Our team’s ongoing work in assessing flood risk to California state properties presented an opportunity to explore interesting differences between flood models. In this work, we used data from the Department of General Services (DGS) to analyze this flood risk. This inventory includes over 24,000...
The robust water supply of the 20th century is no longer reliable. California recently agreed tocut water imports from the Colorado River by 10%not out of altruism, but because we must. The Department of Water Resources projects that the Sierra snowpack — a major source of water for farms ...
After a string of mountain blizzards, snowpack measured at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada stands at more than 200% of its average for this date, according to the first measurement of the season by California's Department of Water Resources (DWR). The Sierra Nevada supplies almost ...
The report, which was released Tuesday, was funded by the state's Department of Food and Agriculture, as well as the California Department of Water Resources. Dry conditions in California are unlikely to go away. Researchers expect next year to be another drought year for California, even if ...
There’s about 11 inches worth of water sitting in snow in the Sierra Nevada along California’s eastern edge, according to the state Department of Water Resources. It’s the lowest reading since the depth of the last drought seven years ago, when California ended winter with just 5% of th...
Karla Nemeth, director of the state Department of Water Resources, said returning to the earlier Trump rules “has the potential to harm Central Valley farms and Southern California communities that depend upon water delivered from the Delta, and it will do nothing to improve current water supplies...
More than 1,200 wells have run dry this year statewide, a nearly 50% increase over the same period last year, according to the California Department of Water Resources. By contrast, fewer than 100 dry wells were reported annually in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The groundwater crisis is most...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency notified the California Department of Water Resources on March 7 that only $333 million of the $639 million the state requested for repairs would be reimbursed. FEMA argued preexisting structural issues with the upper spillway should have been addressed before...
Winter storms in December and February did help fill major state reservoirs. But most Northern California reservoirs remain below historical average levels for this time of year, according to the California Department of Water Resources. The drought’s reach has gripped DeWit and other farmers, and...
and desalination plants has left the state increasingly vulnerable to drought, while tone deaf environmental requirements and miscalculations by the Department of Water Resources and the State Water Resources Control Board have caused the state tolose hundreds of billions of gallons of water. ...