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They say there should have been a full environmental review before bringing in trains full of crude oil. Kinder Morgan was already using the facility to bring in chemicals like ethanol. (The lawsuit is embedded at the bottom of this article.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13016\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/pittsburgoilprotest.jpg\" alt=\"About 150 people marched to Pittsburg city hall on January 11, protesting a proposed oil terminal. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 150 people marched to Pittsburg city hall on January 11, protesting a proposed oil terminal. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There are more crude-by-rail projects on the table in the Bay Area and Central Coast. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero wants to build a crude-by-rail terminal at its \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/valero-rail-project-fuels-tar-sands-speculation-in-bay-area/\">refinery in Benicia\u003c/a>. The city is working on an \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/index.asp?SEC=%7BC45EA667-8D39-4B30-87EB-9110A2F9CE13%7D\">environmental impact report\u003c/a> on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pittsburg, an energy company called WesPac is trying to open an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/bay-area-residents-resist-crude-by-rail-as-accidents-rise/\">oil terminal\u003c/a> that would bring crude in by rail, pipeline and ship. The city recently reopened that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.pittsburg.ca.us/index.aspx?page=700\">environmental impact report\u003c/a>, to do more research on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the Central Coast, the Phillips 66 refinery in San Luis Obispo County has applied to build a rail terminal. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/planning/environmental/EnvironmentalNotices/railproject.htm\">comment period\u003c/a> on that project has also just been reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There has been some progress on making transporting crude oil by train safer.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/news/2014/140123.html\">has been asking for safety upgrades\u003c/a> to the tank cars used to transport oil. Those would need to go through the U.S. Department of Transportation; the NTSB can make recommendations, but not regulations. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area refineries mostly get their oil from pipelines and ships, from \u003ca href=\"http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/petroleum/statistics/crude_oil_receipts.html\">Southern California, Alaska and the Middle East\u003c/a>. But there’s an oil boom right now in the middle part of North America. In North Dakota it’s oil coming from the Bakken formation, and in Alberta it’s from the tar sands. Oil companies want to get all that oil to the coasts, where the refineries and most of their customers are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In defense of the projects, oil companies point out that this oil is either from right here in the U.S. or from our friendly neighbor Canada, rather than from overseas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crude oil imports by rail into California have \u003ca href=\"http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/petroleum/statistics/2013_crude_by_rail.html\">shot up in recent years\u003c/a>, from zero in early 2009, to more than a million barrels in December 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Opponents of crude-by-rail are concerned about public safety and environmental impacts.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crude oil from Alberta’s tar sands is heavy and high in sulfur. Environmentalists say it’s “dirty,” that it pollutes more to get it out of the ground and to refine it. So that’s the climate change and air pollution side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, the safety concerns are mostly about the oil from the Bakken formation. It’s light and sweet, that is, lower in sulfur. But it’s also volatile. The oil trains that have derailed and exploded recently, including the one in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, that killed 47 people, were carrying Bakken crude.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It turns out crude-by-rail was already coming into Richmond.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kinder Morgan has been bringing in 100-car trains of crude oil to its \u003ca href=\"http://www.kindermorgan.com/business/products_pipelines/terminals_W_richmond.cfm\">terminal in Richmond\u003c/a>, which is on the BNSF rail line. \u003ca href=\"http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/03/14/trains-carrying-fracked-oil-spotted-in-bay-area/\">KPIX followed the oil\u003c/a> as it was loaded into a truck and brought to the \u003ca href=\"http://tsocorp.com/refining/martinez-calif/\">Tesoro refinery in Martinez\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of \u003ca href=\"http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2014/groups-challenge-crude-by-rail-shipments-to-bay-area-city\">environmental and community groups is suing\u003c/a> the Air District and Kinder Morgan to stop the operation. They say there should have been a full environmental review before bringing in trains full of crude oil. Kinder Morgan was already using the facility to bring in chemicals like ethanol. (The lawsuit is embedded at the bottom of this article.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13016\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13016\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/01/pittsburgoilprotest.jpg\" alt=\"About 150 people marched to Pittsburg city hall on January 11, protesting a proposed oil terminal. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 150 people marched to Pittsburg city hall on January 11, protesting a proposed oil terminal. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There are more crude-by-rail projects on the table in the Bay Area and Central Coast. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valero wants to build a crude-by-rail terminal at its \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/valero-rail-project-fuels-tar-sands-speculation-in-bay-area/\">refinery in Benicia\u003c/a>. The city is working on an \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.benicia.ca.us/index.asp?SEC=%7BC45EA667-8D39-4B30-87EB-9110A2F9CE13%7D\">environmental impact report\u003c/a> on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Pittsburg, an energy company called WesPac is trying to open an \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/bay-area-residents-resist-crude-by-rail-as-accidents-rise/\">oil terminal\u003c/a> that would bring crude in by rail, pipeline and ship. The city recently reopened that \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.pittsburg.ca.us/index.aspx?page=700\">environmental impact report\u003c/a>, to do more research on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on the Central Coast, the Phillips 66 refinery in San Luis Obispo County has applied to build a rail terminal. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/planning/environmental/EnvironmentalNotices/railproject.htm\">comment period\u003c/a> on that project has also just been reopened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>There has been some progress on making transporting crude oil by train safer.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board \u003ca href=\"https://www.ntsb.gov/news/2014/140123.html\">has been asking for safety upgrades\u003c/a> to the tank cars used to transport oil. Those would need to go through the U.S. Department of Transportation; the NTSB can make recommendations, but not regulations. 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"disqusTitle": "Anza-Borrego, a Park Dealing With a Drought on Top of a Drought",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Lisa Morehouse\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/anza-borrego2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-130894\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/anza-borrego2-640x398.jpg\" alt=\" A dry, windy afternoon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dry, windy afternoon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A desert is, by definition, dry. But even a desert can have a drought, complete with impacts for native flora and fauna on the one hand and for the humans who live and visit on the other. \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=638\" target=\"_blank\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park\u003c/a>, California's biggest state park by far, is in the third straight year of drier-than-usual weather. The long dry spell has had a visible impact. The lack of rain \u003ca href=\"http://www.desertusa.com/wildflo/ca_abdsp.html\" target=\"_blank\">has muted Anza-Borrego's wildflower bloom\u003c/a>, the one event every year that brings a crowd of visitors to the community of Borrego Springs and other desert destinations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decline in visitors has created challenges for local businesses. But as I found during a February visit, it's also prompted the people who really know and love Anza-Borrego to send out the message that there’s a lot more to do here than drive through the desert and look at wildflowers through car windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Park supporters work to get visitors to look beyond the wildflowers.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Paige Rogowski, executive director of \u003ca href=\"http://theabf.org/\" target=\"_blank\">the Anza-Borrego Foundation\u003c/a>, says she’s targeting a different kind of visitor: \"The people who are interested in learning what’s underneath this rock. How does this plant work here in the desert when it’s so dry? Or where can I find a bighorn sheep? And how do they live on the rocky slopes of the mountains?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to attract visitors to more fully explore the park's nearly 650,000 acres — an area roughly 20 times the size of San Francisco, more than double the size of Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone has to think of creative ways to get people to visit town when wildflowers are not in bloom,\" Rogowski says. \"Astronomy is a perfect example. Borrego Springs is a '\u003ca href=\"http://www.darksky.org/assets/documents/PR/2009/PR_BorregoSprings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">dark sky community\u003c/a>' certified by International Dark Sky association. That means we have some tremendously beautiful night-sky viewing. That’s a resource we promote regardless of wildflowers or time of year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anza-Borrego is also suffering from another kind of drought — the long-term reduction in public funding that has afflicted the entire park system, which led state officials to make plans three years ago to close as many as 70 parks and curtail services in many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130910\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130910 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/AnzaVolunteer-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anza-Borrego Desert State Park volunteer Karin Vickars. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park volunteer Karin Vickars. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Anza-Borrego Foundation is one of the many private nonprofit groups around the state that stepped in to help keep parks running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We fund where the state budget doesn’t, as best we can,\" Rogowski says. \"One of the things we’re doing this year, and the last few years, is to fund positions at the state park visitor center to keep it open open throughout the season, seven days a week.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundation has been at work for nearly half a century on a much bigger project, too — completing acquisition of private land within the state park's boundaries. When the group was formed in 1967, the park encompassed about 75,000 acres of the so-called in-holdings. It's managed to raise funds for and buy about 52,000 acres of that land and turn it over to the state park. That's more land for everyone in the state to enjoy, Rogowski says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent purchase provided legal access to a part of Anza-Borrego, Coyote Canyon, that was virtually cut off from the rest of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Believe it or not, the park didn’t have access to its own park from the town of Borrego Springs,\" Rogowski says. \"So, by purchasing that land, we were able to provide a road into Coyote Canyon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Away from Borrego Springs, I toured the park with Ranger Steve Bier, who revels in showing visitors some of his favorite spots in the backcountry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many directions this place can take, the wildflowers kind of take a back seat when you get immersed in Anza-Borrego,\" Bier says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130916\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-130916\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/BierSlotCanyon1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ranger Steve Bier stands at the entrance to The Slot, a narrow canyon in the Anza-Borrego backlands. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED).\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranger Steve Bier stands at the entrance to The Slot, a narrow canyon in the Anza-Borrego backlands. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED).\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Full immersion involves a trip to an \"Oh, my God!\" overview of the park's badlands and a visit to The Slot, a canyon whose 40-foot walls are so close together I can just barely squeeze through. Way above our heads, a block of rock the size of a school bus leans precariously from one side of the canyon to the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met a Bay Area park visitor, Barbara Kossy, as she prepared to embark on a hike in the park's Hellhole Canyon. She says she had a pang of disappointment when she realized there’d be no wildflowers during her visit. But, she says that's turned her on to other things happening in the landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was seeing lots of other plants in bloom and reading about how, in an effort to survive drought, some plants will drop their seeds, creating a seed bank just waiting for the right conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And when those conditions come, 'Boom!' Then they’ll bloom,\" Kossy says. \"So I’m happy to be here and see the plants, knowing that if they’re not in bloom, they’re waiting. And that’s important, and maybe a lesson.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lesson, perhaps, to be a little patient, and look for what may not be obvious in this austere landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141944448&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Funds for coverage of California state parks is provided by the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That’s a resource we promote regardless of wildflowers or time of year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anza-Borrego is also suffering from another kind of drought — the long-term reduction in public funding that has afflicted the entire park system, which led state officials to make plans three years ago to close as many as 70 parks and curtail services in many others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130910\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-130910 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/AnzaVolunteer-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anza-Borrego Desert State Park volunteer Karin Vickars. (Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anza-Borrego Desert State Park volunteer Karin Vickars. 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A concern of the biologist is that the released condors are excepted into the group, but it appeared that condor 646 was brought into the fold. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/condor_cam/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Another feeding cam\u003c/a> shows live video of the many wild and rehabilitated condors that gather in the feeding area regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warning: Some of the feeding videos can be fairly graphic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 9:57 a.m.\u003c/strong> The Ventana Wildlife Society has said that only one condor — condor 646 — will be released into the wild today because of changes in the weather forecast. Rain in the Big Sur area on Wednesday and Thursday is delaying the release of the other condors previously scheduled to be released today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>—\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four California condors are being released at 10 a.m. PT today in Big Sur by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ventana Wildlife Society\u003c/a>. You can watch the release live via a streaming webcam sponsored by the Oakland Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandzoo.org/Condor_Cam.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the condors released at the Oakland Zoo live webcam.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandzoo.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Oakland Zoo\u003c/a>‘s live-streaming camera is located in the hills outside Big Sur. The zoo also has a “Condor Cam” in the recovery center at the zoo. The center is designed for treatment of sick or injured California condors. Upon the birds’ recovery, they will be returned to their natural habitat. According to the Oakland Zoo’s website, prior to the Oakland Zoo partnership with the California Condor Recovery Program, the nearest Veterinary hospital for condor care was in the Los Angeles Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ventana Wildlife Society and Oakland Zoo run \u003ca href=\"http://www.ventanaws.org/condor_cam/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a number of condor cameras\u003c/a> that allow people to see the birds when they are feeding, rehabilitating and flying free. Because the majority of the condor rehabilitation work in the wild takes place in very remote areas, the Condor Cam in Big Sur is both a chance for the public to see the birds and a tool for biologists. 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Unable to perceive glass and enticed by plants and food inside buildings, birds often fly headfirst into windows and die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This issue is being addressed by some of the largest tech companies, many of which line the bay’s sloughs and marshes. Companies such as Intuit, Facebook, Apple and Google have been working and talking with local Audubon societies and other environmental organizations to come up with building and landscape plans that are not only aimed at preventing bird deaths but also providing habitat with landscaping and green roofs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the American Bird Conservancy, \u003ca href=\"http://www.abcbirds.org/abcprograms/policy/collisions/\">hundreds of millions\u003c/a> of birds die in North America in collisions with man-made structures, mostly plate-glass-covered office buildings. Recent studies have shown that these deaths from window crashes may account for 1 to 5 percent of all bird deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those numbers don’t include other urban threats to birds, including air pollution, habitat loss, artificial lights (which confuse birds), traffic and noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no doubt that birds colliding with buildings is a concern,” said Alicia King, a spokeswoman for U.S. Fish and Wildlife. “In urban areas, it’s an issue, especially ones considered flyways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bay Area Going to the Birds\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 400 bird species can be found at times in the Bay Area, which falls along the \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Flyway\">Pacific Flyway\u003c/a>, a migratory path for birds stretching from Alaska to Argentina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address this problem, a few Bay Area cities have implemented bird-friendly building policies. San Francisco started strict regulations in 2011, followed by Oakland last year and Sunnyvale this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>The focus on birds is part of a shift within the sustainability movement, which emphasizes revamping consumption and energy to include nature – something Shani Kleinhaus, an environmental advocate with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.scvas.org/index.php\">Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society\u003c/a>, hopes will catch on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An emphasis on birds would really bring back a lot of other elements of natural ecosystems, like the plants that the birds like,” she said. “If you have birds, you have a really healthy ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Many of the newer and planned campuses for tech companies have park-like settings, with pathways through greenery. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Birds eat insects, help pollinate plants and disperse seeds in a mutualistic relationship. 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When we were planning our new building and grounds, we wanted the new facility to fit these values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facebook, which has headquarters in Menlo Park, wants its new campuses to have an innovative workspace design that inspires creativity in its products, Tenanes said. The idea is that hard-working employees won’t have to go away to get away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apple is proud of its new headquarters design, a futuristic doughnut surrounded by a man-made forest, and reached out to environmental groups with concerns on its heavy glass usage. The serene environment in Cupertino is meant to reflect Apple’s principles of “innovation, ease of use and beauty,” Apple said in a project description filed for approval by the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Birds and Corporate Values\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By integrating nature within their Silicon Valley campuses, the companies are also creating brick-and-mortar monuments that represent what they say are their company values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wouldn’t call it restoration because it really is a different creation,” Kleinhaus said. “It’s ‘how do we bring nature into our campuses to create a more harmonious campus?’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intuit has this core value of owning your responsibilities,” said Michael Gulasch, real estate director of Intuit, based in Mountain View. “We are part of this community, we need to be good citizens, it’s our responsibility to own the habitat concerns and wildlife concerns because we (abut) right adjacent to the parks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Bird-friendly design is one way these companies also hope to encourage innovation and improve workers’ cognitive abilities. \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The bird element is a natural extension of Intuit’s ideas about sustainability and community, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, you might ask, what about that well-known local tech company that has a bird as its icon? 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_124920\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8434_12216125243_7bc231bce5_o-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-124920\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/RS8434_12216125243_7bc231bce5_o-lpr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the State Water Project, is pictured on Jan. 18, 2014, the day it hit its lowest point during the current drought. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Oroville, the largest reservoir in the State Water Project, is pictured on Jan. 18, 2014, the day it hit its lowest point during the current drought. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It doesn't take a drought to become obsessed wondering how much water is in California's reservoirs, but it helps. Water levels in the extensive network of artificial lakes is edging up as the state awaits the arrival of \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&sid=MTR&pil=SPS\" target=\"_blank\">a lackluster Pacific storm on Tuesday\u003c/a> — with the possibility of a stronger system arriving for the weekend. But reservoirs are perilously low as the state nears the end of what's typically the wet season and faces a long, long stretch before fall rains can be expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you are a reservoir obsessive, you probably already know about the state Department of Water Resources \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/reservoirs/RES\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Reservoir Storage Summary\u003c/a>. The summary doesn't show you everything that's happening with California water. Rather, it's a quick take on 44 key storage sites, from Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — the two biggest reservoirs in the state and crucial to Central Valley farms and cities from the South Bay to Southern California — to relatively modest-sized sites like Hetch Hetchy, the key reservoir for residents of San Francisco and most of the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today's summary shows the 44 reservoirs collectively at 62 percent of normal for the date. That may not sound so bad — hey, it's nearly two-thirds of what we usually have, right? To understand how scary that level is, you need to look at the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which typically holds at least half of all the water that will flow to the state's farms and cities each year. \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ\" target=\"_blank\">DWR's daily summary\u003c/a> of snow-water equivalents shows the snowpack at just one-fourth of its normal level. With so little water stored in the mountains, runoff will be much lower than normal and the reservoirs won't see the typical spring-early summer surge. Those lake levels we see today? They won't be improving much over the next month or so, and then we'll begin drawing them down as we move into summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How did we get here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/\" target=\"_blank\">The Lowdown\u003c/a> blog has published \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/18/into-the-drought-californias-shrinking-reservoirs/\" target=\"_blank\">a cool visualization\u003c/a> by web developer Victor Powell. It depicts the rise and fall of the key reservoirs during rainy years (2010 and 2011) and the current series of dry, drier and driest years (2012-2014) and dramatizes how low the water level is at a key point in the season. Click on the screen grab below for the full interactive visualization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2014/03/18/into-the-drought-californias-shrinking-reservoirs/\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-130295\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/reservoir-levels-582x640.jpg\" alt=\"Reservoir Levels \" width=\"582\" height=\"640\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And, some other drought notes: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cli>According to \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/03/25/6266813/sacramento-drought-busters-write.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, the city of Sacramento has issued 350 violations to drought-flouters. Sacramento has enacted no-water days because of the drought, of which many residents are unaware. A first violation gets the water users a written notice explaining the rules. The second violation results in a $50 fine; the third costs $200 and subsequent infractions are $1,000 each.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25411117/california-drought-silicon-valley-cities-and-farms-hit\" target=\"_blank\">The San Jose Mercury News\u003c/a>\u003c/em> is reporting that Silicon Valley's largest water provider, the Santa Clara Valley Water District, is cutting allocations of treated drinking water by 20 percent through the end of the year. The notified cities and companies, which provide water to about 1.5 million people, will now be forced to pump more groundwater, urge residents to conserve or tap into other water sources. In addition, about 100 farmers, golf courses and other property owners won't be allowed to use the untreated water they typically have access to.\u003c/li>\n\n\n",
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