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Environment
5:09 pm
Fri September 14, 2012

New Study Examines How Delta Ecosystem Once Worked

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Credit Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Study / San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center / California Department of Fish and Game
Top, Consumnes River delta. Bottom, Sycamore Slough (south of Woodbridge Road). Both November 8, 2011. (photos by William G. Miller, Cole~Miller Photography)
Credit Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Study / San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center / California Department of Fish and Game
Meanders of the San Joaquin are seen in this engraving titled “Night scene on the San Joaquin River – Monte Diablo in the distance” (Hutchings 1862).
Credit Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Study / San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center / California Department of Fish and Game
The Delta and Central Valley wetlands as mapped in 1887. The broader wetlands of the Sacramento Valley contrast with the narrower corridor along the San Joaquin River south of the Delta. (Hall 1887)
Credit Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Study / San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center / California Department of Fish and Game
A map depicts the native habitat of the delta as it existed in the early 1800's.
Credit Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Historical Ecology Study / San Francisco Estuary Institute-Aquatic Science Center / California Department of Fish and Game
The Delta of the 1800's consisted of the tidal islands landscape of the central Delta (blue), the flood basins landscape of the north Delta (green), and the distributary rivers landscape of the south Delta (orange).
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A new study released this week by the San Francisco Estuary Institute and the California Department of Fish and Game aims to turn back the clock and learn how the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta used to work - over 150 years ago.

It's part of an effort to allow scientists to better understand how to restore the Delta, by examining how the massive freshwater estuary functioned, before the gold rush and agriculture transformed the region with levees, shipping channels and dredging. 

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10:53 am
Thu August 30, 2012

Rotary Donates Water Filters to Monson Residents

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Many rural Tulare County residents can't drink water from their wells due to nitrate pollution. But now a group of Visalia Rotarians are working to change that, by donating $15,000 worth of reverse-osmosis filters to residents in the small community of Monson.
Although Monson residents each have their own well, none of them can safely drink from them because of high nitrate levels. Guadalupe Perez cannot drink her water or cook with it, she said. Like many residents, she purchases her drinking water in Orosi a few miles away. But that is about to change.
Read More: http://www.visaliatimesdelta.com
Environment
4:09 pm
Tue August 14, 2012

Environmental Groups File Suit Over Water Contamination

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A map shows water wells in the state that indicated the presence of chromium 6, from 2000-2012.
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Two major environmental groups have filed suit against the California State Department of Public Health for what they call a failure by the state to set rules for the safe amount of a toxic chemical in drinking water. Hexavalent chromium, also known as chromium-6, gained widespread attention as the chemical that sickened residents in the film Erin Brockovich. 

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9:40 am
Mon August 13, 2012

Easton Residents Struggle With Polluted Water Wells

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Residents in the Fresno County town of Easton get their water from backyard wells. But many of those wells recently tested above the official limit for certain toxins. It's just the latest case of rural San Joaquin Valley residents struggling to find safe water to drink. Dan Morain of the Sacramento Bee reports.
In the village of Easton, where summer temperatures regularly reach beyond 100 degrees, some lawns are unusually green for this time of year, and people think twice before drinking from the tap. Teresa Ruiz runs an accounting business in a sun-bleached office building on the main street, and her mom, Stella Ruiz, counsels workers about immigration issues, accepting produce gleaned from the fields as partial payment.
Read More: http://www.sacbee.com
Health Warning
9:06 pm
Tue July 31, 2012

Sewage Spill on Kings River Prompts Health Warning

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Public health officials in Tulare County are urging residents to avoid the waters of the Kings River after a sewage spill Monday night in Reedley.

According to officials at around 8:00 p.m. Monday night, a problem at the City of Reedley's Wastewater Treatment Plant on Olsen Avenue resulted in a spill of 63,000 gallons of untreated sewage. At least some of the sewage flowed into the Kings River, which is immediately to the east of the plant. 

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