by Lamprey | Mar 14, 2017 | News
Information from Caltrans: This winter’s powerful and near-constant storms took their toll on roads across our District. As a result, many of our area’s rivers flooded – in one case, the Eel River closed Route 211 at Fernbridge. The high, swiftly-moving floodwaters...
by Lamprey | Mar 10, 2017 | Comments, FOER, Land Use
Click here to read our comments on Sonoma County Water Agency’s Fish Habitat Flows and Water Rights Project prepared by Shute, Mihaly, & Weinberger LLP. Learn more about the project here. A summary of our comments: I. The EIR fails to adequately describe the...
by Lamprey | Mar 8, 2017 | News
California fishermen are bracing for the worst salmon season in eight years, one so grim that many will likely sit the season out completely. Years of drought and unfavorably warm ocean conditions that existed when this year’s potential crop of king salmon was young...
by Lamprey | Mar 8, 2017 | News
First part of a series. For nearly 50 years, Oroville Dam has been the linchpin of a sprawling state plumbing system that draws water from wet Northern California to 25 million people and thousands of acres of farmland in the arid south. That changed Feb. 7 when a...
by Lamprey | Mar 6, 2017 | News
My local stream, Putah Creek, looks like a river these days. Water is pouring down the Glory Hole of Lake Berryessa and rushing in muddy turmoil from the ‘dry’ creeks that are its main tributaries. The creek’s deeply incised and leveed channel is containing the...
