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News
Round-Up
FEDS
DISH UP SUPPLY PIE: Club Fed - alias EPA, U.S. Fish & Wildlife,
BurRec and the National Marine Fisheries Service - announced ... »Read More
Inside
the Agencies
HONING
IN ON HOT SPOTS: Environmentalists coined the term toxic hot spot
in the 1980s, but the spots had no hard and fast definition until
this fall ... »Read More
Plugging
the Gaps
A
gap in the science is an invitation to question any management decision
proposed to enhance the health of the Bay-Delta ecosystem ... »Read More
Polymer
Panacea?
Irrigation
water flowing off a farmfield into a canal or river can be pretty
murky stuff. But researchers in Stanislaus County are testing ... »Read More
Smelt
Ups and Downs
It
should have been a good year for both Delta and longfin smelt, what
with increased freshwater inflows, an ideal entrapment zone ... »Read More
Apartments
Win Runoff Rebate
Getting
landlords and tenants of large apartment complexes to stop their storm
drain pollution can be difficult, so the city of Richmond ... »Read More
Water
Bank Gets Onceover
When
Governor Pete Wilson launched a water bank in 1991, many feared it
would split farming communities, steal from local economies ... »Read More
Selenium
Settlement
Three
oil companies didn't meet the deadline for cutting their selenium
discharges to the Bay by 50 percent but state regulators ... »Read More
Wetlands
Retake Bases
The
environment may emerge as a surprise victor as conversion plans currently
on the table for three different military sites call for wetlands
... »Read More
Costing
Out Rehandling
Using
sediments scooped off the Bay bottom to cover landfills, build roads
or grade golf courses is more than a matter of dredge, haul and dump
... »Read More
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