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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">The California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>'s latest estimate of the Russian River's crest \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">at Guerneville\u003c/a> says the waterway will peak at about 5½ feet over flood stage. That's down 2 feet from the forecast last night for a 39.8-foot crest, which would have significantly widened the inundated area. The CNRFC's next forecast is due out at 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center has updated its forecast for flooding on the Russian River at Guerneville -- and it's not good news for communities along the waterway's lower reaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new forecast, released after 9 p.m., estimates the river will rise to 39.8 feet by Wednesday evening, then recede to below flood level Thursday afternoon. The new forecast is 7.8 feet above flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Sonoma County issued an evacuation advisory based on a flood level of 38.3 feet and estimated about 100 structures would be affected, on top of the 550 that have already been flooded. We don't have a figure yet on how many additional homes and businesses could be in the water as the flood approaches 40 feet. Here's a snippet from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">the general description\u003c/a> of flood impacts from the river forecast center:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>39.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Significant flooding is expected to occur along the lower portions of the Russian River. River Road, along with a few houses, will flood at the town of Hacienda. Armstrong Woods Road, 4th Street, and Mill Street are forecast to flood. The village of Northwood Grove and Monte Rio School are expected to become inundated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>40.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Major flooding is expected along the Russian River. Many roads in Guerneville, Monte Rio, Rio Nido, and Hacienda will be flooded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Downpours throughout the Bay Area prompted a series of flash flood warnings and ongoing worries about flooding along the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, flood warnings or flash flood warnings were in force through Wednesday morning for dozens of communities in every Bay Area county as prolonged heavy rain fell on terrain already saturated by storms last week and over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings as creeks rose rapidly in parts of Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Alameda, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Early Tuesday evening, flood sirens warned residents in flood-prone areas of the Marin communities of Fairfax, San Anselmo and Ross to move to higher ground as local creeks reached capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the main body of Tuesday's storm passed to the east Tuesday evening -- yes, it really looks like the pounding is over for the time being -- Sonoma County still appears to have suffered the most severe impacts of the deluge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county lists \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\">45 road closures\u003c/a> due to flooding, slides and downed trees or power lines. Large swaths of agricultural land are under water. County officials say that at least 550 homes and businesses near the Russian River near Guerneville have been flooded -- a number expected to grow by at least 100 as the river reaches a crest forecast to be 6 feet over flood stage on Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scattered showers are expected overnight into Wednesday, followed by a weaker storm Thursday that could still drop another 1 to 2 inches at the Bay Area's wettest locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some precipitation highlights for the 24 hours ending at 9 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venado (Sonoma County): \u003c/strong>6.40 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kentfield (Marin County):\u003c/strong> 6.11\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Boulder Creek (Santa Cruz Mountains):\u003c/strong> 5.24 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>St. Mary's College (Moraga):\u003c/strong> 5.02 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills):\u003c/strong> 3.30 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban totals include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa:\u003c/strong> 2.92 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Rafael:\u003c/strong> 3.86 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 1.96 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Downtown San Francisco:\u003c/strong> 1.21 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland International Airport:\u003c/strong> 1.53 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Jose International Airport:\u003c/strong> .60 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Another day, another relentless rainy torrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our third major storm of 2017, fueled once more by subtropical moisture, has dumped heavy rain across most of the Bay Area. Occasionally heavy precipitation is expected to continue late into the evening before breaking up into scattered showers Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major concern in the region is flooding, and much of the attention is focused in the North Bay, especially the lower Russian River in Sonoma County. During the course of the day, the National Weather Service issued flood and flash flood warnings for large swaths of the county, including areas near Healdsburg, Geyserville, Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, Petaluma and the town of Sonoma. On the other end of the Bay Area, the service issued a flash flood warning for parts of Los Gatos as Lexington Reservoir reached capacity and sent water into Los Gatos Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In western Sonoma County, the Russian River crested at 3 feet above flood stage in Guerneville on Monday, flooding hundreds of homes and businesses in the resort town and nearby communities. After the river receded to just above flood stage today, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center says\u003c/a> the Russian is expected to rise to about 6½ over flood stage by Wednesday evening, inundating even more property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11263564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\" alt=\"California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville.\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville. \u003ccite>(CNRFC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a brief break from the major weekend storm, heavy rain resumed across the watershed late Monday and continued without respite Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among locations widely watched for gauging the intensity of rainfall that will wind up as runoff cascading into the Russian River are Venado, in the hills west of Healdsburg, and Cazadero, in the hills north of the river near the community of Duncans Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official California \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=VEN\">Department of Water Resources gauge\u003c/a> at Venado recorded 2.56 inches of rain in the 12 hours ending at noon. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KCACAZAD12#history\" target=\"_blank\">private Cazadero weather station\u003c/a> reported 3.34 inches of rain during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the month so far, Venado has recorded about 24 inches of rain for a total of 69.48 inches since Oct. 1, the start of California's official water year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unofficially -- meaning from our own reading of Department of Water Resources and National Weather Service numbers -- that ranks Venado as No. 3 on the list of rainiest places in the state so far this water year. No. 1 appears to be Four Trees, a place in the mountains of Plumas County, which had gotten 73.52 inches as of midnight Monday; No. 2 is the Mattole River hamlet of Honeydew, in western Humboldt County, with 70.24\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">The California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>'s latest estimate of the Russian River's crest \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">at Guerneville\u003c/a> says the waterway will peak at about 5½ feet over flood stage. That's down 2 feet from the forecast last night for a 39.8-foot crest, which would have significantly widened the inundated area. The CNRFC's next forecast is due out at 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center has updated its forecast for flooding on the Russian River at Guerneville -- and it's not good news for communities along the waterway's lower reaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new forecast, released after 9 p.m., estimates the river will rise to 39.8 feet by Wednesday evening, then recede to below flood level Thursday afternoon. The new forecast is 7.8 feet above flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Sonoma County issued an evacuation advisory based on a flood level of 38.3 feet and estimated about 100 structures would be affected, on top of the 550 that have already been flooded. We don't have a figure yet on how many additional homes and businesses could be in the water as the flood approaches 40 feet. Here's a snippet from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">the general description\u003c/a> of flood impacts from the river forecast center:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>39.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Significant flooding is expected to occur along the lower portions of the Russian River. River Road, along with a few houses, will flood at the town of Hacienda. Armstrong Woods Road, 4th Street, and Mill Street are forecast to flood. The village of Northwood Grove and Monte Rio School are expected to become inundated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>40.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Major flooding is expected along the Russian River. Many roads in Guerneville, Monte Rio, Rio Nido, and Hacienda will be flooded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Downpours throughout the Bay Area prompted a series of flash flood warnings and ongoing worries about flooding along the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, flood warnings or flash flood warnings were in force through Wednesday morning for dozens of communities in every Bay Area county as prolonged heavy rain fell on terrain already saturated by storms last week and over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings as creeks rose rapidly in parts of Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Alameda, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Early Tuesday evening, flood sirens warned residents in flood-prone areas of the Marin communities of Fairfax, San Anselmo and Ross to move to higher ground as local creeks reached capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the main body of Tuesday's storm passed to the east Tuesday evening -- yes, it really looks like the pounding is over for the time being -- Sonoma County still appears to have suffered the most severe impacts of the deluge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county lists \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\">45 road closures\u003c/a> due to flooding, slides and downed trees or power lines. Large swaths of agricultural land are under water. County officials say that at least 550 homes and businesses near the Russian River near Guerneville have been flooded -- a number expected to grow by at least 100 as the river reaches a crest forecast to be 6 feet over flood stage on Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scattered showers are expected overnight into Wednesday, followed by a weaker storm Thursday that could still drop another 1 to 2 inches at the Bay Area's wettest locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some precipitation highlights for the 24 hours ending at 9 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venado (Sonoma County): \u003c/strong>6.40 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kentfield (Marin County):\u003c/strong> 6.11\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Boulder Creek (Santa Cruz Mountains):\u003c/strong> 5.24 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>St. Mary's College (Moraga):\u003c/strong> 5.02 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills):\u003c/strong> 3.30 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban totals include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa:\u003c/strong> 2.92 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Rafael:\u003c/strong> 3.86 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 1.96 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Downtown San Francisco:\u003c/strong> 1.21 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland International Airport:\u003c/strong> 1.53 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Jose International Airport:\u003c/strong> .60 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Another day, another relentless rainy torrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our third major storm of 2017, fueled once more by subtropical moisture, has dumped heavy rain across most of the Bay Area. Occasionally heavy precipitation is expected to continue late into the evening before breaking up into scattered showers Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major concern in the region is flooding, and much of the attention is focused in the North Bay, especially the lower Russian River in Sonoma County. During the course of the day, the National Weather Service issued flood and flash flood warnings for large swaths of the county, including areas near Healdsburg, Geyserville, Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, Petaluma and the town of Sonoma. On the other end of the Bay Area, the service issued a flash flood warning for parts of Los Gatos as Lexington Reservoir reached capacity and sent water into Los Gatos Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In western Sonoma County, the Russian River crested at 3 feet above flood stage in Guerneville on Monday, flooding hundreds of homes and businesses in the resort town and nearby communities. After the river receded to just above flood stage today, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center says\u003c/a> the Russian is expected to rise to about 6½ over flood stage by Wednesday evening, inundating even more property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11263564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\" alt=\"California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville.\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville. \u003ccite>(CNRFC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a brief break from the major weekend storm, heavy rain resumed across the watershed late Monday and continued without respite Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among locations widely watched for gauging the intensity of rainfall that will wind up as runoff cascading into the Russian River are Venado, in the hills west of Healdsburg, and Cazadero, in the hills north of the river near the community of Duncans Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official California \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=VEN\">Department of Water Resources gauge\u003c/a> at Venado recorded 2.56 inches of rain in the 12 hours ending at noon. 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"content": "\u003cp>The head of the city department that drafts many of San Francisco’s greenest rules and regulations uses one word to explain her greatest fear for the environment during Trump’s presidency: “preemption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If some of the deepest concerns of climate-focused bureaucrats from San Francisco to Massachusetts and New York come true, the Trump administration will preemptively prevent them from acting to slow global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">California’s decision to hire Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder Jr., showed it’s preparing to fight for state rights in court.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>With Trump and Republicans in Congress widely expected to unite to undermine federal environmental protections, progressive states and cities are making plans to fight global warming within their borders without being helped or required to do so by the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Preemption is probably the progressive cities’ worst nightmare,” said \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-lee-appoints-deborah-raphael-sf-environment-director\">Deborah Raphael\u003c/a>, director of San Francisco’s environment department, which has helped city lawmakers craft rules mandating everything from greener buildings to composting and recycling by residents. “It’s also the state of California’s worst nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “preemption” doesn’t describe a single legislative or regulatory tool. 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Colorado \u003ca href=\"http://www.denverpost.com/2016/05/02/colorado-supreme-court-rules-state-law-trumps-local-bans-on-fracking/\">prevents local governments\u003c/a> from banning fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Republicans about to control both houses of Congress and the White House, environmental experts are warning of battles ahead over potential federal preemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really is virtually no aspect of federal regulation of the natural environment or health that’s not at risk of preemption now,” said \u003ca href=\"http://grassrootschange.net/mark-pertschuk/\">Mark Pertschuk\u003c/a>, a lawyer and activist with the nonprofit Grassroots Change, which \u003ca href=\"http://grassrootschange.net/preemption-map/\">tracks state preemptions\u003c/a> of local rules affecting gun safety, paid sick days, factory farming and other issues. “Federal laws almost always trump state and local laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to predict when, how or whether the federal government will wield any tools of preemption to bar cities and states from enforcing their own environmental rules. Nonetheless, governments across the country are bracing for new restrictions. California’s decision to hire Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder Jr., showed \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/us/california-eric-holder-donald-trump.html?_r=0\">it’s preparing to fight\u003c/a> for state rights in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is speculative right now,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlc.org/find-city-solutions/city-solutions-and-applied-research/staff-specialties\">Cooper Martin\u003c/a>, a sustainability official at the National League of Cities, which represents cities in state capitols and on Capitol Hill. Based on Trump’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-cabinet-climate-change-20920\">anti-environmental cabinet nominees\u003c/a> and his rhetoric on climate change, which he has falsely called a hoax, Martin said fears of federal preemption are “certainly well founded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the nature of the political landscape that this hasn’t been an issue on climate, at least in the last eight years,” Martin said, referring to the length of Obama’s presidency. “It was certainly an issue prior to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clean car rules in California, which are unpopular with oil companies and auto manufacturers, offer what may be the clearest opportunity for federal preemption. Other rules that could be blocked relate to appliance efficiency standards, power plant pollution, fossil fuel exports and safe disposal of pharmaceuticals. Local governments that have spent federal transportation funds on cycling and transit initiatives could be prevented from doing so in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs that allow cities to invest in bike and pedestrian infrastructure, or that allow cities to invest in transit, have all become more popular, particularly in the larger cities,” Martin said. “We want to make sure that there’s flexibility for the cities that do choose to go down this path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clean Air Act allows California to enforce stricter standards on car pollution than the federal government. It also allows other states to adopt California’s rules. But to do so, California needs a waiver from the EPA. When George W. 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Now he might lead a charge to limit the rights of states to enforce their own pollution rules to slow climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1312191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1312191\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Pruitt, Trump's nominee to lead the EPA. \" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Pruitt, Trump’s nominee to lead the EPA. \u003ccite>(Gage Skidmore/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within days of Trump’s election, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/assets/PDF/CA1078111110.PDF\">sent the president-elect a letter\u003c/a> arguing that the “regulatory friction” caused by two sets of car pollution standards is “driving up vehicle costs.” The automakers implored Trump to eliminate California’s far-reaching clean car rules through what they call “harmonization” with federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could see the U.S. EPA refuse to grant future waivers; there’s even been some talk that they could try to strip away existing waivers,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccair.org/our-people/\">Bill Magavern\u003c/a>, the policy director at the Coalition for Clean Air, a California nonprofit. “It’s safe to say California would sue in either instance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/directory/michael-wara/\">Michael Wara\u003c/a>, an energy and environment expert at Stanford Law School, said the federal government could go further than car standards and try to revoke the rights of states to limit heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution billowed by power plants. It could also jeopardize “anything that smells like foreign policy” by states, Wara said, including linkages between a carbon pricing system operated jointly by California and Quebec.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that looks and feels like a treaty — that creates binding obligations on both sides — is going to face increased judicial scrutiny,” Wara said. “Here, if there is any conflict, the state loses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all talk of federal preemption is hypothetical. Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/01/05/document_gw_14.pdf\">introduced a bill last week\u003c/a> that would repeal federal efficiency standards affecting washing machines, dryers, ceiling fans, fridges and other appliances. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The head of the city department that drafts many of San Francisco’s greenest rules and regulations uses one word to explain her greatest fear for the environment during Trump’s presidency: “preemption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If some of the deepest concerns of climate-focused bureaucrats from San Francisco to Massachusetts and New York come true, the Trump administration will preemptively prevent them from acting to slow global warming.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">California’s decision to hire Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder Jr., showed it’s preparing to fight for state rights in court.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>With Trump and Republicans in Congress widely expected to unite to undermine federal environmental protections, progressive states and cities are making plans to fight global warming within their borders without being helped or required to do so by the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Preemption is probably the progressive cities’ worst nightmare,” said \u003ca href=\"http://sfmayor.org/article/mayor-lee-appoints-deborah-raphael-sf-environment-director\">Deborah Raphael\u003c/a>, director of San Francisco’s environment department, which has helped city lawmakers craft rules mandating everything from greener buildings to composting and recycling by residents. “It’s also the state of California’s worst nightmare.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The term “preemption” doesn’t describe a single legislative or regulatory tool. The word describes a concept, in which the federal government or a state imposes restrictions on the rules and programs that governments operating beneath it are allowed to implement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Colorado \u003ca href=\"http://www.denverpost.com/2016/05/02/colorado-supreme-court-rules-state-law-trumps-local-bans-on-fracking/\">prevents local governments\u003c/a> from banning fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Republicans about to control both houses of Congress and the White House, environmental experts are warning of battles ahead over potential federal preemptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There really is virtually no aspect of federal regulation of the natural environment or health that’s not at risk of preemption now,” said \u003ca href=\"http://grassrootschange.net/mark-pertschuk/\">Mark Pertschuk\u003c/a>, a lawyer and activist with the nonprofit Grassroots Change, which \u003ca href=\"http://grassrootschange.net/preemption-map/\">tracks state preemptions\u003c/a> of local rules affecting gun safety, paid sick days, factory farming and other issues. “Federal laws almost always trump state and local laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to predict when, how or whether the federal government will wield any tools of preemption to bar cities and states from enforcing their own environmental rules. Nonetheless, governments across the country are bracing for new restrictions. California’s decision to hire Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder Jr., showed \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/us/california-eric-holder-donald-trump.html?_r=0\">it’s preparing to fight\u003c/a> for state rights in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything is speculative right now,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.nlc.org/find-city-solutions/city-solutions-and-applied-research/staff-specialties\">Cooper Martin\u003c/a>, a sustainability official at the National League of Cities, which represents cities in state capitols and on Capitol Hill. Based on Trump’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trump-cabinet-climate-change-20920\">anti-environmental cabinet nominees\u003c/a> and his rhetoric on climate change, which he has falsely called a hoax, Martin said fears of federal preemption are “certainly well founded.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the nature of the political landscape that this hasn’t been an issue on climate, at least in the last eight years,” Martin said, referring to the length of Obama’s presidency. “It was certainly an issue prior to that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clean car rules in California, which are unpopular with oil companies and auto manufacturers, offer what may be the clearest opportunity for federal preemption. Other rules that could be blocked relate to appliance efficiency standards, power plant pollution, fossil fuel exports and safe disposal of pharmaceuticals. Local governments that have spent federal transportation funds on cycling and transit initiatives could be prevented from doing so in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Programs that allow cities to invest in bike and pedestrian infrastructure, or that allow cities to invest in transit, have all become more popular, particularly in the larger cities,” Martin said. “We want to make sure that there’s flexibility for the cities that do choose to go down this path.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Clean Air Act allows California to enforce stricter standards on car pollution than the federal government. It also allows other states to adopt California’s rules. But to do so, California needs a waiver from the EPA. When George W. 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Now he might lead a charge to limit the rights of states to enforce their own pollution rules to slow climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1312191\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1312191\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Pruitt, Trump's nominee to lead the EPA. \" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/Scott-Pruitt-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Pruitt, Trump’s nominee to lead the EPA. \u003ccite>(Gage Skidmore/flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within days of Trump’s election, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers \u003ca href=\"http://www.autonews.com/assets/PDF/CA1078111110.PDF\">sent the president-elect a letter\u003c/a> arguing that the “regulatory friction” caused by two sets of car pollution standards is “driving up vehicle costs.” The automakers implored Trump to eliminate California’s far-reaching clean car rules through what they call “harmonization” with federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could see the U.S. EPA refuse to grant future waivers; there’s even been some talk that they could try to strip away existing waivers,” said \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccair.org/our-people/\">Bill Magavern\u003c/a>, the policy director at the Coalition for Clean Air, a California nonprofit. “It’s safe to say California would sue in either instance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://law.stanford.edu/directory/michael-wara/\">Michael Wara\u003c/a>, an energy and environment expert at Stanford Law School, said the federal government could go further than car standards and try to revoke the rights of states to limit heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution billowed by power plants. It could also jeopardize “anything that smells like foreign policy” by states, Wara said, including linkages between a carbon pricing system operated jointly by California and Quebec.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that looks and feels like a treaty — that creates binding obligations on both sides — is going to face increased judicial scrutiny,” Wara said. “Here, if there is any conflict, the state loses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all talk of federal preemption is hypothetical. Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas, \u003ca href=\"http://www.eenews.net/assets/2017/01/05/document_gw_14.pdf\">introduced a bill last week\u003c/a> that would repeal federal efficiency standards affecting washing machines, dryers, ceiling fans, fridges and other appliances. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Originally posted Jan. 7, 2017\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f you're obsessively following the latest rainy wallop hitting the Bay Are, here are three views that will show you the action as rendered in one case by Doppler radar and in the others by a combination of weather models, supercomputers and digital visualization geniuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. \u003cstrong>San Francisco Bay Area Doppler radar\u003c/strong>, via Weather Underground: This is old hat if you're a weather watcher. For online news producers, this rendering of our regional weather radar is great because it's easy to embed and it updates every time you refresh the page.\u003cbr>\n[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=MUX&brand=wui&num=10&delay=25&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&mapx=400&mapy=240%C2%A2erx=400%C2%A2ery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0&rand=24697214&lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://earth.nullschool.net/#2017/01/08/0600Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=precip_3hr/orthographic=-127.43,38.34,3000/loc=-122.453,37.760\" target=\"_blank\">Earth\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: This is a visualization of precipitation for the next three hours based on output from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs\" target=\"_blank\">Global Forecasting System\u003c/a> (GFS, for short). You can find a little background on the visualization here: \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/28/california-storm-the-coolest-view-you-will-see-today/\" target=\"_blank\">California's Storm: The Coolest View You Will See Today\u003c/a>. A user tip: Experiment with the visualization. Click on the label that says \"Earth\" in the bottom left-hand corner, and you'll open up a menu that will give you a choice of a variety of different views -- of surface winds, for instance, or for winds at the 850-millibar level (about 5,000 feet above sea level).\u003cbr>\n[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=precip_3hr/orthographic=-129.21,38.26,2922/loc=-126.983,38.872\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/\" target=\"_blank\">NCEP High-Resolution Rapid Refresh\u003c/a>-Simulated Radar Reflectivity\u003c/strong>: Yes, this is somewhat geeky, and it's not super easy to use. But it is very cool: This is the simulated radar output for our region produced by the newish HRRR model. It's called \"rapid refresh\" because it's updated every hour (instead of every six, as is typical for the principal forecast models). Also unlike those models, it's an attempt to estimate weather conditions every hour for the 18 hours after each model run is completed. In effect, it's an attempt to look into the immediate future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image below is from HRRR's noon Tuesday run, which is the model's forecast for the 18 hours running through 6 p.m.. The image below is a rendering of what the composite radar picture \u003cem>may\u003c/em> look like at 3 a.m. Sunday. That yellow and orange and red stretching from across the coast to San Francisco, the East Bay and beyond? That's a forecast for sustained heavy rain at that hour. (Note that the images are labeled in UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, the current equivalent of Greenwich Mean Time. That's eight hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time, so 11:00 UTC is 3 a.m. PST.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 859px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110.png\" alt=\"A simulated radar image from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh weather model, depicting forecast conditions for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017.\" width=\"859\" height=\"930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11263693\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110.png 859w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-160x173.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-800x866.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-240x260.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-375x406.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-520x563.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simulated radar image from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh weather model, depicting forecast conditions for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the link to \u003ca href=\"http://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/HRRR/Welcome.cgi?dsKey=hrrr_ncep_jet&domain=z1&run_time=10+Jan+2017+-+20Z\" target=\"_blank\">images for the first 14 hours\u003c/a> of the noon Tuesday run. 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"content": "\u003cp>SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled an austere spending plan for the fiscal year that will begin in July, returning to familiar rhetoric warning of an impending economic downturn and adding new notes of caution about how Republicans' dominance in Washington, D.C., could impact California's bottom line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/302085705\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown, announcing his budget Tuesday just 10 days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, warned that this year could be the most difficult since 2012 as the \"surging tide of revenues we have enjoyed the past few years appear to have turned.\" He said the state has a $2 billion budget deficit -- far less than the $27 billion shortfall he inherited, but still important. Brown said that, in general, California's budget surpluses are far smaller than its deficits \"and that really is the challenge of California.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The trajectory of revenue growth is declining ... but is still growing,\" Brown said. \"So compared to many other places in the world ... California is still growing. We would have had a deficit if we hadn't engaged in cuts and the tax measures that were passed in the ballot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11263499 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/BudgetGraphic-800x862.jpg\" alt='The \"surging tide of revenues we have enjoyed the past few years appear to have turned,\" Gov. 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Brown said as he unveiled his new budget on Tuesday in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Marisa Lagos/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To deal with the declining revenues, Brown said he is proposing to roll back some planned spending increases to education and to eliminate a $400 million fund for affordable housing that was not spent last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also wants to halt $300 million in spending on modernizing state office buildings. And, the governor said he will keep spending flat by pausing rate increases for child care and not allowing any new students to qualify for a higher education scholarship fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor said he will protect what he called the Capitol's \"most important achievements\" under his watch -- education spending increases, an earned income tax credit for the working poor, a rising minimum wage and adding millions of Californians to the rolls of the insured. And he said he will again propose a transportation package that would add $43 billion over 10 years to help shore up roads, highways and bridges. It would be funded through new vehicle fees, an increase in the gas tax and an increase to the diesel excise tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"caCOvJvHD34SXS0CpFdcpXq2usWDsb9a\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On climate change -- one of Brown's signature issues -- the governor said he wants lawmakers to take up the state's cap-and-trade system and approve it by a two-thirds vote. The program has been in court after legal challenges that in part center around the fact that a majority, not a supermajority, of the Legislature authorized the program. Brown said that uncertainty is impacting its financial success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very important program that's part of our climate change strategy,\" he said, noting that with people hostile to climate change policies taking over the federal government, \"the whole world is looking to us. ... We ought to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is making no assumptions about what Congress and President-elect Trump will do -- particularly around health care -- but that he's not budgeting based on things that haven't yet occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are too many uncertainties that could put a massive hole in the budget,\" he said. \"This budget can move very quickly -- what I call riding the tide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"tRtfzyVVZJm5TboxPPr0Smmh0UnOeqLB\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could go the other way, he said -- revenues could increase in coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's financial volatility, Brown said, is largely because of what the governor called the state's \"progressive\" tax structure that relies on capital gains taxes from its wealthiest residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California has the most progressive tax system in the U.S. -- but as a a corollary, we have one of the most unreliable revenue systems in the country and to manage it reliably requires prudence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that's why he's pushed the state to save money in good years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want a progressive tax system, you need a big rainy day fund,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans had a mixed reaction to Brown's budget proposal. Senate Minority Leader Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) said more money should be going to the state's reserve funds and toward paying down the state's pension liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we agree with the governor that a spending decrease solution is far better than a tax increase solution at this time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, rejected the governor's plan to increase gas taxes to fund road and highway repairs. Legislative Democrats have made similar proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are already paying the highest gas taxes in the country,\" Obernolte said. \"And there are large sections of revenue that we can return to funding state road and highway construction that are not being so spent right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democratic lawmakers generally commended Brown's cautious approach, they pushed back on the lack of funding in some areas. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D- Los Angeles) criticized Brown's plan to phase out the Middle Class Scholarship Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must work to keep college affordable for California students, and I will not support burdening them with higher fees and greater student debt — whether that's done by raising tuition or phasing out the Middle Class Scholarship,\" Rendon said in a statement. \"Ending the Middle Class Scholarship would increase the cost of a student’s four year education by up to $9,000 at CSU and up to $20,000 at UC.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of new funding for affordable housing concerned Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who chairs the Assembly housing committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"(Brown) repeated his position that the answer is to streamline housing approvals, and I share the perspective that many jurisdictions around our state are not doing enough to build homes for our residents, especially in areas where job growth is dramatically outpacing housing creation,\" Chiu said in a statement. \"But the market alone will never solve the housing crisis for struggling Californians.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown also wants to halt $300 million in spending on modernizing state office buildings. And, the governor said he will keep spending flat by pausing rate increases for child care and not allowing any new students to qualify for a higher education scholarship fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the governor said he will protect what he called the Capitol's \"most important achievements\" under his watch -- education spending increases, an earned income tax credit for the working poor, a rising minimum wage and adding millions of Californians to the rolls of the insured. And he said he will again propose a transportation package that would add $43 billion over 10 years to help shore up roads, highways and bridges. It would be funded through new vehicle fees, an increase in the gas tax and an increase to the diesel excise tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On climate change -- one of Brown's signature issues -- the governor said he wants lawmakers to take up the state's cap-and-trade system and approve it by a two-thirds vote. The program has been in court after legal challenges that in part center around the fact that a majority, not a supermajority, of the Legislature authorized the program. Brown said that uncertainty is impacting its financial success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a very important program that's part of our climate change strategy,\" he said, noting that with people hostile to climate change policies taking over the federal government, \"the whole world is looking to us. ... We ought to continue.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is making no assumptions about what Congress and President-elect Trump will do -- particularly around health care -- but that he's not budgeting based on things that haven't yet occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are too many uncertainties that could put a massive hole in the budget,\" he said. \"This budget can move very quickly -- what I call riding the tide.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could go the other way, he said -- revenues could increase in coming months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's financial volatility, Brown said, is largely because of what the governor called the state's \"progressive\" tax structure that relies on capital gains taxes from its wealthiest residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California has the most progressive tax system in the U.S. -- but as a a corollary, we have one of the most unreliable revenue systems in the country and to manage it reliably requires prudence.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said that's why he's pushed the state to save money in good years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you want a progressive tax system, you need a big rainy day fund,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans had a mixed reaction to Brown's budget proposal. Senate Minority Leader Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) said more money should be going to the state's reserve funds and toward paying down the state's pension liabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we agree with the governor that a spending decrease solution is far better than a tax increase solution at this time,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Jay Obernolte, R-Hesperia, rejected the governor's plan to increase gas taxes to fund road and highway repairs. Legislative Democrats have made similar proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are already paying the highest gas taxes in the country,\" Obernolte said. \"And there are large sections of revenue that we can return to funding state road and highway construction that are not being so spent right now.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Democratic lawmakers generally commended Brown's cautious approach, they pushed back on the lack of funding in some areas. Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D- Los Angeles) criticized Brown's plan to phase out the Middle Class Scholarship Program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We must work to keep college affordable for California students, and I will not support burdening them with higher fees and greater student debt — whether that's done by raising tuition or phasing out the Middle Class Scholarship,\" Rendon said in a statement. \"Ending the Middle Class Scholarship would increase the cost of a student’s four year education by up to $9,000 at CSU and up to $20,000 at UC.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of new funding for affordable housing concerned Assemblyman David Chiu, D-San Francisco, who chairs the Assembly housing committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell wants to haul executives from the Chevron oil company to City Hall to explain why two malfunctions at their Richmond refinery may have sent toxic gas to San Francisco twice late last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/06/mysterious-s-f-odors-preceded-by-high-levels-of-toxic-gas-in-richmond/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED's reporting\u003c/a>, Farrell on Tuesday plans to call for a hearing into the series of refinery problems in Richmond that apparently sent large amounts of hydrogen sulfide into the air hours before dozens of residents on the other side of San Francisco Bay complained of a sulfurlike smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For two consecutive nights, a strange rotten-egg smell lingered in the air in San Francisco,\" Farrell said. \"Chevron must answer for their actions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with Chevron, Farrell wants air district officials and air quality experts to appear before the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"OK7nzEA0h5WAy0rYxiRAJKz3CQ5Okrnd\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is the second elected leader in the Bay Area to call for more action from Chevron on the heels of two flaring incidents at the refinery on Dec. 27 and 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Gioia, the Contra Costa County supervisor who represents the area of the refinery and who sits on the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) board, said late last week that the air district believes the abnormally high amounts of hydrogen sulfide detected by one of Chevron's air monitors after flaring operations \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/06/air-district-says-chevron-refinery-in-richmond-probably-caused-mysterious-s-f-odors/\" target=\"_blank\">caused the sulfurlike smell\u003c/a> in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gioia says the oil company will probably be fined by the air district for violating air quality standards and by Contra Costa County authorities for waiting 13 hours to report its first flaring incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell is also unhappy about the oil company's late notification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That extreme delay is unacceptable while people's lives and safety are at risk,\" Farrell said. \"The public deserves to know why they occurred in the first place, why there was a delay in reporting the flares, and what procedures are in place to protect against flaring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron and other local refineries emphasize that flaring is a highly regulated safety method used to relieve pressure inside their facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has pushed back against the theory that malfunctions at its Richmond facility caused the San Francisco odor and maintains that it's working with air regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We continue to meet and cooperate with BAAQMD on their investigation,\" company spokeswoman Leah Casey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district, which is still investigating, has not told Chevron that the refinery is the source of the odors, according to Casey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As required by the Contra Costa Health Services, we have prepared and submitted three 72-hour reports based upon our investigation of the flaring events that took place on Dec. 27 and Dec. 28,\" Casey said in a statement. \"This report includes a summary of data collected from air monitoring stations during the incidents and meteorological conditions. The data shows that emissions were well within applicable health standards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The readings of hydrogen sulfide violated standards set by the air district, but they were not high enough to trigger a federal violation of air limits, according the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Farrell is not the only one who wants answers. Local environmentalists want them as well. They were alarmed by the hydrogen sulfide readings -- which were so intense in one case that they maxed out Chevron's pollution monitoring equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to know much more about this disturbing incident to ensure this refinery doesn't continue endangering our air,\" said Hollin Kretzmann, an Oakland-based attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Public officials must hold Chevron accountable and require the giant oil company to track its dangerous air pollution throughout the Bay Area,\" Kretzmann said. \"They should also consider whether this problem-prone facility should cut the risk of pollution by reducing operations.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Emergency crews worked to remove the vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I couldn't get past the tree, so I turned around and I'm doing this,\" said Watts, who had pulled over to photograph oak trees and their reflections in the floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sacramento River levels swelled so much that state officials planned to open a weir located upstream from Sacramento's Tower Bridge for the first time in more than a decade. The weir is a barrier of 48 gates that must be opened manually to protect the city of Sacramento from floodwaters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yosemite National Park will reopen the valley floor to day visitors Tuesday after it was closed through the weekend and Monday because of a storm-swollen river, park spokesman Scott Gediman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, trees crashed against cars and homes and blocked roads in the Bay Area. Stranded motorists had to be rescued from cars stuck on flooded roads. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown unveils his budget proposal Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers will be particularly interested in how the governor approaches two key policy areas: transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders got a lot done in 2016, there was no grand deal on how to tackle two of California's most vexing and expensive infrastructure challenges. Now, Democrats in Sacramento -- who control both houses of the Legislature -- say that improving aging transportation infrastructure and building more affordable housing are among their top priorities in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301828644\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who have pushed for state solutions to both issues in the past said they're optimistic that the time is right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all indications are that there is a great desire among the whole spectrum of my colleagues to really focus on these issues of housing and transportation in a way we haven't in the past, so I am hopeful,\" said San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, state leaders need to find money to tackle either problem -- and that's where the challenge lies. Last year, a special session called by the governor in 2015 to deal with the state's estimated $130 billion in road repair needs \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article116573743.html\">ended without any agreement\u003c/a> on how to fund those fixes. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-affordable-housing-union-fight-20160720-snap-story.html\">proposal by Brown \u003c/a>to put $400 million into low-income housing development if lawmakers agreed to relax building regulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article96492302.html\">died amid concerted opposition\u003c/a> by environmentalists, local governments and the construction trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11262348 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to relax local land-use rules, which was included in the package.\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-240x139.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-375x217.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-520x301.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to relax local land-use rules, which was included in the package. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats now have a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Legislature -- meaning that in theory, they could pass a gas tax or other tax hike without Republican votes. It's not clear whether moderate Democrats are any more willing to back tax hikes than GOP lawmakers are, but Chiu said he think there's room for agreement, since the issues transcend regional differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do see a path in part because these crises have only intensified -- the housing crisis that started in San Francisco and the Bay Area has spread to the entire state of California,\" he said. \"And Californians up and down the state are very frustrated with the state of our roads, with the lateness of public transit, the lack of real options to get around and the tremendous congestion we face on the roads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Road repairs are something that if we don’t do, it’s like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy.'\u003ccite>Sen. Jim Beall\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>State Senate President Kevin de León said there is agreement among both houses of the Legislature and the governor that a transportation infrastructure plan is needed. He hopes to get it done within months -- and with Republican support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is that we can get it done in a bipartisan fashion, irrespective of the supermajorities that we currently enjoy in both the Assembly and Senate, because a transportation infrastructure package is a vote for continued economic growth of the middle class of California,\" said de León, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Sen. Jim Beall has been one of the Legislature's most vocal supporters of a transportation deal. He noted that lawmakers already have legislation in front of them in both houses -- in the Senate, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1\">he authored SB 1\u003c/a> -- that would \u003ca href=\"http://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-12-05-beall-introduces-new-transportation-infrastructure-maintenance-bill\">raise about $6 billion a year \u003c/a>through an increase the gas tax and car registration fees. That plan is \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-new-transportation-funding-plan-calls-1471476415-htmlstory.html\">more expansive than the 6-cents-per-gallon tax proposed by the governor last year, but less ambitious \u003c/a>than earlier proposals of Beall and other Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Road repairs are something that if we don't do, it's like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy,\" Beall said. \"The governor has said it makes no sense to let things deteriorate further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he expects Brown to make a proposal similar to the one the governor's office put out in 2016 and he hopes they can strike a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing Agreement Further Off\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is at least agreement between lawmakers and the governor on potential funding sources for transportation, common ground on housing may be a bit stickier. Brown's proposal last year was seen by critics as a giveaway to developers that would have done little to spur affordable housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, lawmakers have a host of ideas on the table. Chiu and other Democrats in the Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/news-room/press-releases/assemblymember-david-chiu-joins-colleagues-to-announce-bills-to-address-affordable-housing-crisis\">unveiled a legislative package in December\u003c/a> that includes a proposal to eliminate a tax break for second homes, $400 million a year they want to redirect toward affordable housing development. In the Senate, Beall and San Diego Democratic Sen. Toni Atkins are looking to tack on a $75 fee to real estate transactions to fund the construction of low-income homes; they also want to put a $3 billion housing bond before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11262355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-520x310.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015. \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear whether Brown, who has been reticent to add to the state's debt or increase taxes and fees, would support either proposal. Assemblyman Phil Ting, who is a co-author of the Assembly proposals, said he thinks there is room for agreement with Brown and others who may be wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting, D-San Francisco, said the state needs to take a bigger role in funding affordable housing development after taking a step back in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we also heard loud and clear the governor's desire to streamline the development of housing so we can reduce those costs, so public dollars can go further, which makes a lot of sense,\" he said. \"I think there are different proposals we are looking at that can balance the interest of different groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What About Trump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild card in all of this is what a Donald Trump presidency will do to the state budget. The president-elect has\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/29/donald-trump-wants-to-cut-funding-from-sanctuary-cities-but-can-he/\"> threatened to strip funding from \"sanctuary\" jurisdictions\u003c/a> like California that limit their cooperation with federal immigration officials, and there's\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/09/obamacare-repeal-could-punch-15-billion-hole-in-state-budget/\"> huge uncertainty over what a repeal of Obamacare will do to the state's Medicaid program\u003c/a>, Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Trump has repeatedly talked about investing in infrastructure. Democrats said they're open to working with the new president, but are skeptical of how Republicans will go about paying for an infrastructure package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where we can find common ground with Washington we will find common ground, but to move an infrastructure package at a national level by incurring much more debt, and by rolling that debt over year after year, is not the most fiscally prudent thing to do,\" de León said. \"You can't offer free money because there's no free money -- somebody has to pay for it eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, lawmakers agree, the heart of the debate this year will focus on that exact question: how to pay for the investment they believe the state desperately needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Katie Orr contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Gov. Jerry Brown unveils his budget proposal Tuesday morning, Democratic lawmakers will be particularly interested in how the governor approaches two key policy areas: transportation and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders got a lot done in 2016, there was no grand deal on how to tackle two of California's most vexing and expensive infrastructure challenges. Now, Democrats in Sacramento -- who control both houses of the Legislature -- say that improving aging transportation infrastructure and building more affordable housing are among their top priorities in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301828644&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/301828644'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers who have pushed for state solutions to both issues in the past said they're optimistic that the time is right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think all indications are that there is a great desire among the whole spectrum of my colleagues to really focus on these issues of housing and transportation in a way we haven't in the past, so I am hopeful,\" said San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman David Chiu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, state leaders need to find money to tackle either problem -- and that's where the challenge lies. Last year, a special session called by the governor in 2015 to deal with the state's estimated $130 billion in road repair needs \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article116573743.html\">ended without any agreement\u003c/a> on how to fund those fixes. Another \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-jerry-brown-affordable-housing-union-fight-20160720-snap-story.html\">proposal by Brown \u003c/a>to put $400 million into low-income housing development if lawmakers agreed to relax building regulations \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article96492302.html\">died amid concerted opposition\u003c/a> by environmentalists, local governments and the construction trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262348\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11262348 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-800x463.jpg\" alt=\"In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to relax local land-use rules, which was included in the package.\" width=\"800\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-160x93.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-240x139.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-375x217.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/Rendon-520x301.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In August, Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon declared a $400 million affordable housing package 'dead,' pointing to intense opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to relax local land-use rules, which was included in the package. \u003ccite>(KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democrats now have a two-thirds majority in both houses of the Legislature -- meaning that in theory, they could pass a gas tax or other tax hike without Republican votes. It's not clear whether moderate Democrats are any more willing to back tax hikes than GOP lawmakers are, but Chiu said he think there's room for agreement, since the issues transcend regional differences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I do see a path in part because these crises have only intensified -- the housing crisis that started in San Francisco and the Bay Area has spread to the entire state of California,\" he said. \"And Californians up and down the state are very frustrated with the state of our roads, with the lateness of public transit, the lack of real options to get around and the tremendous congestion we face on the roads.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Road repairs are something that if we don’t do, it’s like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy.'\u003ccite>Sen. Jim Beall\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>State Senate President Kevin de León said there is agreement among both houses of the Legislature and the governor that a transportation infrastructure plan is needed. He hopes to get it done within months -- and with Republican support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My hope is that we can get it done in a bipartisan fashion, irrespective of the supermajorities that we currently enjoy in both the Assembly and Senate, because a transportation infrastructure package is a vote for continued economic growth of the middle class of California,\" said de León, D-Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Sen. Jim Beall has been one of the Legislature's most vocal supporters of a transportation deal. He noted that lawmakers already have legislation in front of them in both houses -- in the Senate, \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1\">he authored SB 1\u003c/a> -- that would \u003ca href=\"http://sd15.senate.ca.gov/news/2016-12-05-beall-introduces-new-transportation-infrastructure-maintenance-bill\">raise about $6 billion a year \u003c/a>through an increase the gas tax and car registration fees. That plan is \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-new-transportation-funding-plan-calls-1471476415-htmlstory.html\">more expansive than the 6-cents-per-gallon tax proposed by the governor last year, but less ambitious \u003c/a>than earlier proposals of Beall and other Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Road repairs are something that if we don't do, it's like an unfunded liability -- it is wrecking the economy,\" Beall said. \"The governor has said it makes no sense to let things deteriorate further.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he expects Brown to make a proposal similar to the one the governor's office put out in 2016 and he hopes they can strike a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Housing Agreement Further Off\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is at least agreement between lawmakers and the governor on potential funding sources for transportation, common ground on housing may be a bit stickier. Brown's proposal last year was seen by critics as a giveaway to developers that would have done little to spur affordable housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, lawmakers have a host of ideas on the table. Chiu and other Democrats in the Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://asmdc.org/members/a17/news-room/press-releases/assemblymember-david-chiu-joins-colleagues-to-announce-bills-to-address-affordable-housing-crisis\">unveiled a legislative package in December\u003c/a> that includes a proposal to eliminate a tax break for second homes, $400 million a year they want to redirect toward affordable housing development. In the Senate, Beall and San Diego Democratic Sen. Toni Atkins are looking to tack on a $75 fee to real estate transactions to fund the construction of low-income homes; they also want to put a $3 billion housing bond before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11262355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11262355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg\" alt=\"Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015.\" width=\"800\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-800x477.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-160x95.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1020x608.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-1180x703.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-960x572.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-240x143.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-375x223.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/SfLuxuryHOusing-520x310.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luxury housing under construction in San Francisco in 2015. \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's not clear whether Brown, who has been reticent to add to the state's debt or increase taxes and fees, would support either proposal. Assemblyman Phil Ting, who is a co-author of the Assembly proposals, said he thinks there is room for agreement with Brown and others who may be wary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ting, D-San Francisco, said the state needs to take a bigger role in funding affordable housing development after taking a step back in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But we also heard loud and clear the governor's desire to streamline the development of housing so we can reduce those costs, so public dollars can go further, which makes a lot of sense,\" he said. \"I think there are different proposals we are looking at that can balance the interest of different groups.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What About Trump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wild card in all of this is what a Donald Trump presidency will do to the state budget. The president-elect has\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/11/29/donald-trump-wants-to-cut-funding-from-sanctuary-cities-but-can-he/\"> threatened to strip funding from \"sanctuary\" jurisdictions\u003c/a> like California that limit their cooperation with federal immigration officials, and there's\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/01/09/obamacare-repeal-could-punch-15-billion-hole-in-state-budget/\"> huge uncertainty over what a repeal of Obamacare will do to the state's Medicaid program\u003c/a>, Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, Trump has repeatedly talked about investing in infrastructure. Democrats said they're open to working with the new president, but are skeptical of how Republicans will go about paying for an infrastructure package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Where we can find common ground with Washington we will find common ground, but to move an infrastructure package at a national level by incurring much more debt, and by rolling that debt over year after year, is not the most fiscally prudent thing to do,\" de León said. \"You can't offer free money because there's no free money -- somebody has to pay for it eventually.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, lawmakers agree, the heart of the debate this year will focus on that exact question: how to pay for the investment they believe the state desperately needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Americans have had one primary reason for building dams over the past century: capturing water for growth, whether on farms or in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a new dam proposed on California’s Bear River offers another reason: adapting to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.centennialreservoir.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Centennial dam\u003c/span>\u003c/a> project, proposed by the Nevada Irrigation District, is intended to capture rainfall at lower elevations to make up for declining snowpack at higher elevations. It would be built at an elevation of about 2,000 feet between two existing reservoirs on the Bear River—Rollins and Combie—in a region of the Sierra Nevada where winter rainfall can be prolific but snowfall is light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district suffered in 2015, along with the rest of California, when winter snowpack nearly vanished completely. On April 1 of that year, at the end of winter, the state Department of Water Resources measured the Sierra snowpack at just \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/040115snowsurvey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">5 percent of average\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the lowest ever recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1309876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1138px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1309876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the proposed Centennial Reservoir site near Meadow Vista, Calif. \" width=\"1138\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap.jpg 1138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-160x202.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-800x1012.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-768x972.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-1020x1291.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-960x1215.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-240x304.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-375x475.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-520x658.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the proposed Centennial Reservoir site near Meadow Vista, Calif.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nevada Irrigation District that year was forced to buy water from Pacific Gas \u003cspan class=\"amp\">&\u003c/span> Electric Co. out of Rollins Reservoir to serve its customers. That emergency supply—16,000 acre-feet (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">19.7\u003c/span> million cubic meters) – cost $1 million and might not be available next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district doesn’t want to have to go begging like that again, said Nick Wilcox, a member of the district’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are being seriously impacted now by climate change, and will be more so in the future,” Wilcox said. “This is an attempt to create more mid-elevation storage to capture winter rains for use later in time. We need to control our own destiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change scenarios anticipate, as temperatures rise, more Sierra precipitation will fall as rain rather than snow. That means the mountain snowpack that California has relied upon historically to survive its hot summers may no longer be sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The Nevada Irrigation District conceived Centennial Dam in 1927, and water rights for the project have been held ‘in trust’ ever since.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Centennial proposal would store 110,000 acre-feet (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">135.7\u003c/span> million cubic meters) of water by building a dam 275 feet (84m) tall across the Bear River, near the town of Meadow Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would make it larger than any of the district’s existing \u003ca href=\"http://nidwater.com/water-service/about-your-water/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">10 reservoirs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and it would be one of the largest dams built in California in some time. For example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccwater.com/435/Los-Vaqueros-Project-History\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Los Vaqueros Reservoir\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, built by Contra Costa Water District, was 100,000 acre-feet (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">123.3\u003c/span> million cubic meters) when first constructed in 1998 (and expanded to 160,000 acre-feet).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district hopes to release a draft environmental impact report on the project in 2017 and start construction for the district’s 100th anniversary in 2021—hence the “centennial” name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it is hardly the first dam on the Bear River, the project has prompted a number of concerns among local residents and river advocates, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Less streamflow for imperiled fish downstream.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It would silence a 6-mile stretch of flowing water that residents enjoy, drowning the popular Bear River Campground operated by Placer County, as well as 25 homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It will require a new bridge across the Bear River that could bring more traffic through Meadow Vista.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It would flood dozens of American Indian cultural sites along the river.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s a 19th-century solution to a 21st-century problem,” said Traci Sheehan, coordinator of the Foothill Water Network, a coalition of local groups formed to oppose the dam. “Especially during a time of climate change, you need to be really thoughtful. We believe there are more cost-effective and less environmentally destructive alternatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those is meadow restoration, Sheehan said. Sierra meadows have been degraded by more than a century of logging and livestock grazing, reducing their ability to store precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of agencies are working to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article13156424.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">restore meadows\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as a water supply solution. The Nevada Irrigation District could do the same thing, Sheehan said, on the 70,000 acres (28,328 hectares) of mountain watershed that help fill its water system today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another is conservation. Only 10 percent of the district’s customers are residential or business customers who consume treated water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest are agricultural customers who receive untreated or “raw” water. This water is delivered in a 475-mile (764km) ditch system. Much of this dates to the Gold Rush and a lot of it is unlined, resulting in losses of 10 percent or more due to seepage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has a program to line or pipe its ditches “when feasible,” said general manager Rem Scherzinger. In practice, this means about 2 miles (3.2km) per year, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://nidwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/FINAL2015_Agricultural_Water_Mgmt_Plan_012916.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As any responsible agency should, we must explore and utilize all of our resources,” Scherzinger said. “These range from conservation and watershed management to leak loss prevention and the construction of storage facilities to try to protect our community. Centennial is one facet in a holistic approach to survive the coming reality of climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s treated water customers were required by the state to achieve 33 percent conservation last year because of the drought. They managed 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its raw water customers, however, had no conservation requirement because the state exempted agricultural water users. Although many of the district’s raw water customers are small farmers and ranchers, many are large residential property owners who use the water for other purposes, including landscaping and ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we want to make sure farmers get every ounce of water they need for their crops, we believe a lot of agricultural water is going to water the lawns of McMansions,” said Caleb Dardick, executive director of the South Yuba River Citizens League, a small but influential environmental group working to restore river flows for fish and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unusual feature of the Nevada Irrigation District system is that it diverts substantial amounts of water from the Yuba River, through a tunnel, into the Bear River, to serve a significant share of its customers in both Nevada and Placer counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dardick worries that if the district doesn’t get the water it needs from the Bear River to fill Centennial Reservoir, it will divert more water from the Yuba River to fill it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilcox said the opposite will actually be true. Building Centennial Reservoir, he said, will allow the district to divert less water from the Yuba to serve its customers in Placer County, who could then be served by Bear River water stored in Centennial Reservoir instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, he said, the new reservoir could actually take pressure off the Yuba River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is likely to cost close to $500 million, Wilcox said, which includes the new bridge as well as a possible new hydroelectric unit at Rollins Reservoir, for which the district already has a federal permit. The district would use revenues from electricity sales to help offset construction costs. No rate increases will be needed to pay for the project, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not enough to say, ‘Well, dams are outdated; we hate dams,’” Wilcox said. “Dams are inherently destructive. I grant you that. But they really do provide some water-supply reliability. And our whole society is heavily dependent on infrastructure like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical issue for the project is water rights. Nevada Irrigation District actually conceived Centennial Dam in 1927, when it was known as Parker Dam. Wilcox says the State Water Resources Control Board has held water rights for the project “in trust” ever since. But the district does not hold title to the water, which must be granted by the state through a separate hearing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has changed since 1927 in California’s understanding of water availability. Estimates from that time of nature’s ability to provide water are now recognized as optimistic. It is also understood that the state has already \u003ca title=\"Link: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article2607102.html\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article2607102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">allocated\u003c/span>\u003c/a> much more water rights than there is actual water to divert. So it remains to be seen if 110,000 acre-feet of Bear River water is truly still available for a new reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelly Covert, spokeswoman for the Nisenan Tribe’s Nevada City Rancheria, wants the water district to explore every possible alternative before moving ahead with the reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the project will drown cultural sites the tribe has used for millennia. This includes former village sites, places where cremation rituals were performed and where tribal members still go today to harvest natural resources and connect with flowing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as “momilaj” (mome-lay) in the Nisenan language, flowing water is important to some tribal cultural practices, said Covert, who is also a member of the tribal council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">“I can’t believe that in 2016, our few remaining resources that we still have access to are in danger of being lost again,” she said. “It’s a big deal to change a flowing, rushing river into a big puddle. Water is a living thing, a living being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/01/09/new-california-dam-proposed-to-combat-climate-change-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For important news about the California drought, you can \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://waterdeeply.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8b78e9a34ff7443ec1e8c62c6&id=2947becb78\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the Water Deeply email list.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Americans have had one primary reason for building dams over the past century: capturing water for growth, whether on farms or in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now a new dam proposed on California’s Bear River offers another reason: adapting to climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.centennialreservoir.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Centennial dam\u003c/span>\u003c/a> project, proposed by the Nevada Irrigation District, is intended to capture rainfall at lower elevations to make up for declining snowpack at higher elevations. It would be built at an elevation of about 2,000 feet between two existing reservoirs on the Bear River—Rollins and Combie—in a region of the Sierra Nevada where winter rainfall can be prolific but snowfall is light.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district suffered in 2015, along with the rest of California, when winter snowpack nearly vanished completely. On April 1 of that year, at the end of winter, the state Department of Water Resources measured the Sierra snowpack at just \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2015/040115snowsurvey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">5 percent of average\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, the lowest ever recorded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1309876\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1138px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1309876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap.jpg\" alt=\"A map of the proposed Centennial Reservoir site near Meadow Vista, Calif. \" width=\"1138\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap.jpg 1138w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-160x202.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-800x1012.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-768x972.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-1020x1291.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-960x1215.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-240x304.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-375x475.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/01/CentennialDamMap-520x658.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1138px) 100vw, 1138px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A map of the proposed Centennial Reservoir site near Meadow Vista, Calif.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Nevada Irrigation District that year was forced to buy water from Pacific Gas \u003cspan class=\"amp\">&\u003c/span> Electric Co. out of Rollins Reservoir to serve its customers. That emergency supply—16,000 acre-feet (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">19.7\u003c/span> million cubic meters) – cost $1 million and might not be available next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district doesn’t want to have to go begging like that again, said Nick Wilcox, a member of the district’s board of directors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are being seriously impacted now by climate change, and will be more so in the future,” Wilcox said. “This is an attempt to create more mid-elevation storage to capture winter rains for use later in time. We need to control our own destiny.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climate change scenarios anticipate, as temperatures rise, more Sierra precipitation will fall as rain rather than snow. That means the mountain snowpack that California has relied upon historically to survive its hot summers may no longer be sufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">The Nevada Irrigation District conceived Centennial Dam in 1927, and water rights for the project have been held ‘in trust’ ever since.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Centennial proposal would store 110,000 acre-feet (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">135.7\u003c/span> million cubic meters) of water by building a dam 275 feet (84m) tall across the Bear River, near the town of Meadow Vista.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That would make it larger than any of the district’s existing \u003ca href=\"http://nidwater.com/water-service/about-your-water/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">10 reservoirs\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, and it would be one of the largest dams built in California in some time. For example, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ccwater.com/435/Los-Vaqueros-Project-History\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">Los Vaqueros Reservoir\u003c/span>\u003c/a>, built by Contra Costa Water District, was 100,000 acre-feet (\u003cspan class=\"caps\">123.3\u003c/span> million cubic meters) when first constructed in 1998 (and expanded to 160,000 acre-feet).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district hopes to release a draft environmental impact report on the project in 2017 and start construction for the district’s 100th anniversary in 2021—hence the “centennial” name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although it is hardly the first dam on the Bear River, the project has prompted a number of concerns among local residents and river advocates, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Less streamflow for imperiled fish downstream.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It would silence a 6-mile stretch of flowing water that residents enjoy, drowning the popular Bear River Campground operated by Placer County, as well as 25 homes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It will require a new bridge across the Bear River that could bring more traffic through Meadow Vista.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>It would flood dozens of American Indian cultural sites along the river.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It’s a 19th-century solution to a 21st-century problem,” said Traci Sheehan, coordinator of the Foothill Water Network, a coalition of local groups formed to oppose the dam. “Especially during a time of climate change, you need to be really thoughtful. We believe there are more cost-effective and less environmentally destructive alternatives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those is meadow restoration, Sheehan said. Sierra meadows have been degraded by more than a century of logging and livestock grazing, reducing their ability to store precipitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of agencies are working to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/environment/article13156424.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">restore meadows\u003c/span>\u003c/a> as a water supply solution. The Nevada Irrigation District could do the same thing, Sheehan said, on the 70,000 acres (28,328 hectares) of mountain watershed that help fill its water system today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another is conservation. Only 10 percent of the district’s customers are residential or business customers who consume treated water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rest are agricultural customers who receive untreated or “raw” water. This water is delivered in a 475-mile (764km) ditch system. Much of this dates to the Gold Rush and a lot of it is unlined, resulting in losses of 10 percent or more due to seepage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has a program to line or pipe its ditches “when feasible,” said general manager Rem Scherzinger. In practice, this means about 2 miles (3.2km) per year, according to a recent \u003ca href=\"http://nidwater.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/FINAL2015_Agricultural_Water_Mgmt_Plan_012916.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As any responsible agency should, we must explore and utilize all of our resources,” Scherzinger said. “These range from conservation and watershed management to leak loss prevention and the construction of storage facilities to try to protect our community. Centennial is one facet in a holistic approach to survive the coming reality of climate change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s treated water customers were required by the state to achieve 33 percent conservation last year because of the drought. They managed 30 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its raw water customers, however, had no conservation requirement because the state exempted agricultural water users. Although many of the district’s raw water customers are small farmers and ranchers, many are large residential property owners who use the water for other purposes, including landscaping and ponds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we want to make sure farmers get every ounce of water they need for their crops, we believe a lot of agricultural water is going to water the lawns of McMansions,” said Caleb Dardick, executive director of the South Yuba River Citizens League, a small but influential environmental group working to restore river flows for fish and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An unusual feature of the Nevada Irrigation District system is that it diverts substantial amounts of water from the Yuba River, through a tunnel, into the Bear River, to serve a significant share of its customers in both Nevada and Placer counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dardick worries that if the district doesn’t get the water it needs from the Bear River to fill Centennial Reservoir, it will divert more water from the Yuba River to fill it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilcox said the opposite will actually be true. Building Centennial Reservoir, he said, will allow the district to divert less water from the Yuba to serve its customers in Placer County, who could then be served by Bear River water stored in Centennial Reservoir instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, he said, the new reservoir could actually take pressure off the Yuba River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project is likely to cost close to $500 million, Wilcox said, which includes the new bridge as well as a possible new hydroelectric unit at Rollins Reservoir, for which the district already has a federal permit. The district would use revenues from electricity sales to help offset construction costs. No rate increases will be needed to pay for the project, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not enough to say, ‘Well, dams are outdated; we hate dams,’” Wilcox said. “Dams are inherently destructive. I grant you that. But they really do provide some water-supply reliability. And our whole society is heavily dependent on infrastructure like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A critical issue for the project is water rights. Nevada Irrigation District actually conceived Centennial Dam in 1927, when it was known as Parker Dam. Wilcox says the State Water Resources Control Board has held water rights for the project “in trust” ever since. But the district does not hold title to the water, which must be granted by the state through a separate hearing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has changed since 1927 in California’s understanding of water availability. Estimates from that time of nature’s ability to provide water are now recognized as optimistic. It is also understood that the state has already \u003ca title=\"Link: http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article2607102.html\" href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article2607102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">allocated\u003c/span>\u003c/a> much more water rights than there is actual water to divert. So it remains to be seen if 110,000 acre-feet of Bear River water is truly still available for a new reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shelly Covert, spokeswoman for the Nisenan Tribe’s Nevada City Rancheria, wants the water district to explore every possible alternative before moving ahead with the reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the project will drown cultural sites the tribe has used for millennia. This includes former village sites, places where cremation rituals were performed and where tribal members still go today to harvest natural resources and connect with flowing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Known as “momilaj” (mome-lay) in the Nisenan language, flowing water is important to some tribal cultural practices, said Covert, who is also a member of the tribal council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">“I can’t believe that in 2016, our few remaining resources that we still have access to are in danger of being lost again,” she said. “It’s a big deal to change a flowing, rushing river into a big puddle. Water is a living thing, a living being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2017/01/09/new-california-dam-proposed-to-combat-climate-change-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For important news about the California drought, you can \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://waterdeeply.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8b78e9a34ff7443ec1e8c62c6&id=2947becb78\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the Water Deeply email list.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>This weekend’s storm brought down an ancient tree, carved into a living tunnel more than a century ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Pioneer Cabin Tree,” a sequoia in Calaveras Big Trees State Park, saw horses and cars pass through it over the years. More recently, only hikers were allowed to walk through the massive tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, a powerful winter storm slammed into California and Nevada, prompting flooding and mudslides in some regions. The Associated Press reports it might be the biggest storm to hit the region in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, a volunteer at the state park reported that Pioneer Cabin had not survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The storm was just too much for it,” the Calaveras Big Tree Association wrote on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.facebook.com/calaverasbigtrees/posts/10154814678640135\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear exactly how old the tree was, but \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-live-winter-weather-california-iconic-sequoia-tree-in-california-state-1483942759-htmlstory.html\">the Los Angeles Times reports \u003c/a>that the trees in the state park are estimated to be more than 1,000 years old. Sequoias can live for \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/nature/sequoia-research.htm\">more than 3,000 years\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The iconic tree was one of a few tunneled-through sequoias in California. The most famous was the Wawona Tree, in Yosemite National Park; it fell during a winter storm in 1969 at an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/seki/faqtunnel.htm\">estimated age of 2,100 years\u003c/a>. The other remaining sequoia tunnels are dead or consist of logs on their side, the Forest Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_058751.pdf\">says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are still three coastal redwoods (taller and more slender than sequoias) with tunnels cut through them. They’re all operated by private companies, the Forest Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_058751.pdf\">says\u003c/a>, and still allow cars to drive through — one appeared in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4bfDgtc8M\">Geico ad.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”8UHBXgrNV41xRPsj2jROImmHlSuYbwQ1″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFGate.com \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Historic-Pioneer-Cabin-Tree-toppled-in-California-10844206.php\">spoke to Jim Allday\u003c/a>, the volunteer who reported Pioneer Cabin’s demise. He told the website that the tree “shattered” when it hit the ground on Sunday afternoon, and that people had walked through it as recently as that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local flooding might have been the reason the tree fell, SFGate reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"edTag\">\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>“When I went out there [Sunday afternoon], the trail was literally a river, the trail is washed out,” Allday said. “I could see the tree on the ground, it looked like it was laying in a pond or lake with a river running through it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree had been among the most popular features of the state park since the late 1800s. The tunnel had graffiti dating to the 1800s, when visitors were encouraged to etch their names into the bark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Allday, wife of Jim Allday and also a volunteer at the park, said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was barely alive, there was one branch alive at the top,” she said. “But it was very brittle and starting to lift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Tunnel trees were created in the 19th century to promote parks and inspire tourism. But cutting a tunnel through a living sequoia, of course, damages the tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tunnel trees had their time and place in the early history of our national parks,” the National Park Service has \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/seki/faqtunnel.htm\">written\u003c/a>. “But today sequoias which are standing healthy and whole are worth far more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11261685\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11261685\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-800x396.jpg\" alt=\"Iconic Sequoia Tree Felled by California Storm\" width=\"800\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-800x396.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-160x79.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-1020x504.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-1180x583.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-960x475.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-240x119.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-375x185.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic-520x257.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/NYPL_Historic.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An 1899 stereograph shows the Pioneer Cabin sequoia in Calaveras Grove, California. \u003ccite>(B.L. 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The other remaining sequoia tunnels are dead or consist of logs on their side, the Forest Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_058751.pdf\">says\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there are still three coastal redwoods (taller and more slender than sequoias) with tunnels cut through them. They’re all operated by private companies, the Forest Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsbdev3_058751.pdf\">says\u003c/a>, and still allow cars to drive through — one appeared in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4bfDgtc8M\">Geico ad.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFGate.com \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Historic-Pioneer-Cabin-Tree-toppled-in-California-10844206.php\">spoke to Jim Allday\u003c/a>, the volunteer who reported Pioneer Cabin’s demise. He told the website that the tree “shattered” when it hit the ground on Sunday afternoon, and that people had walked through it as recently as that morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local flooding might have been the reason the tree fell, SFGate reports:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"edTag\">\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>“When I went out there [Sunday afternoon], the trail was literally a river, the trail is washed out,” Allday said. “I could see the tree on the ground, it looked like it was laying in a pond or lake with a river running through it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tree had been among the most popular features of the state park since the late 1800s. The tunnel had graffiti dating to the 1800s, when visitors were encouraged to etch their names into the bark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joan Allday, wife of Jim Allday and also a volunteer at the park, said the tree had been weakening and leaning severely to one side for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was barely alive, there was one branch alive at the top,” she said. “But it was very brittle and starting to lift.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Tunnel trees were created in the 19th century to promote parks and inspire tourism. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:20 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Here's a bullet-point roundup of our not-quite-concluded Weekend of Storm. Our next regional weather concern is a storm forecast to roll into the region on Tuesday with the potential for more heavy rain over the already very thoroughly soaked North Bay counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flood impacts:\u003c/strong> Minor flooding -- the kind that covers roads and farmland, but doesn't force wholesale evacuations or cause widespread damage -- occurred all over the Bay Area. Many roads around Sonoma County were affected, and U.S. 101 was closed for a time near Windsor. Rapid rises on the Napa River caused limited local flooding in part of the valley north of the city of Napa. Flooded roads at the northern end of the valley prompted the Calistoga school district to cancel classes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest concern going into Monday are conditions along the lower Russian River. With the river expected to crest several feet above flood stage by midday Monday, Sonoma County officials issued a voluntary evacuation advisory for those living in low-lying sections of Guerneville and Monte Rio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel impacts:\u003c/strong> Slides and falling trees shut down both main highways and rural roads throughout the Bay Area and Northern California on Sunday, and some closures could last for days. One notable example on the Peninsula was this one, on Interstate 280:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jeffgreenberg/status/818227196279930880\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full or partial closures were also recorded on: Highway 17, the main route between San Jose and Santa Cruz, because of a fallen tree near the Highway 35 junction; westbound Interstate 80 near Truckee, due to a mudslide; eastbound I-80 near Colfax, due to downed power lines; Highway 49 near Nevada City and Downieville, due to slides; Highway 20 near the Interstate 80 junction, because of flooding (slide). (For more, see \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans Road Conditions lookup\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Power impacts:\u003c/strong> Sunday night, PG&E said 478,000 customers systemwide had lost power during the course of the windy deluge, and 66,000 were still without electricity. In the Bay Area, a total of 240,000 customers lost power at some point during Stormy Sunday, with about 17,000 still in the dark late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Precipitation totals:\u003c/strong> One catches a slight hint of \"really -- \u003cem>that\u003c/em> was a monster storm?\" in some of the online commentary about the weekend's storm. True -- it was not a cataclysm, and it didn't deliver all of the gaudy precipitation totals we have been talking about. But it wasn't a meteorological wimpfest either. Some rain numbers for the 48 hours ending at 7 p.m. Sunday:\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nVenado (western Sonoma County): \u003c/strong>12.31 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Umunhum (Santa Cruz Mountains):\u003c/strong> 8.67 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ben Lomond (Santa Cruz Mountains)\u003c/strong>: 7.00 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Tamalpais:\u003c/strong> 4.93 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Diablo:\u003c/strong> 3.97 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills)\u003c/strong>: 3.56 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban totals include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Rafael:\u003c/strong> 4.80 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Gatos:\u003c/strong> 3.71 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa:\u003c/strong> 3.52 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>St. Mary's College (Moraga):\u003c/strong> 3.22 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sacramento:\u003c/strong> 3.17 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 2.63 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Francisco:\u003c/strong> 2.03 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Concord:\u003c/strong> 1.89 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland: \u003c/strong>1.83 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Livermore:\u003c/strong> 1.50 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Jose Airport:\u003c/strong> 1.28 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:50 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Well, we here at the Berkeley headquarters of KQED's Storm Center 2017 are in full catch-up mode for the time being. Here's our Storify rounding up social media and online news reports of the storm's impact this afternoon (and see our earlier updates below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/tracking-northern-california-s-big-weekend-storm/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Two major themes for the storm in the Bay Area so far:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theme 1:\u003c/strong> Lots of local roadway flooding and rising streams -- not surprising given the downpours we see falling on saturated soil all across the region. Take a look at the Napa Valley, for instance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SusieSteimle/status/818209693503864832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding seems particularly acute in Sonoma County. Here's an example (and public service announcement) posted by the San Francisco Chronicle's Demian Bulwa:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/818173461046509568\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news for the North Bay is that the worst of the storm appears to have abated. Periods of rain will continue into Monday -- but not serious, sustained intense rain. Meantime, the main focus of the storm has shifted south, where flooding concerns continue in parts of southern/eastern Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theme 2:\u003c/strong> Lots of power outages, with PG&E reporting more than 100,000 customers without power in its service area as of early Sunday afternoon. A quick tally of the hundreds of outages the company is reporting shows more than 40,000 Bay Area customers without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E, Bay Area communities with 1,000 or more customers currently suffering outages early Sunday afternoon include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch: 4,934\u003cbr>\nBodega Bay: 1,746\u003cbr>\nDaly City: 4,060\u003cbr>\nEl Granada: 2,033\u003cbr>\nGuerneville: 1,249\u003cbr>\nLarkspur: 2,935\u003cbr>\nOrinda: 1,870\u003cbr>\nSan Bruno: 1,175\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco: 5,401\u003cbr>\nSan Geronimo: 2,684\u003cbr>\nSan Jose: 6,557\u003cbr>\nSebastopol: 2,981\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major outages outside the Bay Area include about 7,000 customers in the communities of Pine Grove and Pioneer in Amador County, about 3,500 customers in Twain Harte (Sonora County) and 2,500 in the town of Mendocino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 7:55 a.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> The big storm forecasters have told us for days we could expect this weekend swept across the Bay Area late Saturday night and was causing a mess by early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main area of concern at daybreak is southern and central Sonoma County. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Santa Rosa and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office reported that U.S. 101 was closed in both directions at Windsor, just north of Santa Rosa, and that at least two motorists were rescued from vehicles near Old Redwood Highway and Eastside Road, on Windsor's northern end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waters rose in the North Bay as the dense plume of moisture feeding the storm swung north through the region overnight. After something of a break in the deluge for some areas Sunday morning, the heaviest rain is expected to swing south again before finally tapering off late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E reported \u003ca href=\"https://m.pge.com/?WT.pgeac=Alerts_Storms-Outages-Jan17#outages\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of power outages\u003c/a> throughout Northern California affecting tens of thousands of customers, including 21,000 in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most extensive Bay Area outage early Sunday appeared to be in Daly City and adjacent areas of San Francisco, where nearly 6,000 customers were reported without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notes from the nine-county Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center says the Napa River will crest above flood stage in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\">St. Helena \u003c/a> and just at flood stage in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\">city of Napa\u003c/a> later Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUDC1\" target=\"_blank\">The Guadalupe River\u003c/a> is also expected to reach flood stage in San Jose Sunday afternoon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Russian River is expected to reach flood stage early Monday morning and crest later in the day with some inundation forecast \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">in Guerneville\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As far as rainfall is concerned, the National Weather Service commented in its early morning forecast discussion that overnight rainfall totals are somewhat less than expected. The highest 12-hour rain totals through 7 a.m. Sunday are mostly where we'd expect, in the northwest Sonoma County hills (4.60 inches at Venado) and Santa Cruz Mountains (2.53 inches at Ben Lomond).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more data, see \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/?product=twelvehourP&product2=&id2=twelvehourP&zoom=8&lat=37.50354438495198&lng=-122.36512518001902&time=undefined&PNGtypeID=undefined&cursorReadout=true&showElev=true&useEst=true&obsTempsChgInvert=false&comboLink=Fcst&CNRFC=true&STATES=false&COUNTIES=false&RIVERS=false&LAKES=false&BASINS=false&BURNAREAS1=false&NATIONALPARKS=false&ElevMax=15000&ElevMin=-500&QPEpointMin=0.00&obsTempspointMax=130&obsTempspointMin=-30&obsTempsChgpointMax=40&obsTempsChgpointMin=-40&SWEpointMin=0&SWEChgMax=20.1&SWEChgMin=-20.1&SDpointMax=400&SDpointMin=0&SDChgMax=100.1&SDChgMin=-100.1&waterTempspointMax=110&waterTempspointMin=25&peakDatesMax=9/30&peakDatesMin=4/1&opacity=65&animateradarrefl=false&animateQPE6hr=false&animateQPF6hr=false&animateQPF24hr=false&animateTempObs6hr=false&animateMaxTFcstMaxT=false&animateMinTFcstMinT=false&animateFzLevel6hrObs=false&animateFzLevel6hrFcst=false&speedradarrefl=-200&speedQPE6hr=-500&speedQPF6hr=-500&speedQPF24hr=-500&speedTempObs6hr=-500&speedMaxTFcstMaxT=-500&speedMinTFcstMinT=-500&speedFzLevel6hrObs=-500&speedFzLevel6hrFcst=-500&cat1=true&cat2=true&cat3=true&cat4=true&cat5=true&cat6=true&cat7=true&precipToggle=precipValues&dataTable=false&mapBG=esriTopo\" target=\"_blank\">the river forecast center's rainfall map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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