A critic of three Westlands Solar Park projects in Kings County ended up withdrawing an appeal from the Board of Supervisors recently that had claimed Westlands would not certify they
Michael Kiparsky
As we careen deeper into drought, California will face increasing impacts to urban and agricultural economies, rivers and forests, and wildlife.
In response, government agencies will need to determine how to allocate water among competing needs. Water users will scramble to buy and sell water â if they can â or reduce their use. But the current lack of information hobbles the ability to make difficult decisions about water management. For California to cope with persistent shortages, water rights data need to be accessible to decision-makers and the public.
Most residents assume that because their home water use is metered we would understand water use in the state as a whole, and that water management is a routine matter. This could hardly be further from the truth.
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Focus The San Mateo Daily Journal – February 19
Nearly 60 Bay Area political leaders and organizations last Tuesday asked the Biden administration to protect Redwood City’s salt ponds, owned by Cargill, Inc., from future development by withdrawing a Trump era appeal of a court ruling deeming them federally protected “waters of the United States.” On October 5, 2020, Judge William Alsup, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ruled that the 1,400 acres fell under the protection of the federal Clean Water Act, overturning a 2019 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision finding the salt ponds exempt from the Act as “fast lands.” Cargill, and its developer partner, DMB Pacific Ventures, which hope to develop the property, intend to pursue an appeal of Judge Alsup’s ruling regardless of whether EPA’s appeal moves forward.
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