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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Daniel Potter\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/168321260&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147932\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/scottriver.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147932 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/scottriver.jpg\" alt=\"The Scott River’s flow depends on snow melting off the nearby mountains, but the last few winters haven’t delivered. In places, the river disappears underground. 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(Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s Supreme Court is being pressed to take up a case that could dramatically alter oversight for groundwater, building on a landmark water rights ruling the court made a generation ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, a Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled that rural Siskiyou County in Northern California must consider people downstream who depend on the Scott River before issuing permits to drill wells and pump groundwater nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the high court accepts the case and upholds that ruling, the result could be new controls on groundwater pumping -- in addition to those contained in legislation just signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers note the case is particularly timely given the drought, which has forced many farmers to depend on ever more water pumped from underground. In effect, both sides want to skip a few steps in the appeals process, thereby speeding up a definitive answer from the state’s highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147933 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the case is the Scott River, which runs through Siskiyou County and feeds into the Klamath not far from the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a map, the Scott River runs through Tom Menne’s farm just west of the town of Fort Jones. In reality, the sad patch of rocks next to Menne’s alfalfa fields has scarcely resembled a river at all this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the water’s still flowing here. It just goes underground through here,” Menne said, crunching over gravel where the bottom of the river would be. “In different areas you go, you’ll see it come back up. But there’s just little puddles now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menne has lived on this farm most of his life, working the land like his father before him. He raised his kids to help out in turn. But they’re in college now, and Menne says he’s told them not to depend on the farm being there forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someday there’s not going to be a farm here,\" he said. \"Regulations will make it so hard to make a living that there just won’t be any reason to want to farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfalfa is used mainly for cattle feed and is notoriously thirsty. To slake it, Menne pumps water from underground through giant sprinkler rigs. The energy cost runs to the tens of thousands of dollars a year, which he says is a powerful disincentive against waste. Even so, one of his shallower wells was running dry, slurping loudly like the industrial-grade equivalent of a straw at the bottom of a near-empty cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Menne and his family have grown alfalfa in the Scott Valley for decades, but he’s warned his kids they might not be in the farm business forever. 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It’s costing me money, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston Harris, who alongside Menne has opposed calls for outside regulation, says, “It’s very easy for people to point at a dry riverbed and see sprinklers going in the background and just say, 'Oh geez, the farmers are completely dewatering the system.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris heads the Scott River Water Trust and says the area makes for a convenient legal testing ground, in which farmers are scapegoated for problems that are much more complex. The endgame, Harris says with a degree of inevitability, would be new rules across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one potential outcome, if the California Supreme Court were to uphold the lower court’s July ruling dealing with safeguards for water in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a landmark 1983 case, the state Supreme Court imposed limits on how much water Los Angeles could divert from streams feeding into Mono Lake, under what’s known as the Public Trust Doctrine. But that ruling dealt with surface water and left unclear to what extent groundwater is also protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Frank, a law professor at UC Davis, argues the Public Trust Doctrine “can and does, in my opinion, limit the unfettered ability of landowners to extract groundwater for their personal consumption.” Frank is co-counsel alongside the Environmental Law Foundation in the 2010 suit targeting groundwater pumping in Siskiyou County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2W0bWIFQB99hUiWytknnyBpi1ct0Bam9\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current drought, he says, has only exacerbated the need for a definitive ruling, and soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the luxury anymore of treating water as purely private property, a private resource. In my opinion, that’s never been the law -- that’s never been sound policy. But having courts underscore that, emphasize that and make that principle an abiding part of water policy and water law is critically important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lawyers are careful to say that however the Supreme Court might rule if it takes up the Scott River case, the decision wouldn’t necessarily safeguard every drop of water beneath California -- only what’s tied to surface water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in the Scott River, there is a clear linkage -- a scientific linkage, an engineering linkage -- between surface water flows and subterranean flow. ... In some cases, that linkage is either uncertain or doesn’t exist as a matter of engineering fact,” Frank says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147939\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147939\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson.jpg\" alt=\"Crystal Robinson, a biologist Quartz Valley Indian Reservation, acknowledges the area’s farmers have been dealt a tough hand. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson.jpg 638w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Robinson-480x640.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crystal Robinson, a biologist at the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation, acknowledges the area’s farmers have been dealt a tough hand. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the state’s legal apparatus grinds forward, farmers along the Scott River have their fingers crossed for a wet winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others are watching the river's condition, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal Robinson is a biologist with the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation and has also worked for the Karuk Tribe downstream. She backs more oversight of groundwater pumping near the Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on a bridge near where the underground flow comes to the surface for a short stretch, she pointed toward a couple of lethargic fish, identifying them as steelhead. The water was shallow and not especially pristine, but seemed something of a respite from the summer heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the fish, Robinson said, perhaps not:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The river is coming out of the ground not too far upstream from here, and we’ve got this section of habitat, and it’s going to go subsurface a few miles from here. So this is their spot,” Robinson said: In effect, the fish were trapped. “They’re trying to just chill out and hope that the river comes back soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not unlike a few farmers nearby.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers note the case is particularly timely given the drought, which has forced many farmers to depend on ever more water pumped from underground. In effect, both sides want to skip a few steps in the appeals process, thereby speeding up a definitive answer from the state’s highest court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147933\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147933 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg\" alt=\"(David Pierce/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map.jpg 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/Scott-river-map-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(David Pierce/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the heart of the case is the Scott River, which runs through Siskiyou County and feeds into the Klamath not far from the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a map, the Scott River runs through Tom Menne’s farm just west of the town of Fort Jones. In reality, the sad patch of rocks next to Menne’s alfalfa fields has scarcely resembled a river at all this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the water’s still flowing here. It just goes underground through here,” Menne said, crunching over gravel where the bottom of the river would be. “In different areas you go, you’ll see it come back up. But there’s just little puddles now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menne has lived on this farm most of his life, working the land like his father before him. He raised his kids to help out in turn. But they’re in college now, and Menne says he’s told them not to depend on the farm being there forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someday there’s not going to be a farm here,\" he said. \"Regulations will make it so hard to make a living that there just won’t be any reason to want to farm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfalfa is used mainly for cattle feed and is notoriously thirsty. To slake it, Menne pumps water from underground through giant sprinkler rigs. The energy cost runs to the tens of thousands of dollars a year, which he says is a powerful disincentive against waste. Even so, one of his shallower wells was running dry, slurping loudly like the industrial-grade equivalent of a straw at the bottom of a near-empty cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147936\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147936\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Menne and his family have grown alfalfa in the Scott Valley for decades, but he’s warned his kids they might not be in the farm business forever. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne.jpg 850w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/menne-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Menne and his family have grown alfalfa in the Scott Valley for decades, but he’s warned his kids they might not be in the farm business forever. (Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The reason for that, Menne says, is a lot bigger than his farm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Scott River’s flow depends on snowmelt from nearby mountains, but the last few winters haven’t delivered much. “The river was going to go dry anyway. We had no winter. It’s a drought. I didn’t cause the drought, I’m part of the drought. It’s costing me money, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston Harris, who alongside Menne has opposed calls for outside regulation, says, “It’s very easy for people to point at a dry riverbed and see sprinklers going in the background and just say, 'Oh geez, the farmers are completely dewatering the system.' ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris heads the Scott River Water Trust and says the area makes for a convenient legal testing ground, in which farmers are scapegoated for problems that are much more complex. The endgame, Harris says with a degree of inevitability, would be new rules across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s one potential outcome, if the California Supreme Court were to uphold the lower court’s July ruling dealing with safeguards for water in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a landmark 1983 case, the state Supreme Court imposed limits on how much water Los Angeles could divert from streams feeding into Mono Lake, under what’s known as the Public Trust Doctrine. But that ruling dealt with surface water and left unclear to what extent groundwater is also protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Frank, a law professor at UC Davis, argues the Public Trust Doctrine “can and does, in my opinion, limit the unfettered ability of landowners to extract groundwater for their personal consumption.” Frank is co-counsel alongside the Environmental Law Foundation in the 2010 suit targeting groundwater pumping in Siskiyou County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current drought, he says, has only exacerbated the need for a definitive ruling, and soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the luxury anymore of treating water as purely private property, a private resource. In my opinion, that’s never been the law -- that’s never been sound policy. But having courts underscore that, emphasize that and make that principle an abiding part of water policy and water law is critically important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And lawyers are careful to say that however the Supreme Court might rule if it takes up the Scott River case, the decision wouldn’t necessarily safeguard every drop of water beneath California -- only what’s tied to surface water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think in the Scott River, there is a clear linkage -- a scientific linkage, an engineering linkage -- between surface water flows and subterranean flow. ... 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(Daniel Potter/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the state’s legal apparatus grinds forward, farmers along the Scott River have their fingers crossed for a wet winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And others are watching the river's condition, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crystal Robinson is a biologist with the Quartz Valley Indian Reservation and has also worked for the Karuk Tribe downstream. She backs more oversight of groundwater pumping near the Scott.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing on a bridge near where the underground flow comes to the surface for a short stretch, she pointed toward a couple of lethargic fish, identifying them as steelhead. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Isabel Angell and Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12048_photo.JPG-alt_145-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the San Francisco Fire Department prepares an engine that's heading to the King Fire, northeast of Placerville. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12048_photo.JPG-alt_145-640x480.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12048_photo.JPG-alt_145-1028x771.jpg 1028w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/RS12048_photo.JPG-alt_145-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of the San Francisco Fire Department prepares an engine that's heading to the King Fire near Placerville. (Isabel Angell/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">A contingent of Bay Area firefighters is joining the massive force that's combating a huge, fast-moving blaze burning in the Sierra near the main road from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1059\" target=\"_blank\">King Fire\u003c/a>, which started last Saturday night, has burned about 18,500 acres near U.S. 50 north and east of the community of Pollock Pines. The fire is 5 percent contained. Cal Fire reports that more than 1,632 residences in and around the town of 7,000 are threatened, with 800 other structures in harm's way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The area the fire has covered in just four days, equivalent to 29 square miles, is a little more than half the area of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">More than 2,500 firefighters from around the state are battling the blaze. A strike team from the Bay Area headed east Wednesday afternoon and they expect to be fighting the fire by this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"I think we all know that this is probably one of the most serious fire seasons we've had in over 30 years,\" said Tom Siragusa, assistant fire chief in the San Francisco Fire Department and a strike team leader. \"I worked for the Cal Fire in 1976 and '77, the two last years of this type of drought, and [there were] very similar conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"right\">\u003cimg src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2014/09/17/fire.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\u003ch3>'On one hand it's very exciting, but you don't realize how exhausted you can be at the end of these opportunities.'\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>-- Tom Siragusa,\u003cbr>\nSFFD strike team leader\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The Bay Area strike team consists of units from a number of different departments. The San Francisco Fire Department is sending a single four-person engine. Two engines from San Mateo County and two from Marin County will also join the strike team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"It's an excursion, one I've done many times before,\" Siragusa said. \"I don't expect anything other than to go to work, and take care of the rest of the 21 members of the strike team.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">He says that working on a strike team is an adrenaline-producing experience, but by the end of a fire workers are thoroughly exhausted. The group from San Francisco has committed to 15 days, but they may do less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Firefighters who want to join the strike team have to undergo a lot of testing, Siragusa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\"They have extra-special training to be able to go out on these strike teams, and it's not just anybody that's in the fire service that can do this -- or wants to do this,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>This post includes reporting from the Associated Press.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[vimeo 106178808 w=640 h=360]\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 a.m.: \u003c/strong>Cal Fire spokesman Dennis Mathisen confirms that 20 of the 21 structures burned in the Courtney Fire south of Yosemite National Park on Sunday were homes. Mathisen also says the fire was definitely human-caused -- either accident or arson -- though the exact origin hasn't yet been pinned down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is still threatening about 400 homes near Bass Lake, just northeast of the town of Oakhurst. This is the third fire to have broken out near the town, located at the junction of Highways 41 and 49, in the past month. The first of those, the Junction Fire, burned eight homes. The cause of all three blazes is under investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 a.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> A few updated numbers on some of the fires burning throughout the state:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4108/\" target=\"_blank\">The King Fire\u003c/a>, just north of U.S. 50 near Pollock Pines, is now reported to have burned 3,900 acres and is 10 percent contained. The fire is burning to the north and east of the unincorporated community of 7,000, and firefighters are expected to benefit from cooler, more humid weather Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in the backcountry of Yosemite National Park has burned 4,772 acres, park officials say, the same as reported Sunday. The statistical change: The fire is now reported as 80 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing new to report on the weekend's most destructive blaze, the Courtney Fire near Oakhurst and the resort area of Bass Lake south of Yosemite. The fire, featured in the video above, has reportedly burned 320 acres and is 20 percent contained. It burned about 21 structures, including an undetermined number of homes, soon after it started around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. More details on the destruction are in our original post, below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Sunday night):\u003c/strong> State and federal firefighting agencies scrambled to contain a series of blazes that broke out over the weekend, including a fast-moving fire that destroyed or damaged 21 structures near the southern gateway to Yosemite and another that swept through several square miles of forest near the main highway to Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and the Madera County Sheriff's Office announced late Sunday that \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Courtney_Fire_9-14-14_2100.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the Courtney Fire\u003c/a> near Oakhurst had burned nearly two dozen buildings -- no exact count on the number of homes involved -- as it sped across 320 acres Sunday afternoon. The fire, which forced residents out of about 400 homes and resorts at Bass Lake, is about 20 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/14/4123537_wildfire-near-oakhurst-prompts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee detailed\u003c/a> what was known of the damage late Sunday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire Battalion Chief Chris Christopherson said he believed more than 10 homes had been lost, the majority off of Road 426 near Manzanita Drive on the crest of the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is gut-wrenching,\" Christopherson said. \"It makes you sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Cunningham was among the unlucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, 72, was home when he smelled the fire and saw the orange sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham told his wife there was a fire coming. Then he turned and saw the black smoke coming from the other side of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I looked back and saw our backyard was burning,\" he said. \"So we didn't take much time. She drove one car, I drove the other car and we just left.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple grabbed what they could: one suitcase each, a computer and some business records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo albums, handmade furniture, a 1930s piano, tools and everything else stayed behind and burned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Well to the north, near the unincorporated community of Pollock Pines on U.S. 50, a fire that started as a 20-acre blaze Saturday blew up to 3,000 acres by late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The King Fire spread through rough, heavily forested terrain just north of the town of 7,000, about 50 miles northeast of downtown Sacramento. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office ordered about 120 homes evacuated in the fire zone and advised residents of about 400 other homes that they should leave. As of late Sunday, there were no reports of residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 800 firefighters were on the lines Sunday, with many more expected during the day Monday. The fire was 10 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very hot, dry weather and the effects of the state's prolonged drought played a big part in the fire's rapid spread Sunday, Cal Fire officials said. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/14/6705663/wildfires-remain-active-in-nevada.html\" target=\"_blank\">From the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Conditions are awful,” said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “Because of the fuel in here after three years of drought, it’s burning really well. ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Tolmachoff’s advice to residents: “If you are in the path, get out and get out early. It’s moving fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will be closed Monday for the “safety of our children, staff and our families,” said a notice on the Pollock Pines Elementary School District website. Pinewood Elementary School, which is close to the blaze, is being used as a staging area for fire suppression equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of roads also have been shut down because of the fire, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The good news on the King Fire: Forecasters are calling for cooler weather with a chance of showers on Monday, which should slow the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Black_Fire_9-14-14_PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out in Mendocino County north of Ukiah on Saturday, had burned 417 acres and was 50 percent contained as of late Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Dog Bar Fire, in Nevada County, had burned 247 acres and was 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/GULCHUPDATESEPT-14-2014PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Gulch Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out last Wednesday northeast of Redding, was 95 percent contained after burning 1,300 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\">Meadow Fire in the Yosemite National Park backcountry\u003c/a> is 50 percent contained and has burned 4,772 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And finally, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, the state's largest so far this year, has now burned across about 112,000 acres in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. The fire is said to be 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing new to report on the weekend's most destructive blaze, the Courtney Fire near Oakhurst and the resort area of Bass Lake south of Yosemite. The fire, featured in the video above, has reportedly burned 320 acres and is 20 percent contained. It burned about 21 structures, including an undetermined number of homes, soon after it started around 1:40 p.m. Sunday. More details on the destruction are in our original post, below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Sunday night):\u003c/strong> State and federal firefighting agencies scrambled to contain a series of blazes that broke out over the weekend, including a fast-moving fire that destroyed or damaged 21 structures near the southern gateway to Yosemite and another that swept through several square miles of forest near the main highway to Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Fire and the Madera County Sheriff's Office announced late Sunday that \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Courtney_Fire_9-14-14_2100.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the Courtney Fire\u003c/a> near Oakhurst had burned nearly two dozen buildings -- no exact count on the number of homes involved -- as it sped across 320 acres Sunday afternoon. The fire, which forced residents out of about 400 homes and resorts at Bass Lake, is about 20 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/14/4123537_wildfire-near-oakhurst-prompts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fresno Bee detailed\u003c/a> what was known of the damage late Sunday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Cal Fire Battalion Chief Chris Christopherson said he believed more than 10 homes had been lost, the majority off of Road 426 near Manzanita Drive on the crest of the hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is gut-wrenching,\" Christopherson said. \"It makes you sick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jon Cunningham was among the unlucky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham, 72, was home when he smelled the fire and saw the orange sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cunningham told his wife there was a fire coming. Then he turned and saw the black smoke coming from the other side of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My wife and I looked back and saw our backyard was burning,\" he said. \"So we didn't take much time. She drove one car, I drove the other car and we just left.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple grabbed what they could: one suitcase each, a computer and some business records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photo albums, handmade furniture, a 1930s piano, tools and everything else stayed behind and burned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Well to the north, near the unincorporated community of Pollock Pines on U.S. 50, a fire that started as a 20-acre blaze Saturday blew up to 3,000 acres by late Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The King Fire spread through rough, heavily forested terrain just north of the town of 7,000, about 50 miles northeast of downtown Sacramento. The El Dorado County Sheriff's Office ordered about 120 homes evacuated in the fire zone and advised residents of about 400 other homes that they should leave. As of late Sunday, there were no reports of residences destroyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 800 firefighters were on the lines Sunday, with many more expected during the day Monday. The fire was 10 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Very hot, dry weather and the effects of the state's prolonged drought played a big part in the fire's rapid spread Sunday, Cal Fire officials said. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/09/14/6705663/wildfires-remain-active-in-nevada.html\" target=\"_blank\">From the Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“Conditions are awful,” said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. “Because of the fuel in here after three years of drought, it’s burning really well. ...”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>... Tolmachoff’s advice to residents: “If you are in the path, get out and get out early. It’s moving fast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools will be closed Monday for the “safety of our children, staff and our families,” said a notice on the Pollock Pines Elementary School District website. Pinewood Elementary School, which is close to the blaze, is being used as a staging area for fire suppression equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of roads also have been shut down because of the fire, according to Cal Fire officials.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The good news on the King Fire: Forecasters are calling for cooler weather with a chance of showers on Monday, which should slow the fire's spread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in California:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/Black_Fire_9-14-14_PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Black Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out in Mendocino County north of Ukiah on Saturday, had burned 417 acres and was 50 percent contained as of late Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Dog Bar Fire, in Nevada County, had burned 247 acres and was 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/2014/factsheets/GULCHUPDATESEPT-14-2014PM.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The Gulch Fire\u003c/a>, which broke out last Wednesday northeast of Redding, was 95 percent contained after burning 1,300 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\">Meadow Fire in the Yosemite National Park backcountry\u003c/a> is 50 percent contained and has burned 4,772 acres.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>And finally, \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\">the Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a>, the state's largest so far this year, has now burned across about 112,000 acres in Siskiyou County south of the Klamath River. The fire is said to be 55 percent contained.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:10 a.m. \u003c/strong>Yosemite National Park says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.recreation.gov/wildernessAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=79064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Dome Cables\u003c/a>, which hikers use to ascend the rock formation, will reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More info from the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trail to Half Dome via Little Yosemite Valley is open to day-use only. No overnight camping in any areas impacted by the fire is permitted. All other area closures, including Little Yosemite Valley, Sunrise High Sierra Camp area, Echo Valley, and Clouds Rest, are still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visible smoke in the early morning hours may be present in and around Yosemite Valley and the Half Dome Hike. Visitors who are sensitive to smoke should consider rescheduling their hike to Half Dome or their visit to Yosemite National Park. Visitors are urged to check the park’s website to get updated information on the smoke impacts to the park. Updated information can be found at\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose\"> www.nps.gov/yose\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\"> http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kari Cobb, a park ranger at Yosemite, told KQED’s Ted Goldberg that an investigative team has determined that the fire was caused by embers from a previous blaze, which park officials had opted to let burn. Cobb said that decision was made because the original fire was burning in a wilderness area, with no threat to structures or people. Also, it had been a while since the area had been impacted by a fire, which can be beneficial to the ecosystem, Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire was first reported Sunday around noon, Cobb said, firefighters were not able to enter the area until late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning; until then, all efforts at containment occurred from the air. “The fire’s actually located in wilderness,” Cobb said, “about 10-12 miles from the nearest trailhead. It’s a really steep hike to get up there. We needed to find crews that could handle carrying all that weight up such a steep trail and so far back there. …. Making sure everyone was safe and everyone was prepared took a couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another fire has broken out northeast of Redding. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California is threatening more than 100 homes, at least some of which are under mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire about 15 miles northeast of Redding in Shasta County had burned through nearly 2 square miles of grass, brush and oak timber as of Thursday morning, a day after it began. It was 15 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which began as a vehicle fire, was fueled by dry, gusty winds and 100-degree temperatures. Fire crews were expecting the same conditions Thursday and have called in hundreds of additional firefighters to battle the blaze.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulch Fire\u003c/a> started last night and is 15 percent contained. The Redding Record Searchlight has \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/fire-burning-in-jones-valley-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park is now spread over 4,906 acres as of about 8:30 a.m. today. The fire, in a wilderness area within Little Yosemite Valley, east of Half Dome, is 23 percent contained. The National Wildlife Coordinating Group’s InciWeb site reports little growth in the fire overnight. The highest priority is to open the trail to Half Dome, the site reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One obstacle to firefighting efforts: bears. “Bears continue to be a major issue with fire crew safety in spike camps and along the fire line. Extensive measures are being taken not to attract bears to the food and other supplies. Trash is being backhauled daily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a> in the Klamath National Forest has expanded to 107,359 acres and is 30 percent contained. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/klamath/alerts-notices/?aid=24768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire-related closures here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 9 \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area-related the fires up north is still in effect throughout today. You can check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5&mapcenter=0&tabs=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current air quality for all of California here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Some updated numbers on the backcountry fire burning in Yosemite National Park. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says the fire has burned 4,532 acres and is 10 percent contained with about 400 firefighters and eight helicopters working to limit its spread. The fire’s growth has slowed dramatically since midday Tuesday, when it was reported to be about 4,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”QpAB6FD5ZxHSPpOCEUchynMExMT88O4B”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Cobb also said that the impact of smoke in the park is expected to be much less than on Tuesday, when a thick haze shrouded Yosemite Valley. The park remains open to visitors, though several trails east and northeast of Yosemite Valley are closed, including those in the Echo Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Sunrise Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Merced River corridor to Merced Lake Ranger Station, and the Sunrise Trail to Clouds Rest from Tenaya Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\">a smoke advisory\u003c/a>, as the Yosemite fire and a much larger blaze in far Northern California continue to emit thick plumes into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service says \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> — a combination of the lightning-sparked Frying Pan and Falkstein fires — is now 105,198 acres and 30 percent contained. Windy weather Monday and Tuesday pushed the blaze rapidly to the east and southeast and prompted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office to issue new evacuation \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO-20140909_MandatoryEvacuationNotice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orders\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO_20140909PIOEvacuationAdvisoryNoticeUpdatedHCNorthandSouth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisories\u003c/a>. During the course of the fire, which started Aug. 11, it has threatened hundreds of homes and triggered a series of evacuation alerts. So far, eight structures have been destroyed or damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further details, by way of the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerry Greene, a spokeswoman for the fire in the Klamath National Forest, says two homes were destroyed this week when winds fueled the blaze. Another two homes were destroyed earlier. The fire has also damaged or destroyed four other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesman Rudy Evenson says 274 residents are under mandatory evacuation orders, and at least that many people have been told to be ready to leave home if the fire worsens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you’re not conversant with Northern California geography, the fire is burning about 20 to 30 miles west of Interstate 5 and 15 miles or so south of the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the smoldering blaze that roared to life in the national park’s backcountry has grown to more than 4,400 acres, up from about 2,600 Monday afternoon. The fire is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remains open, Yosemite Valley and other areas are experiencing heavy smoke. The blaze, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/Meadow-Fire-Update-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed the Meadow Fire\u003c/a>, grew out of a lightning strike on Aug. 16. Yosemite fire managers had been monitoring the small fire that resulted but did not attempt to contain it. Before it blew up during windy, dry conditions Sunday, it had consumed just 20 acres in three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far, far to the north, meantime, the long-running \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> has grown to nearly 104,000 acres and continues to defy efforts to keep it from spreading. Brisk northwesterly winds on Monday sparked spot fires on the blaze’s eastern and southeastern perimeter and prompted \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4078/24321/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new evacuation orders \u003c/a>for areas near the Scott River south of where it flows into the Klamath River. Despite the massive acreage burned so far, in an area south of the Klamath and west of Interstate 5 near the Oregon border, just two structures have been reported destroyed or damaged to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,500 personnel are fighting the blaze, which is 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the fire that flared up Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 185 visitors from trails in relatively remote parts of the park, has burned nearly 2,600 acres. They also say the weather Monday — less windy and somewhat more humid than Sunday — should slow the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday that officials decided to pick up about 100 people in the Little Yosemite Valley area and another 85 from Half Dome because they wanted to clear the fire zone as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take all those individuals several hours to come out of the backcountry, come out of the location where the fire is,” Cobb told KQED’s Ted Goldberg. “We wanted to make sure our visitors were safe and that we weren’t putting them in a position where they were unable to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb also said that at least some of those evacuated seemed to get a thrill out of their once-in-a-lifetime Yosemite chopper flight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was actually able to talk to some of those people that came off the helicopter, and most of them were really excited that they got to have a helicopter ride in Yosemite. It’s not every day you get to fly over Yosemite like that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lightning ignited the blaze, called the Meadow Fire, on Aug. 16. National Park Service fire managers elected to monitor the fire instead of immediately suppress it. The fire spread very slowly, and last Thursday it was reported to have burned through 19 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park says a force of 120 firefighters is combating the backcountry blaze, aided by seven helicopters and two fixed-wing airplanes. Trails near the Half Dome area, the Little Yosemite Valley area, Merced Lake and Sunrise High Sierra Camps, Clouds Rest and Echo Valley are closed. The trail to Half Dome, east of Nevada Fall and including the cables to the peak, is closed through at least Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, based mainly on Associated Press reports:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A small backcountry wildfire burning for weeks in Yosemite National Park burst to life on Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 100 park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday the Meadow Fire, which was started by lightning in mid-August, had grown to 2,500 acres from a reported 700 Sunday evening. The fire is at 0 percent containment. Some of those evacuated from the fire zone on Sunday included hikers who had climbed the park’s iconic Half Dome peak, rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley. Others had to be airlifted from campgrounds and hiking trails in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads into the park are open, but several trails are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had monitored the lightning-sparked fire that started Aug. 16 between Little Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, and last Thursday the park reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire had covered about 19 acres\u003c/a>. But the flames were fueled by strong winds and high temperatures Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got unbelievable crazy winds and unexpected hot conditions,” Tim Ludington, the park’s chief of roads and trails, told the Fresno Bee. “The fire behavior totally changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/07/4110706_yosemite-hikers-evacuated-as-backcountry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While the fire was originally allowed to burn for forest restoration and other objectives, firefighters are now working to fully suppress the flames, park officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the scene Sunday afternoon were seven helicopters, three air tankers and one air attack plane, according to a Yosemite fire information update posted online. Additionally, six hotshot crews of 20 people each arrived Sunday evening along with Yosemite fire crews. It takes firefighters about a day to hike into the remote area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About 15 miles southwest of the park, firefighters were slowly gaining the upper hand on a wildfire near the town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 300-acre blaze was 70 percent contained, and an evacuation order already has been lifted for the 300 homes most threatened by the fire, Cal Fire said. A portion of Highway 49 was briefly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steep terrain in the area and the dry conditions brought on by California’s drought initially hampered firefighters, one of whom received a minor injury Friday, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Siskiyou County, the state’s biggest fire of 2014 grew to nearly 100,000 acres over the weekend. The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex\u003c/a>, a group of lightning-sparked fires that have burned together south of the Klamath River in the mountains west of Yreka, is about 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is one of several that has caused prolonged air-quality alerts in Northern California and southern Oregon, and has grown to nearly 100,000 acres. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/2014-SmokeAdvisory-091614.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">issued an advisory \u003c/a>over the weekend that smoke from the north could affect much of the Bay Area, and a smoky haze was visible over much of the region Sunday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 3,000 firefighters have been involved in fighting the Happy Camp blaze since it broke out Aug. 11. The cost of fighting the fire, which has threatened several rural communities but hasn’t yet destroyed any structures, is estimated at $57.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"storify\">[\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/kqednews/fire-burns-near-half-dome-in-yosemite-national-par\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the story “Fire Burns Near Half Dome in Yosemite National Park” on Storify\u003c/a>]\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-147322\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/15004532959_c22b5646ae_o-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Happy Camp Complex fire burns in Siskiyou County earlier this week. (Kari Greer via Flickr and California Interagency Incident Management Team 1)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 10:10 a.m. \u003c/strong>Yosemite National Park says the \u003ca href=\"http://www.recreation.gov/wildernessAreaDetails.do?contractCode=NRSO&parkId=79064\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half Dome Cables\u003c/a>, which hikers use to ascend the rock formation, will reopen to the public on Saturday, Sept. 13.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More info from the park:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The trail to Half Dome via Little Yosemite Valley is open to day-use only. No overnight camping in any areas impacted by the fire is permitted. All other area closures, including Little Yosemite Valley, Sunrise High Sierra Camp area, Echo Valley, and Clouds Rest, are still in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Visible smoke in the early morning hours may be present in and around Yosemite Valley and the Half Dome Hike. Visitors who are sensitive to smoke should consider rescheduling their hike to Half Dome or their visit to Yosemite National Park. Visitors are urged to check the park’s website to get updated information on the smoke impacts to the park. Updated information can be found at\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose\"> www.nps.gov/yose\u003c/a> or\u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\"> http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kari Cobb, a park ranger at Yosemite, told KQED’s Ted Goldberg that an investigative team has determined that the fire was caused by embers from a previous blaze, which park officials had opted to let burn. Cobb said that decision was made because the original fire was burning in a wilderness area, with no threat to structures or people. Also, it had been a while since the area had been impacted by a fire, which can be beneficial to the ecosystem, Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the fire was first reported Sunday around noon, Cobb said, firefighters were not able to enter the area until late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning; until then, all efforts at containment occurred from the air. “The fire’s actually located in wilderness,” Cobb said, “about 10-12 miles from the nearest trailhead. It’s a really steep hike to get up there. We needed to find crews that could handle carrying all that weight up such a steep trail and so far back there. …. Making sure everyone was safe and everyone was prepared took a couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, another fire has broken out northeast of Redding. From AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A fast-moving wildfire in Northern California is threatening more than 100 homes, at least some of which are under mandatory evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire about 15 miles northeast of Redding in Shasta County had burned through nearly 2 square miles of grass, brush and oak timber as of Thursday morning, a day after it began. It was 15 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze, which began as a vehicle fire, was fueled by dry, gusty winds and 100-degree temperatures. Fire crews were expecting the same conditions Thursday and have called in hundreds of additional firefighters to battle the blaze.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_details_info?incident_id=1053\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gulch Fire\u003c/a> started last night and is 15 percent contained. The Redding Record Searchlight has \u003ca href=\"http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/fire-burning-in-jones-valley-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>The \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4104/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meadow Fire\u003c/a> in Yosemite National Park is now spread over 4,906 acres as of about 8:30 a.m. today. The fire, in a wilderness area within Little Yosemite Valley, east of Half Dome, is 23 percent contained. The National Wildlife Coordinating Group’s InciWeb site reports little growth in the fire overnight. The highest priority is to open the trail to Half Dome, the site reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One obstacle to firefighting efforts: bears. “Bears continue to be a major issue with fire crew safety in spike camps and along the fire line. Extensive measures are being taken not to attract bears to the food and other supplies. Trash is being backhauled daily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex Fire\u003c/a> in the Klamath National Forest has expanded to 107,359 acres and is 30 percent contained. \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.usda.gov/alerts/klamath/alerts-notices/?aid=24768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fire-related closures here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Sept. 9 \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smoke advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area-related the fires up north is still in effect throughout today. You can check out \u003ca href=\"http://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_state&stateid=5&mapcenter=0&tabs=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current air quality for all of California here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> Some updated numbers on the backcountry fire burning in Yosemite National Park. Spokeswoman Kari Cobb says the fire has burned 4,532 acres and is 10 percent contained with about 400 firefighters and eight helicopters working to limit its spread. The fire’s growth has slowed dramatically since midday Tuesday, when it was reported to be about 4,400 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> Cobb also said that the impact of smoke in the park is expected to be much less than on Tuesday, when a thick haze shrouded Yosemite Valley. The park remains open to visitors, though several trails east and northeast of Yosemite Valley are closed, including those in the Echo Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Sunrise Creek drainage to Little Yosemite Valley, the Merced River corridor to Merced Lake Ranger Station, and the Sunrise Trail to Clouds Rest from Tenaya Lake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Communications%20and%20Outreach/Publications/News%20Releases/2014/wildfire_140909.ashx?la=en\">a smoke advisory\u003c/a>, as the Yosemite fire and a much larger blaze in far Northern California continue to emit thick plumes into the atmosphere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Forest Service says \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> — a combination of the lightning-sparked Frying Pan and Falkstein fires — is now 105,198 acres and 30 percent contained. Windy weather Monday and Tuesday pushed the blaze rapidly to the east and southeast and prompted the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office to issue new evacuation \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO-20140909_MandatoryEvacuationNotice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">orders\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.co.siskiyou.ca.us/sites/default/files/docs/SO_20140909PIOEvacuationAdvisoryNoticeUpdatedHCNorthandSouth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advisories\u003c/a>. During the course of the fire, which started Aug. 11, it has threatened hundreds of homes and triggered a series of evacuation alerts. So far, eight structures have been destroyed or damaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further details, by way of the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Kerry Greene, a spokeswoman for the fire in the Klamath National Forest, says two homes were destroyed this week when winds fueled the blaze. Another two homes were destroyed earlier. The fire has also damaged or destroyed four other buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Forest Service spokesman Rudy Evenson says 274 residents are under mandatory evacuation orders, and at least that many people have been told to be ready to leave home if the fire worsens.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>If you’re not conversant with Northern California geography, the fire is burning about 20 to 30 miles west of Interstate 5 and 15 miles or so south of the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the smoldering blaze that roared to life in the national park’s backcountry has grown to more than 4,400 acres, up from about 2,600 Monday afternoon. The fire is 5 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remains open, Yosemite Valley and other areas are experiencing heavy smoke. The blaze, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/Meadow-Fire-Update-1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dubbed the Meadow Fire\u003c/a>, grew out of a lightning strike on Aug. 16. Yosemite fire managers had been monitoring the small fire that resulted but did not attempt to contain it. Before it blew up during windy, dry conditions Sunday, it had consumed just 20 acres in three weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Far, far to the north, meantime, the long-running \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4078/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Happy Camp Complex fire\u003c/a> has grown to nearly 104,000 acres and continues to defy efforts to keep it from spreading. Brisk northwesterly winds on Monday sparked spot fires on the blaze’s eastern and southeastern perimeter and prompted \u003ca href=\"http://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/article/4078/24321/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new evacuation orders \u003c/a>for areas near the Scott River south of where it flows into the Klamath River. Despite the massive acreage burned so far, in an area south of the Klamath and west of Interstate 5 near the Oregon border, just two structures have been reported destroyed or damaged to date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2,500 personnel are fighting the blaze, which is 30 percent contained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Yosemite officials say the fire that flared up Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 185 visitors from trails in relatively remote parts of the park, has burned nearly 2,600 acres. They also say the weather Monday — less windy and somewhat more humid than Sunday — should slow the blaze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday that officials decided to pick up about 100 people in the Little Yosemite Valley area and another 85 from Half Dome because they wanted to clear the fire zone as quickly as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would take all those individuals several hours to come out of the backcountry, come out of the location where the fire is,” Cobb told KQED’s Ted Goldberg. “We wanted to make sure our visitors were safe and that we weren’t putting them in a position where they were unable to leave.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobb also said that at least some of those evacuated seemed to get a thrill out of their once-in-a-lifetime Yosemite chopper flight:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I was actually able to talk to some of those people that came off the helicopter, and most of them were really excited that they got to have a helicopter ride in Yosemite. It’s not every day you get to fly over Yosemite like that.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Lightning ignited the blaze, called the Meadow Fire, on Aug. 16. National Park Service fire managers elected to monitor the fire instead of immediately suppress it. The fire spread very slowly, and last Thursday it was reported to have burned through 19 acres.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park says a force of 120 firefighters is combating the backcountry blaze, aided by seven helicopters and two fixed-wing airplanes. Trails near the Half Dome area, the Little Yosemite Valley area, Merced Lake and Sunrise High Sierra Camps, Clouds Rest and Echo Valley are closed. The trail to Half Dome, east of Nevada Fall and including the cables to the peak, is closed through at least Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post, based mainly on Associated Press reports:\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:10 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A small backcountry wildfire burning for weeks in Yosemite National Park burst to life on Sunday, forcing the helicopter evacuation of about 100 park visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park spokeswoman Kari Cobb said Monday the Meadow Fire, which was started by lightning in mid-August, had grown to 2,500 acres from a reported 700 Sunday evening. The fire is at 0 percent containment. Some of those evacuated from the fire zone on Sunday included hikers who had climbed the park’s iconic Half Dome peak, rising nearly 5,000 feet above Yosemite Valley. Others had to be airlifted from campgrounds and hiking trails in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roads into the park are open, but several trails are closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters had monitored the lightning-sparked fire that started Aug. 16 between Little Yosemite Valley and Half Dome, and last Thursday the park reported \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/fireinfo.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the fire had covered about 19 acres\u003c/a>. But the flames were fueled by strong winds and high temperatures Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just got unbelievable crazy winds and unexpected hot conditions,” Tim Ludington, the park’s chief of roads and trails, told the Fresno Bee. “The fire behavior totally changed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/07/4110706_yosemite-hikers-evacuated-as-backcountry.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Bee\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>While the fire was originally allowed to burn for forest restoration and other objectives, firefighters are now working to fully suppress the flames, park officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the scene Sunday afternoon were seven helicopters, three air tankers and one air attack plane, according to a Yosemite fire information update posted online. Additionally, six hotshot crews of 20 people each arrived Sunday evening along with Yosemite fire crews. It takes firefighters about a day to hike into the remote area.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>About 15 miles southwest of the park, firefighters were slowly gaining the upper hand on a wildfire near the town of Mariposa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 300-acre blaze was 70 percent contained, and an evacuation order already has been lifted for the 300 homes most threatened by the fire, Cal Fire said. A portion of Highway 49 was briefly closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steep terrain in the area and the dry conditions brought on by California’s drought initially hampered firefighters, one of whom received a minor injury Friday, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in Siskiyou County, the state’s biggest fire of 2014 grew to nearly 100,000 acres over the weekend. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147351\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/geese.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147351 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/geese-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Geese at Shadow Cliffs have begun spending time on the beach and their waste likely contributed to high E. coli readings in the swim area. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian geese at Shadow Cliffs have begun spending time on the beach, and their waste has likely contributed to high E. coli readings in the swim area. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Aaron Mendelson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shadow Cliffs Regional Recreation Area can draw more than 50,000 people during the hot, dry summer months in the East Bay suburb of Pleasanton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A former quarry site, the park’s lake sparkles under the summer sun. That spring-fed, 80-acre lake has long been a draw to beachgoers, grillers and anglers. But three years into California’s historic drought, that lake has shrunk to about 75 acres, according to park supervisor Bill Kaminski.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep up with the receding lake, Shadow Cliffs’ swim area keeps getting pushed farther and farther out. A creek here has gone dry, stranding fish. And the park’s pumps are now above the lake’s water, unable to provide water for trees or lawns. Instead, the park fills up a truck from a fire hydrant, and waters the trees in hopes of keeping them alive. Many are losing leaves, visibly struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shadow Cliffs has seen the most severe effects of the drought of any park in the East Bay Regional Park District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the early 1980s, Sunol resident Sue Hadley has been a regular at Shadow Cliffs. She’s part of a group that comes here for \u003ca href=\"http://sowat-swimming.org/\" target=\"_blank\">“open water” swimming\u003c/a>, logging a couple miles early in the morning. She describes the routine: “it’s like a nonstop swimming. So there’s no lane lines, no chlorine. You’re just focused on swimming a straight line to where your destination is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem> \u003c/em>Hadley tries to swim every day. But for six days in July, no one could swim at Shadow Cliffs. “It’s never been closed for the length of time that it was closed this year,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay Regional Park District had to shut down the swimming areas due to high levels of E. coli. Park supervisor Bill Kaminski says that warm weather and swimmers kicking up bacteria in the newly extended swim areas contributed to the high readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167165832&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another source of that E. coli sits on the shore, just a few feet from the water: a gaggle of Canadian geese, and their waste. Shadow Cliffs’ geese didn’t always hang out at the beach. They began once the park stopped watering grassy areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the water was cut off -- due to the park’s pumps sitting uselessly above the water -- those grassy areas have gone from green to brown to dust. “It’s almost depressing,” says Bob Hargrove, who ran a concession and boat rental stand here this summer for a company called Rocky Mountain Recreation. “So it’s not as pretty as it would normally be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 11 a.m. on a recent Friday, the weather was starting to heat up. Hargrove says his stand gets well over 100 degrees on hot days -- too hot to stock ice cream treats. So he sits out front on a table, keeping an eye on the boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the water’s so low on our docks, we had to moor our boats out and we took most of our electric boats out,” Hargrove says, pointing toward the dock that’s nearly on dry land. “Because it's just too hard to get ‘em in and out of the water. It’s so low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business has taken a hit at the stand. Hargrove estimates it’s down about 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/fishing.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147352 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/fishing-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Fishing is a popular pastime at Shadow Cliffs. Tony Soleta, pictured, says “the lake needs some more water.” (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing is a popular pastime at Shadow Cliffs.Tony Soleta, pictured here, says the lake needs some more water. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other parks around the state also have felt the impacts of the drought. The state’s Department of Parks and Recreation shut down camping at Portola Redwoods Park, citing a lack of drinking water. The Hearst Castle Visitor Center closed its bathrooms, and a leaky pool at the castle was allowed to drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Shadow Cliffs, after Hargrove’s shift ends in the early afternoon, Kaminski hops in a pickup to demonstrate the effects of the drought on this 265-acre park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up in front of the lake, just past Hargrove’s stand. It’s down more than 10 feet, he says, gesturing at the shimmering blue water. That puts the lake here at or past its all-time low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our boat docks and piers are basically resting on mud right now. Where they’d normally be in about 8-to-10 feet of water,” Kaminski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lake continues to lose half an inch of water -- or more -- every day. But the park’s problems don’t end with the lake. Trees are shedding their leaves early. Attendance was down sharply in July and August. And anglers say that it’s tough to catch fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the park from the lake, a creek is going dry: bad news for bass and bluegills. “They just get stuck in pools and don’t realize that those pools are evaporating,” Kaminski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147353\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/sign.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147353\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/sign-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"The East Bay Regional Park District implemented its “brown is the new green” policy in response to the drought. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The East Bay Regional Park District implemented its “brown is the new green” policy in response to the drought. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the park isn’t in crisis mode. Not yet. At this point, Kaminski says, there’s little he can do but wait and hope for rain. If the state gets a wet winter, things could get back to normal at Shadow Cliffs. But as Kaminski pulls his truck up in front of his office, he says it’s been a frustrating summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’d be one thing if it was a matter of funding, or a matter of not being able to get the right permits, you know, or not having enough staff to do the work. But that’s all in place. We just don’t have the one thing that we need most, and that’s water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaminski says the park will stay open, and that the lake here is still beautiful. It’s just not the lake that people are used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/dry-stretch.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-147355\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/dry-stretch-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A dry stretch of the Arroyo del Valle in Shadow Cliffs. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dry stretch of the Arroyo del Valle in Shadow Cliffs. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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Park supervisor Bill Kaminski says that warm weather and swimmers kicking up bacteria in the newly extended swim areas contributed to the high readings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/167165832&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another source of that E. coli sits on the shore, just a few feet from the water: a gaggle of Canadian geese, and their waste. Shadow Cliffs’ geese didn’t always hang out at the beach. They began once the park stopped watering grassy areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the water was cut off -- due to the park’s pumps sitting uselessly above the water -- those grassy areas have gone from green to brown to dust. “It’s almost depressing,” says Bob Hargrove, who ran a concession and boat rental stand here this summer for a company called Rocky Mountain Recreation. “So it’s not as pretty as it would normally be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 11 a.m. on a recent Friday, the weather was starting to heat up. Hargrove says his stand gets well over 100 degrees on hot days -- too hot to stock ice cream treats. So he sits out front on a table, keeping an eye on the boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since the water’s so low on our docks, we had to moor our boats out and we took most of our electric boats out,” Hargrove says, pointing toward the dock that’s nearly on dry land. “Because it's just too hard to get ‘em in and out of the water. It’s so low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business has taken a hit at the stand. Hargrove estimates it’s down about 40 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_147352\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/fishing.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-147352 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/09/fishing-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Fishing is a popular pastime at Shadow Cliffs. Tony Soleta, pictured, says “the lake needs some more water.” (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fishing is a popular pastime at Shadow Cliffs.Tony Soleta, pictured here, says the lake needs some more water. (Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Other parks around the state also have felt the impacts of the drought. The state’s Department of Parks and Recreation shut down camping at Portola Redwoods Park, citing a lack of drinking water. The Hearst Castle Visitor Center closed its bathrooms, and a leaky pool at the castle was allowed to drain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Shadow Cliffs, after Hargrove’s shift ends in the early afternoon, Kaminski hops in a pickup to demonstrate the effects of the drought on this 265-acre park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He pulls up in front of the lake, just past Hargrove’s stand. It’s down more than 10 feet, he says, gesturing at the shimmering blue water. That puts the lake here at or past its all-time low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All our boat docks and piers are basically resting on mud right now. Where they’d normally be in about 8-to-10 feet of water,” Kaminski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the lake continues to lose half an inch of water -- or more -- every day. But the park’s problems don’t end with the lake. Trees are shedding their leaves early. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/DryCreek_wide_4915.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21454\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/DryCreek_wide_4915.jpg\" alt=\"Dry Creek in the west Napa Valley was bone-dry when the quake struck, but sprang back to life three days afterward. (Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dry Creek in the west Napa Valley was bone-dry when the quake struck, but sprang to life three days later. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Normally, Dry Creek, just west of Napa, lives up to its name this time of year. 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But the \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/09/02/napa-quake-forces-redrawing-of-fault-maps/\">underground dynamics\u003c/a> that started it all are complicated and not nearly as clear as the crystalline water bubbling up from below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as elusive is the question of how long it will last. Geologists say this is a common occurrence following earthquakes and doesn’t often last more than a matter of weeks. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The resurgence of Dry Creek is just one of \u003ca title=\"Press-Dem - post\" href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/home/2655382-181/napa-quake-jumpstarts-stream-flows\">many similar stories\u003c/a> that have arisen since the August 24 quake that struck the Napa Valley and damaged buildings in at least three significant North Bay cities. But the \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/09/02/napa-quake-forces-redrawing-of-fault-maps/\">underground dynamics\u003c/a> that started it all are complicated and not nearly as clear as the crystalline water bubbling up from below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just as elusive is the question of how long it will last. Geologists say this is a common occurrence following earthquakes and doesn’t often last more than a matter of weeks. But there are some optimists out there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These ephemerals are flowing across the entire Mayacama Range (the western Napa Valley slope),” hydrologist Robert Shibatani, who toured the area last week, wrote in an email to KQED. “Nor is it necessarily a temporary event; streams are still running two weeks after the temblor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shibatani surmises that on the west side of Napa Valley, the quake didn’t create new springs so much as it opened new connections between underground aquifers, creating a fresh supply for existing springs. If so, these new \u003ca title=\"SFC - post\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Surprise-bonanza-since-Napa-quake-dry-creeks-now-5739098.php#page-1\">flows could continue\u003c/a> into the rainy season — but there’s really no way to know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21457\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/DryCreek_riffle_4912.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21457\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/DryCreek_riffle_4912.jpg\" alt=\"One hydrologist estimates the flow rates on some quake-revived streams could be significant in view of the current drought. (Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One hydrologist estimates the flow rates on some quake-revived streams could be significant in view of the current drought. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These flows could represent new base flows, which would be a significant enhancement to overall water supply yield to this area of northern California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing that gives Shibatani hope of some permanence is the volume of water he’s seen — up to 10 or 12 cubic feet per second, which, over the course of a year, would be enough to supply thousands of typical households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That kind of volume is considerable given the state of our current drought,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There remain some slippery questions, such as whether upstream wells might start running dry, and ultimately, to whom this wet new windfall belongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a ‘natural’ stream flow (albeit new), initial indications [from state water regulators] are that they would be considered ‘riparian’ rights and permissible for diversion,” says Shibatani. “I think that someone needs to really get a sense of the overall scale of this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Buckland, who grew up virtually on the banks of Dry Creek, a spawning stream for salmon and steelhead, he’s just happy to see it running with such gusto at the driest time of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully this is something that’ll really help out our fishery,” he says, “but it’s amazing what nature can do for us.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21430\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture1-1024x685.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-21430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture1-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"David Rosenstein’s Los Angeles-based Evo Farm uses aquaponics, which combines hydroponics and fish farming. (Chris Richard/KQED)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Rosenstein’s Los Angeles-based Evo Farm uses aquaponics, which combines hydroponics and fish farming. (Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past 20 years, fish farm production worldwide has quadrupled. According to United Nations estimates, it’s on a pace to account for half of the world’s total fish catch by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But most of the farm-produced seafood consumed in this country is imported, much of it from Asia, and that has raised concerns about environmental and public health regulation at overseas fish farms. Now some California aquaculture businesses are pitching environmentally friendly ways to bring more business here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has some of the strictest environmental protection laws for fish farming in the country. But so far, the state’s aquaculture industry is embryonic. It added up to just $175 million in total value last year, said Randy Lovell, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife aquaculture coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There’s nothing that we’ll be putting in to the ocean that’s not already there.’\u003ccite>— Phil Cruver, Catalina Sea Ranch\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Catalina Sea Ranch spent more than two years convincing the California Coastal Commission that it can operate in a stretch of ocean about 6 miles offshore from Long Beach without hurting the environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company president Phil Cruver says he’s ready to make good on his promises. At a recent press event, he displayed an array of buoy-mounted monitors that will transmit data from the farm site in real time, using an ocean-going cellular phone network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing that we’ll be putting in to the ocean that’s not already there,” he said. “We’re going to show on 100 acres, independent institutions, that offshore aquaculture is not detrimental to the environmental health of the oceans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the Sea Ranch monitors will be freely available to researchers, and regulators will track it to determine if operations there have caused environmental harm, Cruver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/166814178&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s well on the way to the $5 million he needs to fund the project, which will be located on the San Pedro shelf. There, cold, nutrient-rich water rises from the depths further out. In October, Cruver plans to set out 40 heavy ropes packed with baby mussels, suspended from buoys and anchored to the sea floor. Next June, he expects to harvest his first crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big concerns about fish farming is that farm stock might gobble food that the wild population needs or foul the water with waste. Cruver say his university research partners will monitor the waters around the Sea Ranch and he’ll take their direction to keep the ecosystem safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the company’s shore-based breeding tanks, Cruver hopes to grow his own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll use technology developed by Los Angeles-based OriginOil. The company’s research director, Nick Eckelberry, brought an aquarium-sized tank of murky green water to the Sea Ranch press event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21435\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture7-1024x682.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21435\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture7-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"One of OriginOil’s algae-skimming machines already is in use at a tilapia farm in the Mojave Desert community of Thermal. (Courtesy of OriginOil)\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of OriginOil’s algae-skimming machines already is in use at a tilapia farm in the Mojave Desert community of Thermal. (Courtesy of OriginOil)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To show how his system works, Eckelberry flipped a switch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, a ghostly cloud of tiny bubbles rose to the surface. The bubbles were oxygen and hydrogen gas, the remnants of water molecules broken up by the electric charge and carrying particles of algae with them as they surfaced. An automated comb swept the water, collecting a pea-soup paste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eckelberry says that paste makes good feed for baby mussels and other farmed seafood, too. Right now, fish farms rely on feed made from ground-up anchovies, sardines and mackerel, and that can deplete ocean ecosystems. Eckelberry says algae-based food is a good alternative, but making it has required energy-hungry centrifuges. Until now. He says his process makes algae-based food affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is that you typically have a lot of water and a little bit of algae, and the question is, ‘How do you get the algae out affordably?’ Eckelberry said. “Almost serendipitously, that is what this system does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eckelberry said another alternate food based on soy costs more than times what he’ll have to charge for his algae-based fish chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovell, the state aquaculture coordinator, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has conducted broad research in alternative feeds in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21438\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture8-1024x685.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21438\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture8-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"OriginOil turns algae into fish chow. Company research director Nick Eckelberry says the food has comparable nutritive value to soy-based feed, but is much cheaper. (Chris Richard/KQED)\" width=\"320\" height=\"214\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OriginOil turns algae into fish chow. Company research director Nick Eckelberry says the food has comparable nutritive value to soy-based feed, but is much cheaper. (Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Typically, fish farms have an additional problem: how to dispose of toxic bio waste. Twenty miles north of the Sea Ranch headquarters, another entrepreneur is working on a solution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Rosenstein slides open a greenhouse door. There are lush plantings of bok choy, red Russian kale, basil, Bavarian lettuce, celery and more, all growing in water, like a conventional hydroponics operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in a corner, there are two large tanks full of water. Rosenstein reaches into one with a net.\u003cbr>\n“I know. Hold on, guys,” he murmurs into the tank. There’s a little splash, then a flurry, with water flying in all directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hold on! One second, please!” Rosenstein pleads, but the struggle just gets fiercer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, dripping with water and panting slightly, Rosenstein holds up a 5-pound catfish in the net for a second. It thrashes free and plunges back into the depths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenstein’s greenhouse uses aquaponics, which blends hydroponics and fish farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another farmer would have to worry about disposing of fecal material. Not Rosenstein, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All his waste streams, which he currently pays top dollar to become EPA-compliant, is something I do naturally within the system,” Rosenstein said. “His dollar stops at the point where he harvests his fish. But mine continues. Because I’m doing this system, it’s not a cost. It’s part of the design of the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘How do we use every drop of precious water to maximize the value that comes out of that?’\u003ccite>— Karen Ross, California Department of Food and Agriculture\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He composts the waste, turning it into fertilizer for his plants, which in turn helps to purify the water for the fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovell said he’s intrigued by such models.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of attraction to it because of the closing of the cycle, the sharing of nutrients between fish and plants. It pushes a lot of buttons that make a lot of sense, myself included,” he said. “However, many of the people who are involved in aquaponics are making a fair amount of their money by training other people to do it. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company president Phil Cruver says he’s ready to make good on his promises. At a recent press event, he displayed an array of buoy-mounted monitors that will transmit data from the farm site in real time, using an ocean-going cellular phone network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s nothing that we’ll be putting in to the ocean that’s not already there,” he said. “We’re going to show on 100 acres, independent institutions, that offshore aquaculture is not detrimental to the environmental health of the oceans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data from the Sea Ranch monitors will be freely available to researchers, and regulators will track it to determine if operations there have caused environmental harm, Cruver said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/166814178&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s well on the way to the $5 million he needs to fund the project, which will be located on the San Pedro shelf. 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He says his process makes algae-based food affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem is that you typically have a lot of water and a little bit of algae, and the question is, ‘How do you get the algae out affordably?’ Eckelberry said. “Almost serendipitously, that is what this system does.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eckelberry said another alternate food based on soy costs more than times what he’ll have to charge for his algae-based fish chow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lovell, the state aquaculture coordinator, said the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has conducted broad research in alternative feeds in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_21438\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 320px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture8-1024x685.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21438\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/09/aquaculture8-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"OriginOil turns algae into fish chow. 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Why shouldn’t residents do the same thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After getting the OK from regulators, the district ran a few pipes to a parking lot and added spigots, hoses, a shed and a hand-washing station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s operations supervisor, Levi Fuller, said the concept of collecting recycled sewage gives some people pause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said one of the biggest hurdles is the “yuck factor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because, you know, the water starts in the sewage treatment plant. But it gets an extra filter through sand, a blast of ultraviolet light and a final dose of bleach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Basically, there is less bacteria than lake water that you swim in, and it has no smell to it,” Darren Steel said. “And it’s great for the plants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steel said he comes regularly for water to keep his back lawn alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired school administrator Irene Martin was filling up big plastic painters' buckets at the pump next to Steel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even an old woman can do it,” she said, laughing, hose in hand. “I handle these five-gallon buckets just fine. 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Kleier said they bought the barrels for around $100.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then the pump was $75, but it’s well worth it,” she said. “We’ve used more than $200 worth of water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And their lawn is getting green again, which can inspire “drought rage” from neighbors who think they’re using potable water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a man today, in fact, drive down the street, shake his finger at me and yell ‘you can’t water in the daylight,’” Kleier said. “I said, ‘wastewater, it’s all right.’ He did a very obscene gesture and kept driving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has a sign for that. It says: “Recycled water keeps this garden green. Recycled water saves drinking water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Kleiers have a system at their 1960s ranch house to get their hauled recycled water to the plants. Dan Kleier simply climbs into his truck bed with a pump, connected to a hose. He plugs the pump in and dunks the submergible bilge pump into one of the buckets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His wife works the hose with the hand-held sprinkler attachment. She sprays the flowers and then switches over to a stationary sprinkler head that waters the lawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said it’s a lot of effort, but it’s worth it to keep the plants alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, using recycled water on landscaping is rare even in this water district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, recycling water is more common. UC Berkeley professor David Sedlak, co-director of the Berkeley Water Center and director of the Institute for Environmental Science and Engineering, said many new developments in the southern part of the state have so-called “dual piping.” That allows for tap water inside the home and recycled water outside for irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sedlak said retrofitting some existing water systems is on the horizon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will have projects where pipes will be brought into a neighborhood and people will have choice: Do you want to use recycled water or continue using drinking water on your lawn?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dublin experience is a great way for people to get their feet wet, so to speak. 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Sedlak said it will need to happen in parts of the state if California is to meet its aggressive goal of using one-third recycled water by the year 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While that may be far off, Fuller said he’s hearing from other water districts about their interest in replicating the free, recycled water station right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Get those buckets ready.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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