The News Review:

- Public role in water issues will be put to the test
- Proposed restrictions irk state water officials
- Low water bares Wohlford landmarks at trout opener

Public role in water issues will be put to the test
Wisconsin State Journal WI 
com The first major test of the Madison Water Utility's fledgling public participation plan will come this week as the utility hosts a meeting on thorny water supply issues in the city's Southeast neighborhoods including an aging well and possible contamination at the site of a proposed new well. A public meeting is scheduled for Wednesday to discuss the fate of Well No. 9 and the other water supply problems in the area near Femrite Drive and Interstate 39-90. The meeting is the first scheduled as part of a new process aimed at increasing public input on water projects. “We're going to be watching this closely” said Jon Standridge president of the Madison Water Board which oversees the utility. “I'm very interested in improving how we talk to the public. ” The new participation plan is one of many changes in the wake of controversies that rocked the utility over the past few years and resulted last year in the departure of former general manager David Denig-Chakroff and the hiring of his replacement Tom Heikkinen.
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Proposed restrictions irk state water officials
San Jose Mercury News  USA 
His letter said those limits would likely be exceeded often. A spokeswoman for the department’s customers said the permit would not lead to a crisis immediately but could have a severe effect in the next year or so. “We’re preparing for the worst case that this biological opinion will keep us in a severely restricted water supply situation” said Laura King Moon assistant general manager of the State Water Contractors. “The noose is ever tightening. “An environmentalist had little sympathy for the department which he said was reaping what it sowed. “The excessive Delta pumping caused the problem” said Barry Nelson a water policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council. “It also led to windfall profits at public expense.

Low water bares Wohlford landmarks at trout opener
San Diego Union Tribune CA 
That's when innovative Superintendent Jim Burns of the Escondido Mutual Water Co. became the first lake manager to stock put-and-take rainbow trout in a Southern California fishery. Low water – some say the lowest lake level in more than 30 years – has all that structure and more exposed on the vast Wohlford shoreline and in the lake. “I hit a rock the other day in the middle of the lake while I was out on the patrol boat” said Superintendent Jay Cowan who has been at Wohlford for more than 30 years 35 in all with the city of Escondido. “It was embarrassing because I'm supposed to know where every rock in this lake is.