowable groundwater
pumps, strong conservation progress and total water reuse -
the Phoenix metro area could sustain a population of
approximately 10 million. "
Serrano plans to replace
water lines (OC Register, 8/17) Thanks
to Nick Arhontes for this one: "Residents
may soon see some streets in Villa Park and parts of east Orange
dug up as the Serrano Water District applies a master
plan to replace several thousand feet of water supply lines. "
— Water
Quality
Desal: San Onofre contamination
considered (NC Times, 8/20) "Officials
from the county's main water supplier said last week that it
was too soon to tell how the discovery of radioactive
groundwater at the San Onofre nuclear power plant would
affect their thinking about building a plant there to turn
seawater into drinking water. "
Supes: Mule Creek Prison polluting groundwater The
state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation wants to
add 400 more inmates to its prison at Mule Creek State
Prison in Ione, but the ones who are already there generate
so much wastewater that the prison is contaminating the
area's groundwater. "
USGS gives private-well quality findings USGS
scientists evaluated a range of inorganic and organic
contaminants in domestic wells from every state and Puerto
Rico. "
Arsenic, nitrates, atrazine plague
private wells (WaterWeek, 8/19) "Water
quality monitoring data from thousands of domestic wells
across the United States indicate that the top contaminants
found include three organic pesticides, with arsenic and
nitrate topping the list of contaminants exceeding their
federal drinking water standards.
San Clemente shuts well to confirm no danger The
city's only operating municipal well has been closed until
test results can confirm it is untainted by a radioactive
leak at San Onofre, officials said Friday. "
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