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Cover Story
Bull-Dogging Diazinon
When Val Connor tested the rain that had collected in pie pans she'd scattered around the Central Valley last January, she found enough diazinon to kill an aquatic organism. Connor's agency, the Central Valley Regional Board, has been tracking the pervasiveness of this widely used farm and garden pesticide in rivers and runoff for several years ... »Read More

In This Issue

News Round-Up
AN ANGLER DROPPED A FOOT-AND-A-HALF-LONG SILVERY FISH on the desk of Cal Fish & Game's Jim Starr in late October ... »Read More

How I See It - John Wodraska, MWD
"MWD is spending $20 million a year to encourage water conservation in Southern California. We've found there are six factors we need to consider ... »Read More

Follow-up Flashes
In this special issue dedicated to follow-up, we tracked down the protaganists of every story printed in ESTUARY over the past two years ... »Read More

In the Cities
SETBACK SCORES BIG-TIME: Environmentalists shot for the setback moon and got it in May 1994 ... »Read More

In the Field & Lab
HERBICIDE TESTED ON SLOUGH WEED: Scientists conducting test sprays of the herbicide Komeen on the exotic aquatic weed Egeria densa ... »Read More

In the Valley
SUPPLY-SIDE SELENIUM: A plan to separate selenium-tainted drainage water from wetland refuge supplies has been creeping ahead ... »Read More

On the River
SALMON SONG & DANCE: The tactic that worked in legend for the Pied Piper of Hamlin and seems to save some baby salmon doesn't seem to hurt adult fish either ... »Read More

On the Marsh
HAYWARD MANEUVERS: Curbing flows through a 145-acre wastewater treatment marsh may have temporarily exacerbated rather than reduced ammonia ... »Read More

At the Tap
TAP WATER TIGHTROPE: EPA inched another few steps down the tap water treatment tightrope this year in an effort to negotiate some kind of balance ... »Read More

In Port
CHEMICALLY CHALLENGED MUD: The "contaminated" label brings such a stigma to Bay mud dredged up from the region's waterways that managers recently felt compelled ... »Read More

On Paper
BDOC WRAPS UP TECHNICAL WORK: The Bay Delta Oversight Council's technical experts got their shopping list of ideas for making the Bay-Delta more habitable ... »Read More


 
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