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Ken James/California Department of Water ResourcesHeavy rain is still hitting California. A few reservoirs figured out how to capture more for droughtDecades-old rules mean most reservoirs aren't allowed to fill up in the winter. A new approach using weather forecasts is helping some save more water to help with California's drought. -
Bonneville Power Administration/Breaching the Snake River dams is one major way to protect salmon. That’s according to a federal report on salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin that came out today.
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A group of environmental organizations has filed a notice to sue Pacific Gas & Electric over declining fish species in California’s Eel River. -
A Trump-era change to the 1971 Clean Water Act which restricted state and tribal voices in large water projects has been overturned by a federal court.
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Officials in Shasta County are preparing to apply for federal emergency management funds to repair a dam from which they can no longer release water, that…
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Dam removal continues to generate controversy in our region. Proponents see restored ecosystems and fish runs.Opponents see diminished irrigation water…
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The list of dams now removed from the Rogue River and its tributaries is getting longer: Gold Ray, Savage Rapids, Bear Creek, Wimer... and that's just a…
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All eyes have been on the Oroville Dam of late, with its damaged spillway leading to evacuation orders for thousands of people. The problem there is a…
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The Rogue River is a very different stream from just a decade ago. The removal of Savage Rapids, Gold Hill, and Gold Ray Dams from the river means it now…
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JeffX 7/7 @ 8:30: The efforts to improve living conditions for fish tend to focus on big dams, like the four proposed for removal on the Klamath River.…
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When the talk turns to removing dams from streams, the attention turns to the Klamath River. But while the long process of (maybe) removing four large…
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Land that was once meant to be underwater is now available for recreation by us land-based creatures.Elk Creek Dam north of Medford was never finished; it…
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It's not just the dams on the Klamath River that are the subject of scrutiny in Northern California.The Karuk Tribe and an environmental group filed suit…
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Subjects ranging from wildfire management to the fate of bats will be on the table at Bio Conf this weekend at Humboldt State University. If the nickname…
