Reservoir Storage & Operations:

Water supply information provided by Sonoma Water (more info here).

Lake_Pillsbury_Storage_12-2-23.pdfLake_Sonoma_Storage_12-4-23.pdfLake_Mendocino_Storage_12-4-23.pdf2023, 12-4 PGE Variance November Storage Report.pdf

 

Trans Basin Diversion Update

North Coast Journal: PG&E Moves Forward with Eel River Dam Removal, Utility's plans have demolition starting as soon as 2028, 11/23/23

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• NBC news: The vision of El Niño as producer of historic California storms may be outdated, 11/29/23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