The News Review:
- Calif. farmers slash planting to cope with drought
- McCully residents without water for second day
- Greenwich zoning board denies water company’s expansion plans
- Clifton Park water warning lingers
- More rain on the way
Calif. farmers slash planting to cope with drought
San Jose Mercury News USA
Farmers in the Central Valley said Thursday they would forego planting thousands of acres of water-thirsty canning tomatoes and already have started slashing acreage for lettuce and melons. As growers in Fresno and Kings counties prepared to sow their dry fields with tomato seeds this week the giant water district that supplies the irrigation for their sprinklers warned them to think again. Computer models of the state’s parched reservoirs and this year’s patchy snowfall showed shortages so extreme that federal officials could slash supplies down to zero managers at the Westlands Water District told their members in an emergency conference call. “We thought it was important to talk to our growers so they can make important planting decisions” said Sarah Woolf a spokeswoman for Westlands the coalition of giant agribusinesses in the state’s fertile interior.
McCully residents without water for second day
KHNL-TV/KHBC/KGG HI
For Tanya Maxillom water is the top of her worries. She's among the nearly 50 households along a stretch of McCully street without it. A major water main burst blocking traffic Tuesday afternoon. Cars were splashing strollers had to be carried. When The Board of Water Supply turned the water back on at 3 am Wednesday it leaked again. The same thing happened again later in the afternoon. “It's the same break that they're repairing but they're having to patch different leaks popping up as they turn the water back on” said Board of Water Supply Spokeswoman Su Shin.
Greenwich zoning board denies water company’s expansion plans
Greenwich Time CT
Logan and his colleagues first appeared before the Planning and Zoning Commission in ctober seeking preliminary approval to replace a 1-million gallon 1920s-era water holding tank at the Putnam Water and Filter Plant 10 Dekraft Road with a new 3. 5-million gallon tank. They also detailed plans for a 120-by-30-foot chemical storage facility both close to the water treatment plant at the south end of Putnam Lake. Aquarion officials have maintained that the current water tank is failing with water leaking in and out through cracks in the concrete. They have also said that the size allows for no emergency water storage. The chemical storage facility would provide a 30-day store of treatment chemicals in the event of a supply-chain interruption Logan said. During several Advertisement.
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Clifton Park water warning lingers
Albany Times Union NY
There is no evidence the town’s water supply was contaminated by the rupture at Moe Road and Sugarbush Drive said Water Authority Administrator Donald Austin but state Health Department regulations require the authority to have two full days of clean bacteria tests before lifting the warning. Austin said the 17-foot-long crack in the 12-inch diameter main was reported just before 6:30 a. and affected almost every authority customer more than 12000 homes and businesses across town. Not affected and not subject to the boil water advisory are customers of the Rexford and Sambrook Edge water districts which get their water from elsewhere Austin said.
More rain on the way
San Jose Mercury News USA
ver the next four days one more inch of rain is expected to fall in the Bay Area as an upper level low makes its way down the coast pushing more rain here said Diane Henderson forecaster for the National Weather Service in Monterey. “The rainfall we’ve received over the last 24 hours and what we’re expecting over the next few days will hopefully be helpful for our water supply” said Susan Siravo a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara Valley Water District. “We did get some rain in December which was good but not enough to make a difference in our water supply. So we’re still really focused on water conservation. “The Sierra snowpack which was 76 percent of normal when measured last month could make a difference when another snow survey is taken Thursday. With half of the water to the Santa Clara Valley Advertisement yld_mgr.