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Monthly Archives: July 2008
If you live in the Delta…
… you’d better check your mailbox.
Colleague Matt Weiser at the Sac Bee reports this morning that state water officials will send letters to about 1,000 property owners letting them know that surveyors may need access to their land to begin planning for a peripheral canal.
Of course, the governor’s Delta Vision process has yet to officially decide [...]
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Serious downer
I’m still digesting the new report recommending a peripheral canal to skirt water around the Delta — we’ll have a follow-up story in the next couple of weeks – but one prediction had me falling out of my chair:
No matter what happens, “Some species in the Delta are likely to be sustained only with [...]
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A bright idea?
CFLs, or compact fluorescent bulbs, are cool looking and they save energy. The problem, as we’ve reported before, is getting rid of them, since they contain a small amount of mercury.
Waste Management allows you to buy a recycling kit which will hold up to 15 10-watt CFLs. You fill it up with bulbs, seal and ship [...]
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Peripheral canal for dummies
KQED radio in San Francisco dedicated an hour on Monday to discussing the peripheral canal.
It’s a good introduction to an excruciatingly complex topic.
Check it out here.
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I’m a talking head
Check out this video about the Delta and Coastal Cleanup Day. It was produced by high school students from the Center for Land-Based Learning SLEWS program, including local filmmaker Sophoan Sorn.
(I admit some self-interest in this; yours truly is interviewed about two minutes into the clip.)
This was shown, incidentally, at the inaugural San Joaquin Film Festival [...]
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Wanger Pt II
Judge Wanger has ruled in the salmon case. And true to his style, it’s happened late on a Friday afternoon.
Here’s AP’s early take:
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that California’s water systems threaten to push native salmon into extinction, but stopped short of ordering any immediate water cutbacks farmers said could cost [...]
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Peripheral canal the best choice?
The same group of scientists who came out with a report last year saying that the Delta is not sustainable in its current form released a sequal this morning, saying that a peripheral canal is the best solution.
Sure, it’s not the best choice for fish alone, the Public Policy Institute of California says. But money [...]
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Deltas of a different kind
If you link to this blog from one of my recent stories, you might be a bit confused.
This guy writes a lot about Delta College, you might say. Why is this blog about the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, water, air pollution and sustainability?
I’ve been the natural resources reporter at the Record for a couple of years [...]
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Are you sitting down?
College students are more likely to go binge drinking if they have easy access to cheap alcohol, according to a new Harvard University study.
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