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Meeting Set For Red Willow Dam Problems
Published February 9, 2010, 5:25 am, WOWT Omaha
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is preparing for a public meeting later this month to update people about problems at Red Willow Dam.
BPA expects $6M revenue loss from dry weather
Published February 9, 2010, 4:56 am, INO News
(AP:PORTLAND, Ore.) The winter forecast for the Bonneville Power Administration is for light snow and possibly even lighter revenue.
BPA expects $6M revenue loss from dry weather
Published February 9, 2010, 4:46 am, AP via Yahoo! Finance
The winter forecast for the Bonneville Power Administration is for light snow and possibly even lighter revenue. The federal power marketing agency on Monday cut its revenue forecast for the fiscal year by about $240 million -- from nearly $232 million in net revenue by the end of the year to a $6 million loss.
Water users hope for slow melt
Published February 9, 2010, 3:26 am, Montrose Daily Press
MONTROSE — Growers and other area water users are hedging their bets on a good spring — defined, in part, as a slow-melting snowpack.
Red River Basin Commission focuses on water storage
Published February 9, 2010, 1:44 am, The Fargo Forum
GRAND FORKS – How much is water is 885,000 acre feet? That’s been the question since a Red River Basin Commission study was released last month. By: Kevin Bonham, Forum Communications Co.
Pumps blast water to west Valley farmers
Published February 8, 2010, 10:55 pm, The Fresno Bee
Federal officials are pumping an extra billion gallons of river water daily into San Luis Reservoir for west Valley farmers, thanks to a federal judge's order and a string of winter storms.
East Mojave groundwater basin might hold more than Lake Mead, geologists say
Published February 8, 2010, 10:54 pm, The Press-Enterprise
More water could exist below privately owned valleys in the eastern Mojave Desert than in all of Lake Mead, the nation's largest reservoir, according to a geological study released Monday by the company that hopes to tap the vast supply.
Storage vs. conservation
Published February 8, 2010, 10:29 pm, The Hanford Sentinel
If there's one issue that virtually everybody agrees on in Sacramento, it's that California has water problems. Three years of drought, endangered species restrictions on pumping, a growing population, huge areas of the state without natural water supplies, an outdated delivery system -- the list of liquid challenges for the Golden State goes on and on.
Inland water agencies are serious about capturing storm runoff
Published February 8, 2010, 9:56 pm, The Press-Enterprise
Long before Southern California's water supplies dwindled, storm runoff was something to be disposed of quickly by sending it down concrete channels to the ocean.
BPA expects $6M revenue loss from dry weather
Published February 8, 2010, 4:46 pm, KOMO Seattle
Bonneville says El Nino ocean warming likely will result in a dry winter and light mountain snowpack that will reduce spring runoff to feed the rivers that power Northwest hydroelectric dams.
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