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- Fish Polluted with Human Drugs
- Double Ditch Flooding
- Water works: Even in Seattle rainfall alone won’t keep your car …
- ND asking that Garrison Dam resume water releases
- Plan to restore San Joaquin River approved
- Latest North Dakota news sports business and entertainment …
- Water Resource Board moves on aquifer recharge
Fish Polluted with Human Drugs
Newsinferno.com
In the first study of its kind fish studied near water treatment plants have tested positive for a variety of human medications and other contaminants the Associated Press (AP) is reporting. The testing was conducted near wastewater treatment plants around five cities and the findings have prompted the U.
Double Ditch Flooding
KFYR-TV
The Burleigh County Sheriff`s ffice even confirmed the information before realizing 20 minutes later the report was false. The inaccurate information put homeowners south of Double Ditch in a panic to save their belongings and their homes. Just north of Bismarck sheets of ice are still stuck in the Missouri. And behind them loads and loads of water.
Water works: Even in Seattle rainfall alone won’t keep your car …
Seattle Times
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ND asking that Garrison Dam resume water releases
Reiten Television KXMB Bismarck
In a statement late Thursday North Dakota’s Department ofEmergency Services says it’s asking the Corps of Engineers to startreleasing 3000 cubic feet per second of water from the dam. The statement says the water releases aren’t expected to havemuch effect on river ice jams in the Bismarck area. The water shut-off has caused problems for other users north ofBismarck. The river has dropped so low that the city of Washburn has lostits water supply. And the Stanton and Leland lds electric powerplants have shut down because of a lack of water. (Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Plan to restore San Joaquin River approved
San Francisco Chronicle
But when it became clear that a federal judge overseeing the lawsuit could enact severe water cutbacks the farmers came to the table. “Having a federal court serve as a water master on our river system was disconcerting to our folks” said Ron Jacobsma general manager of the Friant Water Users Authority which serves the 15000 farms in the region. “The water supply certainty money certainty and opportunity to get additional water drove our folks to stay on board with the settlement. f the $400 million to be doled out over the next decade about $200 million will come from California with the rest coming from the federal government and special fees paid by the area’s water districts. The funds will pay for environmental studies on increasing river flows (large-scale releases are to begin in 2014) bolstering levees along the river fixing damaged canals and recharging underground aquifers. The plans target a section of San Joaquin River between Friant Dam and where the Merced River merges with it. Peter Moyle a nationally known UC Davis professor of conservation biology acknowledged the challenges in replenishing a river that some have compared to an agricultural drainage ditch.
Latest North Dakota news sports business and entertainment …
KXMC
Now the state Department of Emergency Services wants the Corpsof Engineers to start releasing 3000 cubic feet per second ofwater from the dam. The agency says the water isn’t expected to have much effect onriver ice jams in the Bismarck area. The water shut-off has caused problems for other users north ofBismarck. The city of Washburn has lost its water supply. Washburn city director Milissa Price says the shutoff of theGarrison dam has caused the river to drop below the city’s twoMissouri River water intakes. She says the city only has about a day’s reserve of water storedin its water towers. And the Stanton and Leland lds electric power plants have shutdown because of a lack of water.
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Water Resource Board moves on aquifer recharge
Idaho Business Review
The board signed the agreements during its regularly scheduled meeting last week in Boise in an effort to continue to conduct and promote aquifer recharge to improve aquifer conditions and reduce water conflicts the Idaho Department of Water Resources said in a release. Water supply issues can impact agricultural producers municipalities residential developers homeowners and business owners. The Idaho Water Resource Board seeks to recharge between 30000 and 40000 acre feet of water to the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer of south central Idaho this year as one of the steps recommended in the Comprehensive Aquifer Management Plan – which recently was presented to the Idaho Legislature. The amount of water recharged is expected to significantly increase during the next few years as outlined in the aquifer plan to an average annual target of 100000 acre feet by 2019 the department said. Also at the meeting the board reviewed an initial draft of the Idaho State Water Plan. After the board approves a draft of the plan it will be presented for public comment and review at a series of meetings.