Clearlake Oaks County Water District’s five-year rate schedule takes a home’s combined water and sewer base bill from $129.11 to $207.63 a month — while a $36 million state grant awaits a signed agreement.
Category: Water
Clearlake weighs a Clear Lake pact that gained a seventh tribe
The Clearlake City Council takes up the Clear Lake watershed co-management agreement Thursday. The version in front of it lists 23 governments, one more than Lake County supervisors approved in July. Koi Nation is the addition.
Upper Lake wells still pumping past a 2022 state deadline
State regulators gave the Meadow Pointe water system five years to get off gasoline-contaminated wells. The deadline passed in December 2022. Since 2017, $1.3 million has gone to studies and nothing to construction.
A fire hydrant struck by a bus sprays water over Main Street in St. Helena. The city released the photo with its July 19 advisory on the resulting discolored water. (Courtesy City of St. Helena)
Grand jury flagged the pipes in St. Helena. Then a bus hit a hydrant
A Napa County civil grand jury said in June that decades of sediment in the St. Helena water mains had never been assessed and had no repair plan. Twenty-four days later, a bus hit a hydrant.
The Napa-Sonoma Marshes near American Canyon, on the low-lying Napa County edge of San Pablo Bay. Photo: Melissa McMasters via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
San Pablo Bay floods tonight, and no storm is behind it
A minor coastal flood advisory runs through Thursday. The National Weather Service says 3 to 6 inches of tonight’s high tide is sea level rise — and the North Bay’s water peaks nearly two hours after San Francisco’s.
Golden hills of northern California reflected in the still water of the Nicasio Reservoir in West Marin County.
Sonoma keeps saying yes to Marin’s Russian River pipeline
Sonoma County’s supervisors approved a 15-year water contract with Marin on the consent calendar, with no discussion. The number that mattered — a near-doubling of Marin’s winter draw on the Russian River — was not in the staff report they read.
Who is going to watch the Russian River?
Brenda Adelman spent 45 years watching the Russian River’s wastewater permits. Her group folded this spring, and more than 100 boxes of river history need a home. She’s asking for archiving help.
St. Helena: where the town’s water comes from
St. Helena’s water runs from an 1878 earthen dam built by Chinese laborers in York Canyon to today’s Bell Canyon reservoir — a 150-year story of dams, droughts, lawsuits and the wine families who started it.
Cloverdale’s own water plan says the city doesn’t need the Eel River dams its vice mayor is fighting to save
Cloverdale’s vice mayor is lobbying Washington to save the Eel River dams. The city’s own water plan says Cloverdale doesn’t need them.