Announcements

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• State Water Board releases draft water quality certification and draft initial study/negative declaration for public review and comment for the Phoenix Hydroelectric Project - Comments are due by July 29, 2022 (06/27/2022)
• Statement – Preliminary May 2022 Urban Water Use Data (06/28/2022)
• Worsening conditions prompt readoption of drought emergency regulation for Scott and Shasta Rivers (06/21/2022)
• New statewide emergency water conservation regulation now in effect (06/14/2022)
• Orange County developer fined record $6.6 million for unauthorized stormwater discharges (06/08/2022)
• State Water Board approves Voluntary Water Sharing Agreement in Russian River Watershed (06/07/2022)
• State Water Board adopts emergency water conservation regulation - Regulation to boost water savings starting in June (05/24/2022)
• Vineyard developers face $3.75 million fine for harming streams, wetlands in Sonoma County (05/24/2022)
• State Water Board releases draft emergency water conservation regulation - Regulations would boost water savings starting in June (05/13/2022)
• Continuing drought prompts readoption of emergency curtailment regulation in Russian River - State Water Board revises and renews existing regulation (05/10/2022)
• California holds Boeing accountable for cleanup at toxic Santa Susana Field Laboratory
  In a major development to strengthen the cleanup of contamination at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in southeastern Ventura County, the California Environmental Protection Agency announced a comprehensive framework that establishes strict cleanup protocols and timelines for The Boeing Co. Together, the agreements ensure that: (1) Boeing will clean up chemical contamination in its areas of responsibility to a health protective cleanup standard that could be as stringent as a “Resident with Garden” standard that has long been advocated for by members of the surrounding community; (2) Boeing will clean up radionuclides in soil in its areas of responsibility to levels that would exist locally without industrial activity; and (3) Following the cleanup, stormwater runoff from the Boeing areas will not be polluted. Boeing’s total cleanup costs are expected to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars, including cleanup costs that have already been expended.   Read the press release. (05/09/2022)
• As drought strains supply, report describes challenges to providing safe drinking water (5/6/2022)