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(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California’s historic drought means tight water supplies for everyone this year. It’s putting environmental restoration projects in the spotlight, especially the effort to bring salmon back to the state’s second longest river, the San Joaquin River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican House Speaker John Boehner singled out the project when he visited California last month. The House \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/03/brown-blasts-gop-drought-bill-as-divisive\">recently passed a bill\u003c/a> that would end the restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How you can favor fish over people is something people in my part of the world would never understand,” Boehner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>River That Runs Dry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you’re looking at is the main channel of the river and there’s no water in it,” said Monty Schmitt of the Natural Resources Defense Council, looking at a dusty riverbed outside of Los Banos in the Central Valley. The drought is one reason this stretch isn’t full of water, but it’s not the only reason.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a highly altered river,” said Schmitt. “The federal government built Friant Dam and for 60 years, dried up the river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin River runs from the west slope of the Sierra Nevada down to San Francisco Bay. In the 1940s, a new dam near Fresno corralled the river to irrigate a million acres of Central Valley farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14543\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4290-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4290-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"In many years, this channel connecting the San Joaquin River outside of Los Banos runs dry. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In many years, this channel connecting the San Joaquin River outside of Los Banos runs dry. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Just that change alone had a huge impact on the river,” Schmitt said. “Obviously all the salmon were wiped out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friant Dam diverted so much water that large sections of the river – up to 60 miles – went completely dry in most years. It was the end of the state’s second-largest salmon run, at least until recently. NRDC sued the federal government and in 2006, signed a settlement agreement with farmers and the federal government that launched the return of Chinook salmon to the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Salmon Return to the River\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, a state and federal restoration team pulled a Chinook salmon out of a net they had stretched across the lower San Joaquin, where downstream tributaries get the river flowing again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take measurements on the length of the fish and we check them to see the ripeness for the males and females,” said Matt Bigelow of California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, examining a large female Chinook with a smattering of black spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ripeness – meaning eggs and sperm. These salmon were trying to get upstream to reproduce and were getting some help from a kind of salmon shuttle service. Bigelow and his team loaded them in a tanker truck that would haul them upstream, past the dry part of the river, and release them near Friant Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14546\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/DSC01101-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/DSC01101-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A restoration team brings in a Chinook salmon caught in the lower reaches of the river. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A restoration team brings in a Chinook salmon caught in the lower reaches of the river. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Obviously what we’re doing right here, this is quite a bit of intervention to get fish up into suitable spawning habitat,” said Gerald Hatler, the restoration program manager with California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning salmon to the San Joaquin River means moving them fish-by-fish right now, because the river isn’t quite ready for water to start flowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a lot of things that need to happen,” said Hatler. “There’s still substantial physical barriers to the fish moving upstream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”3493ef1327062e0a6024ff7b5915e9b3″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews need to screen off water pipes and intakes and put in drains to prevent farmland from flooding. Under the restoration plan, the river won’t start flowing again until more of those projects are done, and they’re behind schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 adult salmon were moved upstream during the winter and their young recently hatched. Without river flows, the young won’t be able to reach the ocean on their own, at least not without a miracle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mother Nature gives us a lot of water in the spring of 2014, we may see a large number of those juveniles make their way out,” Hatler said in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chances of that happening are slim to none at this point, so the restoration team is \u003ca href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=16361\">planning to move the young salmon\u003c/a> downstream in trucks, just like their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14547\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4217-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4217-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"An old stretch of the San Joaqun river runs through some of Cannon Michael's 10,000 acres. 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Farmers agreed to give up about 18 percent of their water under the restoration, in exchange for new water supply projects and barriers to keep the river from encroaching onto their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t just put back fish and spend a lot of money trucking them around the river,” Michael said. “Don’t you want to get the river fixed to the point where you can have them go up the river instead of trucking them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first phase of the project is expected to cost $500 million, with the bulk of it coming from Congress. But with the economic downturn, appropriations have been slow. Still, after eight years of work, Michael doesn’t want to see the project in the political cross hairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14544\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4362-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14544\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4362-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Monty Schmitt of the Natural Resources Defense Council stands near a stretch of river that's been cut off for decades. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monty Schmitt of the Natural Resources Defense Council stands near a stretch of river that’s been cut off for decades. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a highly altered river,” said Schmitt. “The federal government built Friant Dam and for 60 years, dried up the river.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Joaquin River runs from the west slope of the Sierra Nevada down to San Francisco Bay. In the 1940s, a new dam near Fresno corralled the river to irrigate a million acres of Central Valley farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14543\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4290-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14543\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4290-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"In many years, this channel connecting the San Joaquin River outside of Los Banos runs dry. 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NRDC sued the federal government and in 2006, signed a settlement agreement with farmers and the federal government that launched the return of Chinook salmon to the river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Salmon Return to the River\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, a state and federal restoration team pulled a Chinook salmon out of a net they had stretched across the lower San Joaquin, where downstream tributaries get the river flowing again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take measurements on the length of the fish and we check them to see the ripeness for the males and females,” said Matt Bigelow of California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife, examining a large female Chinook with a smattering of black spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ripeness – meaning eggs and sperm. These salmon were trying to get upstream to reproduce and were getting some help from a kind of salmon shuttle service. Bigelow and his team loaded them in a tanker truck that would haul them upstream, past the dry part of the river, and release them near Friant Dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14546\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/DSC01101-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14546\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/DSC01101-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A restoration team brings in a Chinook salmon caught in the lower reaches of the river. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A restoration team brings in a Chinook salmon caught in the lower reaches of the river. (Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Obviously what we’re doing right here, this is quite a bit of intervention to get fish up into suitable spawning habitat,” said Gerald Hatler, the restoration program manager with California’s Department of Fish and Wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning salmon to the San Joaquin River means moving them fish-by-fish right now, because the river isn’t quite ready for water to start flowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s still a lot of things that need to happen,” said Hatler. “There’s still substantial physical barriers to the fish moving upstream.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews need to screen off water pipes and intakes and put in drains to prevent farmland from flooding. Under the restoration plan, the river won’t start flowing again until more of those projects are done, and they’re behind schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 300 adult salmon were moved upstream during the winter and their young recently hatched. Without river flows, the young won’t be able to reach the ocean on their own, at least not without a miracle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Mother Nature gives us a lot of water in the spring of 2014, we may see a large number of those juveniles make their way out,” Hatler said in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chances of that happening are slim to none at this point, so the restoration team is \u003ca href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/mp/nepa/nepa_projdetails.cfm?Project_ID=16361\">planning to move the young salmon\u003c/a> downstream in trucks, just like their parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14547\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4217-1024x576.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14547\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/Drought_JoshC-4217-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"An old stretch of the San Joaqun river runs through some of Cannon Michael's 10,000 acres. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An old stretch of the San Joaquin river runs through some of Cannon Michael’s 10,000 acres. (Josh Cassidy/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Political Heat\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is it’s not going according to plan,” said Cannon Michael of Bowles Farming Company. He farms 10,000 acres just outside Los Banos and an old fork of the San Joaquin runs right through it. It’s choked with dry vegetation, but it’s on the list for restoration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With the progress they’re making in terms of physical projects, this is way down the road,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael says there’s been a lot of frustration. Farmers agreed to give up about 18 percent of their water under the restoration, in exchange for new water supply projects and barriers to keep the river from encroaching onto their land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t just put back fish and spend a lot of money trucking them around the river,” Michael said. “Don’t you want to get the river fixed to the point where you can have them go up the river instead of trucking them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first phase of the project is expected to cost $500 million, with the bulk of it coming from Congress. But with the economic downturn, appropriations have been slow. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/3HpL_2pcX2U?list=UU0FISFbEaHFc5ccrIgkZ3mg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">I\u003c/span>t's natural for us humans to think of the current California drought as a human crisis. Yes, it affects all 38 million of us who have staked a claim on this desirable real estate. And yes, people across the United States and beyond who consume our state's bounty of farm products, from almonds to salad greens, could feel the effects, too, as our long, unpitying stretch of dry weather squeezes water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you think we have it bad, consider for a moment the coho salmon who came back to our coast to spawn last fall. That was the subject of a piece we did last week for \"KQED Newsroom\" — see the video above — and it's a story that combines the potentially lethal reality of the drought with the story of a species that by its very nature must fight hard to survive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Coho salmon waited for weeks, then months, for a signal that was alarmingly slow in coming.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Coho, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/fish/cohosalmon.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Oncorhynchus kisutch\u003c/a>, is listed as endangered along a 300-mile stretch of coast from \u003ca href=\"http://mapcarta.com/23474264\" target=\"_blank\">Punta Gorda\u003c/a>, in southern Humboldt County, down to Santa Cruz. In the argot of the federal Endangered Species Act, that status means these \"Central California coast\" coho are at risk of extinction. Here's what that looks like in hard numbers: Researchers say that just half a century ago, 56,000 adult coho spawned along that stretch of coast. That number fell to 18,000 in the 1980s, to 6,000 in the early '90s, and to just 500 in 2009. The population has bounced back some since that low point, and there might have been several thousand fish coming back to the coast last fall to spawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These fish, like most salmonids, are \u003ca href=\"http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/faq/fishfaq1a.html\" target=\"_blank\">anadromous\u003c/a>, meaning they're born in fresh water, live their adult lives at sea, then return to fresh water to spawn. Not only do spawning fish need a place to lay eggs, but their young need a wild refuge where they can grow and mature for more than a year before heading out to salt water. Coho here face extinction because the shady, cool, clean, unimpaired waters they need have been disappearing, too. Streams have been dammed, channeled and diverted, forests on the banks have been clear cut, watersheds have been intensively developed, and waterways have been polluted, filled with sediment, and polluted again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A local stronghold\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an intensive effort to help the fish recover is under way, and coho have a few strongholds left on this part of the coast. One of the places they've managed to hang on is at the edge of the crowded, traffic-choked Bay Area. Several hundred adult salmon swim home to the Lagunitas watershed in western Marin County every year. The watershed includes Lagunitas Creek, which flows down the northwestern flank of Mount Tamalpais and out to Tomales Bay, and many tributaries, the biggest of which is San Geronimo Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coho gather near the mouths of their home streams in the fall. In some places, sandbars block the fish from ascending creeks. In others, like Lagunitas Creek, there's nothing physical to stop them from making their upstream run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, facing sandbars or not, the coho wait for a signal. The first big rain of the season will trigger a surge of water down rivers and streams, breaking through the bars and telling fish it's time to get going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_127089\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/12527233845_4dfc14b9e2_k.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-127089\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/12527233845_4dfc14b9e2_k-640x429.jpg\" alt=\"A female coho salmon, dead after spawning on Lagunitas Creek. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"480\" height=\"322\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A female coho salmon, dead after spawning on Lagunitas Creek. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This season, of course, the signal did not come. Some early rains on the north coast were enough to allow a few coho to enter streams and spawn. But the meager, infrequent rains that fell here did nothing to coax fish toward their spawning grounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those rooting for salmon to beat the odds, or at least for me, it was a dreadful, depressing season. The biologists who follow the ups and downs of the Lagunitas salmon as part of trying to help them recover had reason to expect a large number of coho to surge into the watershed this year. But with day after relentless day of dry, sunny weather during the peak spawning period, from mid-December to mid-January, only a handful of fish ventured upstream, and those few couldn't get close to some of the prime nesting areas. By the beginning of February, even biologists who have watched Lagunitas Creek for years were figuring it was too late to see a spawning run this year — any fish that had been waiting in Tomales Bay had probably died or succumbed to predators, like seals. To make matters worse, the very low flows in the watershed meant that many fish born last year and waiting to migrate to the Pacific this spring might not have a way to get out to sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A deluge, and a late spawning run\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then we got our storm, and the coho got their cue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The week before last, a deluge fell on West Marin. And with the sudden flush of water from Lagunitas Creek, as many as 200 coho (along with their threatened cousins, steelhead trout) ran up streams throughout the Lagunitas watershed. When we went out to see for ourselves what was up with the salmon, Marin Municipal Water District biologist Gregory Andrew said he'd never seen such a late spawning run in his 17 years monitoring Lagunitas Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I went back out to the creek a couple days later with another coho salmon enthusiast in my household. Somehow, I couldn't quite believe the fish would still be there. Lots of people were coming to see them — families with young kids, adults with elderly parents, folks from all over the Bay Area, it seemed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What drew them, exactly? Well, I was determined to be off the clock that second day I went out to the creek, so while I did record a few people spontaneously reacting to what they were seeing — take a listen to the short audio snippet below — I didn't canvass the crowd. But let me make an educated guess or two about what attracts so many people to these fish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A heroic journey and an unseverable connection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We tend to anthropomorphize this world we live in, so on one level, I think we see salmon in all their wild forms as heroic, capable of amazing physical feats on their upstream journey to spawn, an adventure that's only complete when the fish die and surrender their bodies to nourish the streams and forests where they were born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a deeper level, we tend to stand in awe when we glimpse the complexity of nature's workings. The return of the salmon — the instincts and physical cues that bring them back to their natal streams, the physical changes they undergo as they return, how particular and precise they are about choosing their nesting sites — all provide plenty of mystery for us to ponder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the deepest level of all, I think many of us sense an unseverable connection between ourselves, these endangered fish and other threatened plants and animals. We're excited when we first catch sight of a pair of coho facing into the current, getting ready to spawn. Contemplating that scene, I think we also sense the salmon and their plight are telling us something about our own fate and about the world we're bequeathing our children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the long view. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14505\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/caremissions.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14505\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/caremissions.jpg\" alt=\"Under California climate law, gas prices are likely to rise in 2015. (Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under California climate law, gas prices are likely to rise next year. (Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State Senator Darrell Steinberg is proposing a carbon tax on gasoline that would put a price on the pollution that causes climate change. The plan would also preempt a key piece of California’s existing climate law, due to kick in next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s cap-and-trade program, created by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ab32/ab32.htm\">Global Warming Solutions Act\u003c/a> of 2006, puts a limit on how much companies in California can pollute by pumping out greenhouse gases. Right now, it only applies to factories, refineries and other industrial polluters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year for the first time, transportation fuels will come under the program: oil companies will have to account for the emissions from Californians’ cars and trucks. The cost of buying additional pollution permits is one that companies are almost certain to pass along to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘For climate policy to work, it has to sting. I am concerned about who we sting.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Steinberg’s \u003ca href=\"http://sd06.senate.ca.gov/news/2014-02-20-steinberg-announces-major-proposal-strengthen-ca-climate-policy\">plan\u003c/a> would make it more direct, as a tax that we pay at the pump. His reasoning is that while drivers will pay more for gas either way, with a tax the increase is more predictable and transparent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Under my proposal, the price of carbon fuel is projected to rise gradually and predictably,” Steinberg explained \u003ca href=\"http://sd06.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd06.senate.ca.gov/files/MASTER-Press-Club-2014-Speech.pdf\">in a speech\u003c/a> at the Sacramento Press Club on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Democrat says his plan would also ensure that low-income Californians aren’t inordinately burdened by higher taxes, by building in an earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Putting a price on carbon fuels is essential to salvaging our environment. For climate policy to work, it has to sting,” he said. “I am concerned about who we sting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What people in California also need is pollution cuts,” said Tim O’Connor, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.edf.org/climate/california-climate-launch-pad\">Environmental Defense Fund’s California Climate Initiative\u003c/a>. He said that while he supports some of the ideas behind Steinberg’s proposal, he’s concerned it could undermine California’s efforts to charge for the right to pollute, and to reduce greenhouse emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”95fe02a5676e91eab10616cbeecd4297″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cap-and-trade does both, by introducing a cap on emissions and then methodically lowering it, and by allowing companies to buy and trade pollution permits. The program launched in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opting for a tax instead of the market-based program might have been a good idea, said Severin Borenstein, an energy economist at University of California, Berkeley, but at this point, California is too invested in cap-and-trade. “The program is already running,” he said. “The fuels coming in in 2015 is already something that has been very much accounted for and vetted, and it would take a huge change in the program to now take fuels back out of the cap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>, an industry group, welcomed Steinberg’s proposal in a statement. “By acknowledging that the state’s cap-and-trade regulations for fuels are about to have a significant impact on the cost of fuel for consumers, Sen. Steinberg has proposed a transparent carbon tax as an alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg’s bill would need a two-thirds majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sacramento Democrat says his plan would also ensure that low-income Californians aren’t inordinately burdened by higher taxes, by building in an earned income tax credit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Putting a price on carbon fuels is essential to salvaging our environment. For climate policy to work, it has to sting,” he said. “I am concerned about who we sting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What people in California also need is pollution cuts,” said Tim O’Connor, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.edf.org/climate/california-climate-launch-pad\">Environmental Defense Fund’s California Climate Initiative\u003c/a>. He said that while he supports some of the ideas behind Steinberg’s proposal, he’s concerned it could undermine California’s efforts to charge for the right to pollute, and to reduce greenhouse emissions overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cap-and-trade does both, by introducing a cap on emissions and then methodically lowering it, and by allowing companies to buy and trade pollution permits. The program launched in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opting for a tax instead of the market-based program might have been a good idea, said Severin Borenstein, an energy economist at University of California, Berkeley, but at this point, California is too invested in cap-and-trade. “The program is already running,” he said. “The fuels coming in in 2015 is already something that has been very much accounted for and vetted, and it would take a huge change in the program to now take fuels back out of the cap.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>, an industry group, welcomed Steinberg’s proposal in a statement. “By acknowledging that the state’s cap-and-trade regulations for fuels are about to have a significant impact on the cost of fuel for consumers, Sen. Steinberg has proposed a transparent carbon tax as an alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg’s bill would need a two-thirds majority to pass.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Jerry Brown and the leaders of the state Senate and Assembly \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18415\" target=\"_blank\">have unveiled a proposal\u003c/a> to deliver about $690 million in aid -- ranging from housing and food assistance to help in securing emergency water supplies -- to communities feeling the worst effects of California's drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown appeared in Sacramento on Wednesday afternoon with state Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Peréz to announce the relief package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a call to action,\" Brown said. \"We must all do our part to conserve in this drought. The state is doing its part by providing immediate funding for drinking water, food, housing and assistance for water-conserving technologies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bullet-point list of the proposed actions:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$25.3 million from the General Fund for food assistance, which will be structured to maximize the potential federal drought assistance that can be provided for food to those impacted by the drought.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$21 million from the General Fund and federal funds for housing-related assistance for individuals impacted by the drought.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$549 million from the accelerated expenditure of voter-approved bonds, Proposition 84 and Proposition 1E, in the form of infrastructure grants for local and regional projects that are already planned or partially completed to increase local reliability, including recapturing stormwater, to expand the use and distribution of recycled water, to enhance the management and recharging of groundwater storage and to strengthen water conservation.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$20 million transferred from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to the Department of Water Resources (DWR) for direct expenditures and grants to state and local agencies to improve water use efficiency, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from state and local water transportation and management systems.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$14 million for groundwater management across the state, including assistance to disadvantaged communities with groundwater contamination exacerbated by the drought.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$10 million transferred from the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fund for the California Department of Food and Agriculture to invest in irrigation and water pumping systems that reduce water use, energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$10 million transferred from the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fund for the DWR to establish a grant program for state and local agencies to implement residential, commercial or institutional water efficiency projects that reduce water and energy use.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$15 million from the General Fund for Emergency Drinking Water Fund to address emergency water shortages due to drought.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$13 million from the General Fund to augment the California Conservation Corps and local community conservation corps to expand water use efficiency and conservation activities and to reduce fuel loads to prevent catastrophic fires.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The announcement comes amid a partisan battle over federal and state government response to the drought. Republicans in Congress, led by a trio of House members from the San Joaquin Valley, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/03/brown-blasts-gop-drought-bill-as-divisive\" target=\"_blank\">have passed legislation\u003c/a> that would roll back environmental protections and key facets of state water law to secure more water for farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Brown criticized the GOP bill as divisive. And Democrats, led by Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, have responded with \u003ca href=\"http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=43ccd5c3-6b5c-4485-9883-2373d6bcef4c\" target=\"_blank\">a bill\u003c/a> that focuses on adjusting the operation of federal water projects and the flow of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and expediting transfers of water from willing sellers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"audio-wrap\">\n\u003ch2>Listen:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2014/02/20140217science.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: \u003c/strong>On Tuesday, February 18, Pittsburg sent a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/WesPac-DEIR-Letter.pdf\">letter to WesPac\u003c/a>, reopening the comment period on the environmental review process for the project. The comment period had initially closed in September, 2013. This step will prolong the approval process for the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Friday, February 21, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktiv.com/story/24787278/apnewsbreak-railroads-confront-crude-safety\">AP reported\u003c/a> that railroads that haul crude oil had reached an agreement with transportation officials to adopt increased safety measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> The city of Pittsburg, 20 miles east of Oakland, is considering approving a new oil terminal to supply crude to Bay Area refineries. The oil would come via ship, pipeline and railroad. But there have been a number of recent accidents around the United States involving rail shipments of crude oil, and some locals are concerned about the safety of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A Dynamite Factory in Our Backyard’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in January, about 150 people gathered at a playground in Pittsburg. Greg Osorio, a local pastor stepped up to a microphone and got the rally started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to put a dynamite factory in our backyard with crude oil bombs,” he said. “Right next to housing. Turn around and look at that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A cluster of faded yellow metal oil tanks sit just behind the park. Each one is the size of a house. Right now they’re empty, and have been for 15 years. But they soon could be filled with crude oil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Riding the Crude-by-Rail Boom\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/train.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14385 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/train.jpg\" alt=\"Tank cars on the tracks in Pittsburg. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tank cars on the tracks in Pittsburg. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pittsburgterminalproject.com/index.htm\">WesPac\u003c/a>, an Irvine-based company, is proposing to re-open and upgrade the tanks. The property, which includes a power plant that’s still in use, once belonged to PG&E and is now owned by an energy company called NRG. WesPac wants to take over the tanks to bring in oil, store it and redistribute it to Bay Area refineries to make into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other products. The $200 million project would be able to store up to 375,000 barrels of oil in 17 tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s consistent with the types of operations that are going on in that area already,” said \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Art Diefenbach, the project manager for WesPac. This is an existing facility in a traditionally industrial town, he says, so the project makes sense here. After the tanks were decommissioned, neighborhoods grew up around them, but Diefenbach says that won’t present a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be installing additional safety equipment and noise reduction equipment and air pollution control equipment so that it’s actually going to be better than it is today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Better, he means, than sitting empty. Plus, the project would create up to 40 permanent jobs, though those wouldn’t be guaranteed to Pittsburg residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But community members aren’t just concerned about the oil in the tanks; they’re also concerned about the trains that would deliver it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/crudebyrailincalifornia.png\" alt=\"Barrels of oil coming into California by train, 2009-2013. Data from the California Energy Commission.\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrels of oil coming into California by train, 2009-2013. Data from the \u003ca href=\"http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/petroleum/statistics/2013_crude_by_rail.html\">California Energy Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2008, there was no oil coming into California by rail. Last year in December alone, trains carried more than a million barrels into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there’s an oil boom in North Dakota and Canada, explained Tupper Hull, the spokesman for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem that we have is, there’s not a terribly good infrastructure to get oil to the coasts where most of the refining and frankly most of the customers are, for that energy, located,” he said.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without pipelines, oil companies are turning to trains. While crude delivered by rail accounts for a little less than two percent of all the oil California uses now, that may be changing. WesPac is one of six crude-by-rail projects being considered in the state. If they all get approved, rail could provide a quarter or more of California’s oil, according to the California Energy Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Trains, More Accidents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more crude-by-rail has led to more crude-by-rail accidents. Last summer in Quebec, 47 people died when an oil train exploded. 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(Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"307\" height=\"173\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pittsburg residents George and Lyana Monterrey are among those leading protests against the oil terminal. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re in one of these eras where the market has brought us good news, and now we’re catching up on the regulatory and the infrastructure side.” Good news, he said, because this is domestic oil—rather than from overseas—and it’s cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lyana Monterrey, a Pittsburg resident and one of the people leading the charge against the project, isn’t buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not here,” she said. “Not next to a community. You don’t sacrifice people, community for your profits. That’s wrong. That’s an injustice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Pittsburg is\u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.pittsburg.ca.us/index.aspx?page=700\"> currently considering\u003c/a> the project. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: \u003c/strong>On Tuesday, February 18, Pittsburg sent a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/WesPac-DEIR-Letter.pdf\">letter to WesPac\u003c/a>, reopening the comment period on the environmental review process for the project. The comment period had initially closed in September, 2013. This step will prolong the approval process for the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And on Friday, February 21, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktiv.com/story/24787278/apnewsbreak-railroads-confront-crude-safety\">AP reported\u003c/a> that railroads that haul crude oil had reached an agreement with transportation officials to adopt increased safety measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> The city of Pittsburg, 20 miles east of Oakland, is considering approving a new oil terminal to supply crude to Bay Area refineries. The oil would come via ship, pipeline and railroad. But there have been a number of recent accidents around the United States involving rail shipments of crude oil, and some locals are concerned about the safety of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘A Dynamite Factory in Our Backyard’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a Saturday morning in January, about 150 people gathered at a playground in Pittsburg. Greg Osorio, a local pastor stepped up to a microphone and got the rally started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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(Molly Samuel/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tank cars on the tracks in Pittsburg. (Molly Samuel/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pittsburgterminalproject.com/index.htm\">WesPac\u003c/a>, an Irvine-based company, is proposing to re-open and upgrade the tanks. The property, which includes a power plant that’s still in use, once belonged to PG&E and is now owned by an energy company called NRG. WesPac wants to take over the tanks to bring in oil, store it and redistribute it to Bay Area refineries to make into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and other products. The $200 million project would be able to store up to 375,000 barrels of oil in 17 tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s consistent with the types of operations that are going on in that area already,” said \u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Art Diefenbach, the project manager for WesPac. This is an existing facility in a traditionally industrial town, he says, so the project makes sense here. After the tanks were decommissioned, neighborhoods grew up around them, but Diefenbach says that won’t present a problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be installing additional safety equipment and noise reduction equipment and air pollution control equipment so that it’s actually going to be better than it is today,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>Better, he means, than sitting empty. Plus, the project would create up to 40 permanent jobs, though those wouldn’t be guaranteed to Pittsburg residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But community members aren’t just concerned about the oil in the tanks; they’re also concerned about the trains that would deliver it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14372\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14372\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/crudebyrailincalifornia.png\" alt=\"Barrels of oil coming into California by train, 2009-2013. Data from the California Energy Commission.\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barrels of oil coming into California by train, 2009-2013. Data from the \u003ca href=\"http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/petroleum/statistics/2013_crude_by_rail.html\">California Energy Commission\u003c/a>.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2008, there was no oil coming into California by rail. Last year in December alone, trains carried more than a million barrels into the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because there’s an oil boom in North Dakota and Canada, explained Tupper Hull, the spokesman for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The problem that we have is, there’s not a terribly good infrastructure to get oil to the coasts where most of the refining and frankly most of the customers are, for that energy, located,” he said.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without pipelines, oil companies are turning to trains. While crude delivered by rail accounts for a little less than two percent of all the oil California uses now, that may be changing. WesPac is one of six crude-by-rail projects being considered in the state. If they all get approved, rail could provide a quarter or more of California’s oil, according to the California Energy Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More Trains, More Accidents\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more crude-by-rail has led to more crude-by-rail accidents. Last summer in Quebec, 47 people died when an oil train exploded. In the past four months, there have been derailments in Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Alabama and New Brunswick, Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People here are concerned about that happening,” said Andres Soto, an organizer with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbecal.org/\">Communities for a Better Environment\u003c/a>. “They’d rather prevent it than respond to it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pittsburg is a city that’s weathered industrial catastrophes before. In 1944, 320 people were killed when two Navy munitions ships in nearby Port Chicago exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andres Soto says he thinks oil companies aren’t being transparent about safety concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They don’t want to admit the risk,” he said. “Because if they did, the community would say, ‘Not in my backyard.’ And the people have a right to say that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been some responses: The National Transportation Safety Board is \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/business/us-and-canada-urge-new-safety-rules-for-crude-oil-rail-shipments.html\">making recommendations\u003c/a> to improve crude-by-rail safety; Governor Jerry Brown’s budget proposal boosts funding for the agency that cleans up oil spills; Attorney General Kamala Harris wrote a letter to the Pittsburg planning department, expressing her concerns about the WesPac project, particularly the impacts on air quality and the risk of accidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tupper Hull says the companies he works with are aware of the safety concerns, and he expects there will be more regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14383\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 307px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/monterreys.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-14383 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/02/monterreys.jpg\" alt=\"Pittsburg residents George and Lyana Monterrey are among those leading protests against the oil terminal. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/467299859.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125857\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/467299859-640x419.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian on San Francisco's Embarcadero during Bay Area's first major storm of 2014. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrian on San Francisco's Embarcadero during Bay Area's first major storm of 2014. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \u003ccite>((Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anyone who dares discuss our weather, climate or California's drought seems to take it as a moral duty to remind everyone that, despite anything you might have seen or heard during the storm of the past few days, we've still got a major water problem on our hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Craig Miller, an editor in our KQED Science unit, talked about the storm's impact with Jeff Mount, co-founder of the Center for Watershed Studies at UC Davis. The question, as Craig put it, was: \"So, was this a 'February Miracle?' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the answer, according to Mount, is, \"Not even close.\" He pointed to the fact that the rich plume of tropical moisture that brought heavy rain to Northern California (also known as an \u003ca href=\"http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/atmrivers/\" target=\"_blank\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/pineapple-express-bringing-significant-rains-to-droughtstricken-calif\" target=\"_blank\">Pineapple Express\u003c/a>) had a relatively narrow impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We would like to have the next series of storms directed our way, if you can manage that.'\u003ccite>Marty Grimes,\u003cbr>\nSanta Clara Valley Water District\u003c/cite> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"This atmospheric river kind of sat in one spot and hosed one part of the state,\" Mount said. \"We're in a statewide drought, and so this did basically nothing to relieve anything basically south of Sacramento.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The moisture was focused on the North Bay, across the lower part of the Sacramento Valley and into the American River watershed. The storm dumped heavy rain and snow on the Sierra, and that triggered massive flows in the American and its tributaries and has led to a rapid rise in \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?s=FOL\" target=\"_blank\">Folsom Lake\u003c/a>. As of Monday evening, the lake has risen nearly 20 feet since last Wednesday, while storage has increased by 50 percent, from 162,000 to 243,000 acre-feet. Still, Folsom is at just 25 percent of capacity and less than half its average level for early February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the main storage facility for the State Water Project and the state's second-biggest reservoir, has seen an increase of 70,000 acre-feet in the last few days. It's still far below normal levels. The state's other major reservoirs saw less impressive gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guarded optimism and outright dejection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how you see the last few days depends largely on where you happen to be. Reactions from water agency officials Monday ranged from guarded optimism north of San Francisco Bay, where some areas got a deluge, to outright dejection in the South Bay — an area that was merely brushed by the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most attention-getting single statistic from the weekend's rain: the 23.51 inches that fell on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday night. That's a mind-boggling total, and more so when you compare it to the amount of precipitation that falls in nearby locations like San Francisco, where the average \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> rainfall is just under 21 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That big rain total hints at how Mount Tam is different from the surrounding lowlands. With the right set of conditions, the half-mile-high mountain acts like a sail, catching rain-bearing storm winds coming in from the Pacific. And when those winds are loaded with water, as they were this weekend, lots and lots of rain can fall. That combination of factors makes Mount Tam the key to Marin County's year-round water supply. The Marin Municipal Water District's seven reservoirs all depend on streams that originate on the mountain's slopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before last week, Mount Tam was about as dry as everywhere else in the Bay Area. In January, the mountain's Middle Peak weather station recorded .06 of an inch of precipitation — the same amount of non-rain that fell on downtown San Francisco for the month. The prolonged dry spell, dating back to the beginning of January 2013, meant the Marin district's reservoirs have been dwindling at precisely the time of year they should be rising to brim-full. The district reported last week reservoir levels were down to 53 percent of capacity and 66 percent of normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libby Pischel, public information officer for the MMWD, said 14.76 inches of rain fell at Lake Lagunitas on Mount Tam's north flank. As a result, reservoirs had climbed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/waterwatch140209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">64 percent of capacity\u003c/a> on Monday, with runoff still flowing into the district's lakes. That's 76 percent of the normal level for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has requested a 25 percent voluntary cut in water use from customers, and Pischel says the storm doesn't change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though this was a very significant storm and gave us a very significant amount of rain, we do need to be cautious,\" Pischel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that MMWD customers who haven't already shut off their landscape irrigation systems ought to do so now. \"With this rain, you don't need to irrigate,\" Pischel said. \"Since that's the No. 1 use of water, that will save a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A little relief for Willits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm also dumped heavy rain on Willits, a Mendocino County town of 5,000 that's one of 17 communities in the state with critically low water supplies. The city has imposed 35 percent mandatory consumption cuts on all water customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Moore, the Willits city manager, said the town got 6.61 inches of rain since last Wednesday. That increased the city's water supply, she said, but the town's reservoirs are still at just 25 to 30 percent of capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely was helpful, but it has not at all pulled us out of a drought yet,\" Moore said. \"We would need to have several similar storms like that to consider the drought a non-issue.\" She compared the 250 acre feet in water that flowed into Willits' reservoirs to \"pouring a cup of coffee into a 5-gallon bucket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cautious as water managers sound north of the Golden Gate, at least they saw some meaningful improvement in water supplies over the weekend. That's not the case for the South Bay's biggest water agency, the Santa Clara Valley Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for the rain gauges to move\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the rain stayed well to the north of the valley and its reservoirs, and district spokesman Marty Grimes summarized the impact this way: \"Last Thursday, our local reservoir storage was 31.6 percent, and today it's 31.7 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grimes came across as so disappointed by those numbers that I asked, \"Are you as bummed out as you sound?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughed. \"I was looking at the rain gauges and reservoir gauges all weekend long, and I was waiting to see them respond,\" he said. \"And I was looking at that Doppler radar map with those nice red and orange waves (signifying heavy rain) going across the North Bay, and it just made me more and more dejected to see we weren't getting any in the South Bay, or very little.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara Valley district has asked users for a 10 percent voluntary cutback in water consumption. With the district heavily dependent on water supplies from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that will be severely curtailed this year, he urged customers to consider steps like planting drought-tolerant plants. He also had a request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We would like to have the next series of storms directed our way, if you can manage that,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this point, it will be a wait for that next storm. The National Weather Service expects rain to stay well to the north of the central Bay Area for the rest of the week, with a slight chance of rain as far south as San Jose over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Oroville, the main storage facility for the State Water Project and the state's second-biggest reservoir, has seen an increase of 70,000 acre-feet in the last few days. It's still far below normal levels. The state's other major reservoirs saw less impressive gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guarded optimism and outright dejection\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how you see the last few days depends largely on where you happen to be. Reactions from water agency officials Monday ranged from guarded optimism north of San Francisco Bay, where some areas got a deluge, to outright dejection in the South Bay — an area that was merely brushed by the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most attention-getting single statistic from the weekend's rain: the 23.51 inches that fell on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County from Wednesday afternoon through Sunday night. That's a mind-boggling total, and more so when you compare it to the amount of precipitation that falls in nearby locations like San Francisco, where the average \u003cem>annual\u003c/em> rainfall is just under 21 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That big rain total hints at how Mount Tam is different from the surrounding lowlands. With the right set of conditions, the half-mile-high mountain acts like a sail, catching rain-bearing storm winds coming in from the Pacific. And when those winds are loaded with water, as they were this weekend, lots and lots of rain can fall. That combination of factors makes Mount Tam the key to Marin County's year-round water supply. The Marin Municipal Water District's seven reservoirs all depend on streams that originate on the mountain's slopes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before last week, Mount Tam was about as dry as everywhere else in the Bay Area. In January, the mountain's Middle Peak weather station recorded .06 of an inch of precipitation — the same amount of non-rain that fell on downtown San Francisco for the month. The prolonged dry spell, dating back to the beginning of January 2013, meant the Marin district's reservoirs have been dwindling at precisely the time of year they should be rising to brim-full. The district reported last week reservoir levels were down to 53 percent of capacity and 66 percent of normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And after the storm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Libby Pischel, public information officer for the MMWD, said 14.76 inches of rain fell at Lake Lagunitas on Mount Tam's north flank. As a result, reservoirs had climbed to \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/waterwatch140209.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">64 percent of capacity\u003c/a> on Monday, with runoff still flowing into the district's lakes. That's 76 percent of the normal level for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has requested a 25 percent voluntary cut in water use from customers, and Pischel says the storm doesn't change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even though this was a very significant storm and gave us a very significant amount of rain, we do need to be cautious,\" Pischel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that MMWD customers who haven't already shut off their landscape irrigation systems ought to do so now. \"With this rain, you don't need to irrigate,\" Pischel said. \"Since that's the No. 1 use of water, that will save a lot.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A little relief for Willits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm also dumped heavy rain on Willits, a Mendocino County town of 5,000 that's one of 17 communities in the state with critically low water supplies. The city has imposed 35 percent mandatory consumption cuts on all water customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Moore, the Willits city manager, said the town got 6.61 inches of rain since last Wednesday. That increased the city's water supply, she said, but the town's reservoirs are still at just 25 to 30 percent of capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It definitely was helpful, but it has not at all pulled us out of a drought yet,\" Moore said. \"We would need to have several similar storms like that to consider the drought a non-issue.\" She compared the 250 acre feet in water that flowed into Willits' reservoirs to \"pouring a cup of coffee into a 5-gallon bucket.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As cautious as water managers sound north of the Golden Gate, at least they saw some meaningful improvement in water supplies over the weekend. That's not the case for the South Bay's biggest water agency, the Santa Clara Valley Water District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for the rain gauges to move\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the rain stayed well to the north of the valley and its reservoirs, and district spokesman Marty Grimes summarized the impact this way: \"Last Thursday, our local reservoir storage was 31.6 percent, and today it's 31.7 percent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grimes came across as so disappointed by those numbers that I asked, \"Are you as bummed out as you sound?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He laughed. \"I was looking at the rain gauges and reservoir gauges all weekend long, and I was waiting to see them respond,\" he said. \"And I was looking at that Doppler radar map with those nice red and orange waves (signifying heavy rain) going across the North Bay, and it just made me more and more dejected to see we weren't getting any in the South Bay, or very little.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara Valley district has asked users for a 10 percent voluntary cutback in water consumption. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Tracey Taylor\u003cbr>\n\u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125804\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain1-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Eucalyptus grove on the Nimitz Trail. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eucalyptus grove on the Nimitz Trail. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It rained on and off — but mostly on — all weekend and, according to the forecast, that is all we are likely to get, at least for a little while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The precipitation prompted Berkeley residents who braved the weather to shoot some great images and video. Many shared their footage with KQED News Associate Berkeleyside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125805\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain2-640x422.jpg\" alt=\"Rain on Jade flowers. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain on jade flowers. (Colleen Neff/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125806\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain3.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125806\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain3-640x478.png\" alt=\"Codornices Creek on Feb. 8, 2014, (Jef Poskanzer/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Codornices Creek on Feb. 8, 2014, (Jef Poskanzer/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain4.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125808\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain4-640x456.jpg\" alt=\"Keeping dry in downtown Berkeley wasn't easy this weekend. (Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keeping dry in downtown Berkeley wasn't easy this weekend. (Pete Rosos/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain5.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125809\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain5-640x430.png\" alt=\"Pluviophile’s delight. (Gina g10/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pluviophile’s delight. (Gina g10/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain6.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125811\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain6-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"A gushing Vicente Creek. (Andy Fremder/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A gushing Vicente Creek. (Andy Fremder/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain8.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125812\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain8-640x423.jpg\" alt=\"Codornices Creek in West Berkeley on tFeb. 8, 2014, (William Newton/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Codornices Creek in West Berkeley on Feb. 8, 2014, (William Newton/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 391px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain7.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-125813\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/rain7.jpg\" alt=\"Swollen creek at Live Oak Park on Feb. 9, 2014 (Steven Fruhwirth/Berkeleyside)\" width=\"391\" height=\"524\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swollen creek at Live Oak Park on Feb. 9, 2014 (Steven Fruhwirth/Berkeleyside)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"//www.youtube.com/embed/Owc7X0tW7OE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca href=\"http://eepurl.com/lh_3b\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside's Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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