Bureau of Reclamation – California Globe

Ringside: Congress Comes to Santa Nella to Talk About Water

September 19, 2024 6:42 amSeptember 19, 2024 6:42 am

The Great Valley of California, one of “the more notable structural depressions in the world,” covers an area of 20,000 square miles. More than half of it, about 6.7 million acres, or over 10,000 square miles, is irrigated farmland. If you...

Did Fish and Game Officials Just Cause 850,000 Juvenile Salmon to Die?

March 3, 2024 9:53 amMarch 3, 2024 2:42 pm

The removal of dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was sold to Californians as necessary to save salmon – specifically, “to restore habitat for endangered fish,” the Globe reported. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife...

Is California’s Klamath River Dam Removal a Ghoulish Experiment?

February 29, 2024 10:00 amMarch 2, 2024 7:40 am

This is the third article in a series about the Klamath Dam Removal project in Siskiyou County: This is the First; This is the second. In 2018, plans were released to destroy the Klamath River dam system by American Rivers,...

Department of Interior To Give $250 Million In Funding For Salton Sea Restoration Efforts

November 29, 2022 12:28 pm

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced on Monday that they will provide $250 million in funding to help reduce health risks and increase aquatic restoration efforts at the Salton Sea in Southern California. Since being formed over 100 years ago,...

Fresno County Superior Court Judge Rejects Federal Water Deal For Second Time

October 29, 2021 2:18 amOctober 28, 2021 9:51 pm

A federal deal that would have given agricultural water contractor Westlands Water District access to Bureau of Reclamation water resources to help reinvigorate farms in the Central Valley was rejected by the Fresno County Superior Court on Wednesday, possibly paving...

Gov. Newsom Urges Billionaire Warren Buffett To Back Klamath Dam Removal

August 1, 2020 9:28 am

Earlier this week, Governor Gavin Newsom wrote directly to billionaire investor Warren Buffett in an attempt to gain his support for removing four dams in Northern California that Buffet’s company owns. The possible destruction of the Klamath dam system in...

Federal Government Endangered Species Act Revisions Means More Water to Central Valley Growers

October 28, 2019 3:22 pmOctober 29, 2019 6:50 am

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently updated the Endangered Species Act, which will result in bringing much needed water to agriculture and growers in California’s Central Valley. Under President Donald Trump’s administration, radical Environmental Protection Act regulations have been...