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Flooding in Sonoma County closed a number of rural roads Saturday and Sunday (see \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the county’s current road closures list\u003c/a>). The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa features \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/gallery/gallery/20140208.208009996.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a good picture gallery\u003c/a> of shots from around the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has brought a fantastic-sounding amount of rain to some of the highland areas north of the Golden Gate. Some locales in the Russian River watershed had gotten close to a foot of rain in the 72 hours beginning Wednesday afternoon and ending Saturday at 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most startling rainfall report I’ve seen as I look through the various precipitation tables comes from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=mtr&sid=MDEC1&num=72&raw=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peak rain gauge\u003c/a> on Mount Tamalpais. More than 10 inches of rain fell there Saturday, and the total since the current round of wet weather began Wednesday evening is \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-09T20:38:00+00:00\">15.73 inches\u003c/del> \u003cstrong>20.67 inches \u003c/strong>(and counting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Mount Tamalpais is a famously wet place during winter storms. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/Rainfall_History_Lake_Lagunitas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainfall at Lake Lagunitas\u003c/a>, a small reservoir on the north flank of the mountain, averages 52 inches of rain a year (compared with about 21 inches a year in downtown San Francisco, about 10 miles or so away). But, like the rest of the state, it’s been dry up there this year. Middle Peak got just .06 of an inch of rain in January — the same as San Francisco — and for the water year beginning last July 1, it had recorded 7.28 inches of precipitation before the first drops of rain started to fall around sunset on Wednesday. Going into Sunday morning, that total stands at \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-09T20:38:00+00:00\">23.01 inches\u003c/del> \u003cstrong>27.95 inches\u003c/strong>. It’ll be interesting to see how that affects the water supply for the Marin Municipal Water District, which is almost entirely dependent on storing water running off Mount Tam. As of last week, the district’s reservoirs were a little more than half full and at just \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/waterwatch140202.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">64 percent of average storage\u003c/a> for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s safe to say the rest of the Bay Area hasn’t seen anything like the deluge that’s been pouring down on the North Bay. But most of the region have gotten a decent soaking. The big exception so far: most of the South Bay east of the Skyline Boulevard crest and Santa Cruz Mountains. For instance, Palo Alto got .12 of an inch and Moffett Field .13 in the 72 hours ending Sunday morning. Yes, that’s less than 1 percent of what’s fallen on Mount Tam, a result of topography and the fact that the richest source of moisture for the current storm has been focused far to the north of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the NWS regional rainfall report with three-day storm totals for dozens of locations through Sunday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"//www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=PNS&sid=MTR&version=0\">Public Information Statement: 3-Day Rainfall Reports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong> First, let’s remind everyone: The drought’s not over. All the meteorological, climatological and hydrological experts agree: Most of California, including the Bay Area, has gone far too long with far too little precipitation for the current storm to do anything more than dent the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that having been said: Parts of the Bay Area sure are getting a lot of rain. The deluge, a half-inch or more per hour at times in the North Bay, prompted the National Weather Service this morning to issue a flood advisory for most of Marin and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much rain are we talking about for the past three days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-08T21:44:53+00:00\">As much as 10\u003c/del> \u003cstrong>More than 11 inches\u003c/strong> over some of the peaks and ridges of the North Bay, more than half a foot in Napa, nearly 5 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lower totals have been recorded around the Bay shore and in the South Bay: an inch and a half in San Francisco, a little more than an inch in Oakland, three-quarters of an inch in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a super-complete regional list with three-day storm totals through this morning from the National Weather Service:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"//www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=PNS&sid=MTR&version=0\">Public Information Statement: 3-Day Rainfall Reports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NWS Forecasters say most of the Bay Area is in for rain off and on through Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Friday 4:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong> Rainfall totals so far today are bearing out the forecast for heavier precipitation to the north. Willits, the Mendocino County town that’s down to 300 acre-feet of reservoir water for its 5,000 residents, has the highest “local” total (it’s about 150 miles northwest of San Francisco) with 1.32 inches in the last 24 hours. St. Helena in the Napa Valley has .96 of an inch in the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some 24-hour rainfall totals, as of 4 p.m. Friday (mostly from the National Weather Service’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statewide report\u003c/a>):\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley .34\u003cbr>\nMount Diablo .35\u003cbr>\nMount Umunhum .31\u003cbr>\nNapa .26\u003cbr>\nOakland Airport .24\u003cbr>\nPalo Alto .08\u003cbr>\nPetaluma .48\u003cbr>\nSt. Helena .96\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco .27\u003cbr>\nSFO .18\u003cbr>\nSan Jose .10\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa .59\u003cbr>\nWillits 1.32\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Friday 10:45 a.m.: \u003c/strong>The National Weather Service reports our next storm, promising the biggest rain since the very rainy December of 2012, is already starting to fill rain gauges in the North Bay. Locations in Napa and Sonoma counties have gotten more than a quarter-inch of precipitation already this morning. And the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NWS forecast office in Monterey says\u003c/a> the storm is on track to deliver a real wallop of to our thirsty, thirsty region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rain is expected to arrive early Saturday, between roughly 4 a.m. and 10 a.m., depending on where you live. The precipitation will slacken or even stop by midday or early afternoon, though it’s expected to continue in the North Bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains. Another round of rain is expected throughout the region on Sunday. After that, at least a couple of dry days are forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is expected to bring heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada, and winter storm warnings are in effect for virtually the entire range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Thursday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood advisories for Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties expire at 10:45 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest forecast from the National Weather Service\u003c/a>, as of 9:24 a.m. We edited to strip out the weather-geek stuff. As KQED’s Paul Rogers told us yesterday, the storm won’t end the drought, but will reduce fire risk. Rogers said we’re in for the most rain in 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wet weather expected through the weekend. Light rain continues across the Bay Area this morning with occasionally moderate to heavy showers from Santa Cruz south. Rain and showers should begin to taper off later this morning as the current storm system exits the area and some drier air works its way in.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A moister storm system is expected to impact the area, beginning roughly late Friday afternoon and lasting through at least Sunday. This storm system will result in urban and possibly small stream flooding.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Precipitation forecast to begin in the North Bay area early Friday afternoon, spreading south throughout the day. Around 1.25 inches arriving to the coast Friday evening, rising to 1.39 inches by late Saturday morning and slowly decreasing Saturday night into Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The current storm total precipitation forecast from Friday afternoon through Sunday: up to 7.5 inches of rainfall along the North Bay coastal hills, around 1.5 inches in the San Francisco Bay Area and 2.5 inches in the Santa Cruz mountains. These are substantial rainfall values, which will result in urban and possibly small stream flooding this weekend. Please be sure to clean your storm drains and gutters in advance of this rainfall.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/80323f2e34a96179020b5792bab2a2d1/tumblr_n0jp3wILnU1tp9boeo1_1280.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map from the National Weather Service\u003c/a>. As you can see, 3 to 5 inches of rain are forecast throughout the Bay Area, starting tonight through the weekend. KQED Science Managing Editor Paul Rogers tells us this won’t be enough rain to end the drought, but will be enough, if it materializes, to reduce fire risk and clear the air. It would also be the biggest storm in 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/nwsmap-640x499.png\" alt=\"nwsmap\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the parts of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forecast\u003c/a> from the NWS related to the wet stuff ….\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Expecting rainfall to begin to develop across the North Bay late this evening and spread southward overnight. Fairly widespread rain will continue through the morning hours on Thursday. Areawide forecast amounts through this event will likely range from 1/2″ to 3/4″. A few of the higher resolution models indicate upward of 1″ to 1.5″ will be possible in the coastal mountains … especially the Santa Cruz mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rain expected during Thursday morning rush hour, commuters are urged to drive with caution and allow for extra driving time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain chances will taper off Thursday night into early Friday morning across much of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A much deeper plume of moisture with origins from the central Pacific is forecast to impact the region this coming weekend. While confidence is high for the overall set up … the exact placement remains a forecast challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The general consensus keeps the deepest moisture plume across Northern California and the North Bay. Rain totals for this weekend across the North Bay are expected to reach 3 to 5 inches with isolated totals upwards of 6+ inches in the North Bay coastal mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rain appears to be Saturday morning as a mid/upper level disturbance passes through. Areas from the Golden Gate down to Santa Cruz can pick up an additional 2 to 3 inches of rainfall this weekend. With the best plume of moisture to the north of the Monterey Bay area … rainfall amounts between 1/2″ to 1.25″ (highest in the Santa Lucias) will be possible …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekend rain chances diminish late Sunday into Monday as a stronger mid/upper level trough sweeps through the region and drier air filters in aloft…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For days 7 and 8 it appears the jet stream will be focused over the Pacific Northwest with drier/warmer conditions across Central California. Will keep slight chance across our northern areas with a possibility of another weak system moving through. Will continue to monitor the development and forecast placement of this\u003cbr>\nweekend’s atmospheric river event in the coming days. Stay tuned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, water reserves across the state are only at about 10 to 20 percent of normal. The water shortage isn’t hitting all stakeholders equally. During a discussion on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402050900\">“Forum”\u003c/a> today, Paul Rogers talked about who the dry spell is hitting the hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I would say overall, statewide, if you put them in sort of a ranking, ranchers are being hit the worst — they don’t have green grass that they need for their herds, they’re having to buy hay, and it’s very expensive to feed their cattle. And many of them are having to sell cattle off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second are farmers. Farmers are not getting water from the Delta and from surface streams and rivers, so as a result they’re having to pump ground water even more heavily in the Central Valley than they normally do. They’re going to be fallowing hundreds of thousand of acres of land this summer. Unemployment in the Central Valley is going to skyrocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third is small towns and small water districts. Some of them are running very low on water because a lot of them don’t have the money to have backup supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally the groups that have it the easiest in the state, I would argue at this point, are the large cities: Los Angeles, the folks that get their water from the Hetch Hetchy system here in the Bay Area — San Francisco, the Peninsula, folks in the EBMUD system and then folks in the Santa Clara Valley Water District area down south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason they have a relatively better situation is that they have hundreds of millions of dollars in their budgets, they have big staffs, and since the last drought in 1987 and ’92 they have been running decades of rebates and conservation programs to keep demand down. They’ve put in backup supplies like in Contra Costa where they built Los Vaqueros Reservoir over the last decade. They’ve been storing water in underground banks, so they have plan B, plan C and plan D.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rogers pointed out that San Francisco has received only 2.4 inches of rain since July 1 rather than its normal 14 inches, and that rainfall totals all around the Bay Area are only 10 to 20 percent of normal, which puts us in the driest period since California became a state in 1850, when records were first kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other drought news, federal officials announced today they’re offering $14 million in competitive grants. The $1 million grants are earmarked for projects that improve water efficiency on agricultural lands — for example, to decrease how much water is lost through evaporation or other means. Applications are due March 24 and projects must include farmers, water districts and other stakeholders. Federal officials also said they’ve developed drought contingency plans for endangered species, including plans to rescue stranded fish from rivers or streams.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most startling rainfall report I’ve seen as I look through the various precipitation tables comes from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?wfo=mtr&sid=MDEC1&num=72&raw=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle Peak rain gauge\u003c/a> on Mount Tamalpais. More than 10 inches of rain fell there Saturday, and the total since the current round of wet weather began Wednesday evening is \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-09T20:38:00+00:00\">15.73 inches\u003c/del> \u003cstrong>20.67 inches \u003c/strong>(and counting).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, Mount Tamalpais is a famously wet place during winter storms. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/Rainfall_History_Lake_Lagunitas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rainfall at Lake Lagunitas\u003c/a>, a small reservoir on the north flank of the mountain, averages 52 inches of rain a year (compared with about 21 inches a year in downtown San Francisco, about 10 miles or so away). But, like the rest of the state, it’s been dry up there this year. Middle Peak got just .06 of an inch of rain in January — the same as San Francisco — and for the water year beginning last July 1, it had recorded 7.28 inches of precipitation before the first drops of rain started to fall around sunset on Wednesday. Going into Sunday morning, that total stands at \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-09T20:38:00+00:00\">23.01 inches\u003c/del> \u003cstrong>27.95 inches\u003c/strong>. It’ll be interesting to see how that affects the water supply for the Marin Municipal Water District, which is almost entirely dependent on storing water running off Mount Tam. As of last week, the district’s reservoirs were a little more than half full and at just \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/documents/waterwatch140202.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">64 percent of average storage\u003c/a> for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s safe to say the rest of the Bay Area hasn’t seen anything like the deluge that’s been pouring down on the North Bay. But most of the region have gotten a decent soaking. The big exception so far: most of the South Bay east of the Skyline Boulevard crest and Santa Cruz Mountains. For instance, Palo Alto got .12 of an inch and Moffett Field .13 in the 72 hours ending Sunday morning. Yes, that’s less than 1 percent of what’s fallen on Mount Tam, a result of topography and the fact that the richest source of moisture for the current storm has been focused far to the north of Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the NWS regional rainfall report with three-day storm totals for dozens of locations through Sunday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"//www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=PNS&sid=MTR&version=0\">Public Information Statement: 3-Day Rainfall Reports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:45 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong> First, let’s remind everyone: The drought’s not over. All the meteorological, climatological and hydrological experts agree: Most of California, including the Bay Area, has gone far too long with far too little precipitation for the current storm to do anything more than dent the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that having been said: Parts of the Bay Area sure are getting a lot of rain. The deluge, a half-inch or more per hour at times in the North Bay, prompted the National Weather Service this morning to issue a flood advisory for most of Marin and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How much rain are we talking about for the past three days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cdel datetime=\"2014-02-08T21:44:53+00:00\">As much as 10\u003c/del> \u003cstrong>More than 11 inches\u003c/strong> over some of the peaks and ridges of the North Bay, more than half a foot in Napa, nearly 5 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lower totals have been recorded around the Bay shore and in the South Bay: an inch and a half in San Francisco, a little more than an inch in Oakland, three-quarters of an inch in downtown San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a super-complete regional list with three-day storm totals through this morning from the National Weather Service:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"//www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=PNS&sid=MTR&version=0\">Public Information Statement: 3-Day Rainfall Reports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NWS Forecasters say most of the Bay Area is in for rain off and on through Sunday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Friday 4:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong> Rainfall totals so far today are bearing out the forecast for heavier precipitation to the north. Willits, the Mendocino County town that’s down to 300 acre-feet of reservoir water for its 5,000 residents, has the highest “local” total (it’s about 150 miles northwest of San Francisco) with 1.32 inches in the last 24 hours. St. Helena in the Napa Valley has .96 of an inch in the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some 24-hour rainfall totals, as of 4 p.m. Friday (mostly from the National Weather Service’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statewide report\u003c/a>):\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley .34\u003cbr>\nMount Diablo .35\u003cbr>\nMount Umunhum .31\u003cbr>\nNapa .26\u003cbr>\nOakland Airport .24\u003cbr>\nPalo Alto .08\u003cbr>\nPetaluma .48\u003cbr>\nSt. Helena .96\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco .27\u003cbr>\nSFO .18\u003cbr>\nSan Jose .10\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa .59\u003cbr>\nWillits 1.32\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Friday 10:45 a.m.: \u003c/strong>The National Weather Service reports our next storm, promising the biggest rain since the very rainy December of 2012, is already starting to fill rain gauges in the North Bay. Locations in Napa and Sonoma counties have gotten more than a quarter-inch of precipitation already this morning. And the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NWS forecast office in Monterey says\u003c/a> the storm is on track to deliver a real wallop of to our thirsty, thirsty region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rain is expected to arrive early Saturday, between roughly 4 a.m. and 10 a.m., depending on where you live. The precipitation will slacken or even stop by midday or early afternoon, though it’s expected to continue in the North Bay hills and Santa Cruz Mountains. Another round of rain is expected throughout the region on Sunday. After that, at least a couple of dry days are forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is expected to bring heavy snow to the Sierra Nevada, and winter storm warnings are in effect for virtually the entire range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Thursday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood advisories for Alameda, Santa Clara and San Mateo counties expire at 10:45 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest forecast from the National Weather Service\u003c/a>, as of 9:24 a.m. We edited to strip out the weather-geek stuff. As KQED’s Paul Rogers told us yesterday, the storm won’t end the drought, but will reduce fire risk. Rogers said we’re in for the most rain in 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Wet weather expected through the weekend. Light rain continues across the Bay Area this morning with occasionally moderate to heavy showers from Santa Cruz south. Rain and showers should begin to taper off later this morning as the current storm system exits the area and some drier air works its way in.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A moister storm system is expected to impact the area, beginning roughly late Friday afternoon and lasting through at least Sunday. This storm system will result in urban and possibly small stream flooding.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Precipitation forecast to begin in the North Bay area early Friday afternoon, spreading south throughout the day. Around 1.25 inches arriving to the coast Friday evening, rising to 1.39 inches by late Saturday morning and slowly decreasing Saturday night into Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The current storm total precipitation forecast from Friday afternoon through Sunday: up to 7.5 inches of rainfall along the North Bay coastal hills, around 1.5 inches in the San Francisco Bay Area and 2.5 inches in the Santa Cruz mountains. These are substantial rainfall values, which will result in urban and possibly small stream flooding this weekend. Please be sure to clean your storm drains and gutters in advance of this rainfall.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s the \u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"http://25.media.tumblr.com/80323f2e34a96179020b5792bab2a2d1/tumblr_n0jp3wILnU1tp9boeo1_1280.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">map from the National Weather Service\u003c/a>. As you can see, 3 to 5 inches of rain are forecast throughout the Bay Area, starting tonight through the weekend. KQED Science Managing Editor Paul Rogers tells us this won’t be enough rain to end the drought, but will be enough, if it materializes, to reduce fire risk and clear the air. It would also be the biggest storm in 14 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-125362\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/nwsmap-640x499.png\" alt=\"nwsmap\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the parts of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forecast\u003c/a> from the NWS related to the wet stuff ….\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Expecting rainfall to begin to develop across the North Bay late this evening and spread southward overnight. Fairly widespread rain will continue through the morning hours on Thursday. Areawide forecast amounts through this event will likely range from 1/2″ to 3/4″. A few of the higher resolution models indicate upward of 1″ to 1.5″ will be possible in the coastal mountains … especially the Santa Cruz mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rain expected during Thursday morning rush hour, commuters are urged to drive with caution and allow for extra driving time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain chances will taper off Thursday night into early Friday morning across much of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A much deeper plume of moisture with origins from the central Pacific is forecast to impact the region this coming weekend. While confidence is high for the overall set up … the exact placement remains a forecast challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The general consensus keeps the deepest moisture plume across Northern California and the North Bay. Rain totals for this weekend across the North Bay are expected to reach 3 to 5 inches with isolated totals upwards of 6+ inches in the North Bay coastal mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heaviest rain appears to be Saturday morning as a mid/upper level disturbance passes through. Areas from the Golden Gate down to Santa Cruz can pick up an additional 2 to 3 inches of rainfall this weekend. With the best plume of moisture to the north of the Monterey Bay area … rainfall amounts between 1/2″ to 1.25″ (highest in the Santa Lucias) will be possible …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weekend rain chances diminish late Sunday into Monday as a stronger mid/upper level trough sweeps through the region and drier air filters in aloft…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For days 7 and 8 it appears the jet stream will be focused over the Pacific Northwest with drier/warmer conditions across Central California. Will keep slight chance across our northern areas with a possibility of another weak system moving through. Will continue to monitor the development and forecast placement of this\u003cbr>\nweekend’s atmospheric river event in the coming days. Stay tuned.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, water reserves across the state are only at about 10 to 20 percent of normal. The water shortage isn’t hitting all stakeholders equally. During a discussion on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201402050900\">“Forum”\u003c/a> today, Paul Rogers talked about who the dry spell is hitting the hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“I would say overall, statewide, if you put them in sort of a ranking, ranchers are being hit the worst — they don’t have green grass that they need for their herds, they’re having to buy hay, and it’s very expensive to feed their cattle. And many of them are having to sell cattle off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Second are farmers. Farmers are not getting water from the Delta and from surface streams and rivers, so as a result they’re having to pump ground water even more heavily in the Central Valley than they normally do. They’re going to be fallowing hundreds of thousand of acres of land this summer. Unemployment in the Central Valley is going to skyrocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Third is small towns and small water districts. Some of them are running very low on water because a lot of them don’t have the money to have backup supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And finally the groups that have it the easiest in the state, I would argue at this point, are the large cities: Los Angeles, the folks that get their water from the Hetch Hetchy system here in the Bay Area — San Francisco, the Peninsula, folks in the EBMUD system and then folks in the Santa Clara Valley Water District area down south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason they have a relatively better situation is that they have hundreds of millions of dollars in their budgets, they have big staffs, and since the last drought in 1987 and ’92 they have been running decades of rebates and conservation programs to keep demand down. They’ve put in backup supplies like in Contra Costa where they built Los Vaqueros Reservoir over the last decade. They’ve been storing water in underground banks, so they have plan B, plan C and plan D.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Rogers pointed out that San Francisco has received only 2.4 inches of rain since July 1 rather than its normal 14 inches, and that rainfall totals all around the Bay Area are only 10 to 20 percent of normal, which puts us in the driest period since California became a state in 1850, when records were first kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125162\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8399_465639979-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-125162\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/RS8399_465639979-lpr-640x412.jpg\" alt=\"(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tuesday 4:45 p.m. Update: \u003c/strong>The House Rules Committee voted to send Republican-sponsored water legislation to the floor for action Wednesday. The panel voted 9-3 vote to approve full House consideration of the bill, \u003ca href=\"http://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/hr3964/BILLS-113hr3964ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HR3964\u003c/a>, sponsored by the state’s GOP delegation and advertised as emergency drought relief for farm communities in the San Joaquin Valley. The 68-page measure would roll back a wide range of environmental protections for endangered species, kill the decades-long effort to restore flows, and salmon, to the San Joaquin River and pre-empt state water and endangered species laws. Those measures are all designed to allow more water to be sent from federal pumps in the Delta to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the bill, including Gov. 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He offered an amendment to try to protect those 2009 measures, which included new rules for groundwater pumping and a new state commission to investigate water supply and environmental issues in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s at least make sure that we’re not pre-empting, through the sweeping pre-emption language in this bill, the best thing to happen in California water in half a century,” Huffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nunes called the pre-emption issue “total nonsense,” describing it as “a false red herring put up by the left because they know what they’ve done to our region is wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. John Garamendi, an East Bay Democrat, offered an amendment to the GOP bill that would remove what he termed its most “contentious” provisions and instead call for pursuing aggressive conservation, recycling and new water storage programs. Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, offered an amendment that would set up a bipartisan congressional task force to address California’s water supply issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unlikely that any of the Democratic amendments will survive in the heavily Republican House. It’s equally doubtful that the Democrat-controlled Senate will pass or even act on the bill, which is opposed by Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post: \u003c/strong> Gov. Jerry Brown has come out against an emergency water bill introduced by California’s House Republicans, saying the legislation would do little to provide drought relief and instead would reopen divisions among all those with an interest in how the state’s water supply is divvied up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency drought legislation was \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/22/3727117/house-speaker-touts-drought-emergency.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">touted earlier this month\u003c/a> as a temporary measure to get more water to Central Valley farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what has emerged now is \u003ca href=\"http://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/hr3964/BILLS-113hr3964ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HR3964\u003c/a>. It’s a sweeping and apparently permanent measure that, in its 68 pages, would: a) roll back a wide range of environmental protections for endangered species; b) kill the decades-long effort to restore flows, and salmon runs, to the San Joaquin River, and; c) pre-empt state water and endangered species laws. Those measures are all designed to allow more water to be sent from federal pumps in the Delta to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Brown denounced the bill, calling it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… an unwelcome and divisive intrusion into California’s efforts to manage this severe crisis. It would override state laws and protections, and mandate that certain water interests come out ahead of others. It falsely suggest the promise of water relief when that is simply not possible given the scarcity of water supplies. H.R. 396 would interfere with our ability to respond effectively and flexibly to the current emergency, and would re-open old water wounds undermining years of progress toward reaching a collaborative long-term solution to our water needs.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The bill, which has been titled “The Sacramento-San Valley Emergency Water Delivery Act,” is scheduled for consideration by the full House on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>McCarthy: No More ‘Fish Before Families’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a Republican from Bakersfield who is House majority whip, defended the bill and issued his own blast after Brown’s statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This bill ends the madness of putting fish before families and creates a solution to ensure consistent water deliveries for our communities when Mother Nature blesses us with precipitation,” McCarthy said in an emailed statement to the Associated Press Monday. “Any other proposed idea to ameliorate the effects of today’s drought would not be felt for over a dozen years. Our communities cannot wait.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The battle over water legislation comes as the state continues to suffer through one of the worst droughts in its history. That was underlined Friday when the California Department of Water Resources announced that State Water Project customers — agencies that serve about 25 million people statewide and irrigate about 750,000 of farmland — \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/31/state-water-project-deliveries-canceled-because-of-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will get no water this year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current drought, however, is just part of the context for HR3964. One of the bill’s architects, Rep. 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Jerry Brown has come out against an emergency water bill introduced by California’s House Republicans, saying the legislation would do little to provide drought relief and instead would reopen divisions among all those with an interest in how the state’s water supply is divvied up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emergency drought legislation was \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/22/3727117/house-speaker-touts-drought-emergency.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">touted earlier this month\u003c/a> as a temporary measure to get more water to Central Valley farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what has emerged now is \u003ca href=\"http://beta.congress.gov/113/bills/hr3964/BILLS-113hr3964ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HR3964\u003c/a>. It’s a sweeping and apparently permanent measure that, in its 68 pages, would: a) roll back a wide range of environmental protections for endangered species; b) kill the decades-long effort to restore flows, and salmon runs, to the San Joaquin River, and; c) pre-empt state water and endangered species laws. Those measures are all designed to allow more water to be sent from federal pumps in the Delta to farmers in the San Joaquin Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter, Brown denounced the bill, calling it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>… an unwelcome and divisive intrusion into California’s efforts to manage this severe crisis. It would override state laws and protections, and mandate that certain water interests come out ahead of others. It falsely suggest the promise of water relief when that is simply not possible given the scarcity of water supplies. 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In recent years, the group has worked to halt the proposed expansion of a \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201002100850/a\" target=\"_blank\">nearby toxic waste landfill\u003c/a> -- already the largest in the western United States -- and has pointed to the birth defects as a reason to block it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2010 state investigation ruled out possible causes for the birth defects: It wasn’t the contaminated groundwater and it wasn’t the toxic waste dump.\u003cbr>\nBut Mares-Alatorre and community members question that conclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s killing the babies of Kettleman City?” Mares-Alatorre asks. “We still don’t know. Is it the water? Could be. Is it Chem Waste? Could be. Is it a combination of everything? 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Quiroa says the company has been committed to preserving the environment, and contributing to the nearby community, for three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve helped this community above and beyond whatever we’re told to do, per permit requirements,” Quiroa says. “In good times we contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the company agreed to pay off the debt because it’s the right thing to do, not because they intended to buy support.\u003cbr>\nBut Mares-Alatorre is skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know Chem Waste likes to frame it as they’re being good neighbors, but the truth is that they’re buying good will,” she says. “If you give me a choice between my good will and the health of the community, the health of my family, I’m going to choose the health of my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what being debt-free would mean to Kettleman City: Residents could get a more affordable rate on water from the California Aqueduct. 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And basically when we look at the drought, we know that it hit ranchers really badly because they do not have enough water to grow grass for cattle, and we know it's hurting farmers because they are not getting as much water from the Delta and other sources. It’s not really affecting a lot of big urban water areas like the San Francisco PUC, the Santa Clara Valley Water District, the L.A. Water Department, because those areas have big staffs, hundreds of millions of dollars in resources, and they have spent the last 20 or 30 years putting in safety nets: new reservoirs, conservation programs, recycled water. And these little districts with the small number of ratepayers do really not have a safety net.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> So they just have not had the money, the wherewithal, to prepare for this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ROGERS:\u003c/strong> Exactly. Many of them were vulnerable to begin with. In some cases, they couldn't even maintain and fix their equipment as it was. And then when they have a drought that gives you the least rain in the history of California back to 1850. It’s a tipping point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> So assuming it doesn't rain much in the next few weeks, what happens when you run out of water? You turn on the tap and what happens?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ROGERS:\u003c/strong> Depending on what community you're in, there will be different solutions. In some of these communities, what they're going to do is connect a pipeline from their water supply to another water supply that has plenty of water. If you're in a more rural area, though, you might have to truck in water for a while. You might get loans from the federal or state government or get grants to drill a new well if your well’s running dry. You might, in some extreme cases, need to set up a mobile desalination plant if it went on for a long time. 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They're drilling two new wells in Cloverdale right now, and that was paid with a 50 percent increase in the water bills of the people who live in Cloverdale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> And so if the drought continues, are we likely to see other communities in the same situation? Perhaps more urban ones even?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ROGERS:\u003c/strong> Well, absolutely. There are 3,000 water districts in California, and there are a lot of small ones. It is expensive to drill new wells, to build reservoirs, that kind of thing. So I would expect, if the drought continues, we're going to see more small areas getting into trouble and needing help. The larger areas, though, the larger districts where you have millions of customers, they're not doing mandatory rationing. They're doing voluntary 10 percent cutbacks. Santa Clara is doing that, Hetch Hetchy’s doing that, we're probably going to see that at EBMUD. They have a lot of water in storage, they have conservation programs, and the drought will have to go on much longer before there’s a severe problem with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SHAFER:\u003c/strong> I know in the past there’s been tension between Northern California and Southern California. L.A. is actually in pretty good shape this time around, aren't they?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ROGERS:\u003c/strong> L.A., after the last drought ended, from 1987 through ‘92, they built a big reservoir called Diamond Valley Reservoir. I think it's 800,000 acre-feet. They’ve done incredible conservation down there with rebates for low-flush toilets. Los Angeles is using the same amount of water right now in terms of gallons as they did 30 years ago even though the population has grown. So, too, is San Jose. San Jose is using the same amount of water, actually all of Santa Clara County, about 350,000 acre-feet now, as they were in 1980. 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We will know in a month or so if we have to ratchet this up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said the Bay Area’s population has grown by 90,000 over the past 10 years, but daily gallons used have dropped by 45 million over the same time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hetch Hetchy water system customers last saw mandatory rationing in the late '80s and early '90s, according to Michael Carlin, SFPUC Deputy General Manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to 10 to 20 percent, and we were actually considering numbers greater than that. In fact, San Francisco was looking at 45 percent mandatory rationing,” he said. “The season’s not over yet, so we’re still evaluating where we stand. It’s not so much that it rains in San Francisco. It’s more important that it snows in the Sierras.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sierra snowpack is currently 12 percent of average. Precipitation in the regional system watersheds is at one-quarter of normal, according to the SFPUC, and that’s the driest in recorded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPUC Assistant General Manager for Water Steve Ritchie said it could all turn around with a few good storms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchie said the Alameda County Water District, which relies on the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/31/state-water-project-deliveries-canceled-because-of-drought\">now officially dry\u003c/a> State Water Project, may need more water from its sister district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already indicated they’re going to need more San Francisco water,even if they get to 20 percent rationing, which is what they’re calling for in their district,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPUC offers free water-saving devices like faucet aerators and efficient shower heads to San Francisco residents. Request the items at 525 Golden Gate Ave., and bring proof of address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post (Tuesday):\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>San Francisco officials are issuing a request for all customers of the Hetch Hetchy water system — that's everyone in the city, plus roughly 1.8 million customers in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda counties — to reduce water use by 10 percent, effective this Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Jue, a spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said the agency is asking only for a 10 percent reduction, rather than a 20 percent voluntary cut requested by Gov. Jerry Brown, because the water district's customers are already \"very conscious about their water use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPUC says San Francisco's water use is about 88 gallons per capita per day — less than half of the statewide average of 197, according to the SFPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has published \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=760\" target=\"_blank\">a list\u003c/a> of now-familiar conservation tips covering everything from taking shorter showers and shutting off the tap while brushing your teeth to planting drought-resistant species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the\u003ca href=\"http://www.ebmud.com/water-and-wastewater/latest-water-supply-update\" target=\"_blank\"> East Bay Municipal Water District\u003c/a>, which serves 1.3 million customers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, says it's considering whether to tap an emergency water source: the Sacramento River. As\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24986817/after-decades-payments-ebmud-may-finally-use-its\" target=\"_blank\"> the Contra Costa Times noted\u003c/a> over the weekend, it would be the first time EBMUD gets to use a source of supply it began paying for even before the devastating drought of 1975-77.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The district signed a federal contract in 1970 for the secondary supply from the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and it has paid the bureau $17 million, required whether or not the water was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for a water delivery pipeline plan were blocked for decades by resistance from Sacramento County and environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A truce was reached in 2001 when the East Bay district and Sacramento County agreed on a $900 million joint project to deliver water to both Sacramento County and the East Bay. EBMUD put up $460 million as its share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the contract, the East Bay temporarily can take up to 100 million gallons a day of Sacramento River water. The district typically uses about 170 million gallons per day of Mokelumne River water.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.acwa.com/content/local-drought-response\" target=\"_blank\">Association of California Water Agencies says\u003c/a> the following cities and districts have taken measures to cut water consumption:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.acwd.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County Water District\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: The district, which serves 336,000 people in Fremont, Newark and Union City, is asking customers to cut consumption by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cloverdale\u003c/strong> (Sonoma County): Has imposed\u003ca href=\"http://www.cloverdale.net/DocumentCenter/View/1536\" target=\"_blank\"> Stage 2 Water Emergency\u003c/a>, requiring 25 percent in water consumption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Healdsburg (Sonoma County):\u003c/strong> City Council has approved \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140121/articles/140129905\" target=\"_blank\">mandatory 20 percent cut \u003c/a>in water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Marin Municipal Water District:\u003c/strong>: Has asked customers for \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinwater.org/controller?action=opennews&id=449\" target=\"_blank\">an immediate 25 percent voluntary reduction\u003c/a> in water use by district customers. As of Jan. 16, the district is pumping water from a reserve reservoir. Depending on the reservoir storage levels on April 1, MMWD may need to adopt mandatory reductions in water use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara Valley Water District: \u003c/strong> District, which serves 1.8 million people, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleywater.org/EkContent.aspx?id=10762\" target=\"_blank\">it's monitoring water resources\u003c/a> with the current conditions meriting a yellow “cautionary” tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Cruz: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofsantacruz.com/index.aspx?page=396\" target=\"_blank\">Stage 1 water restrictions\u003c/a> adopted last year remain in place. Asking residents to turn off automatic irrigation systems and make concerted effort to reduce water use. The San Lorenzo River, the city’s primary source of water supply, is flowing at near-record low levels last seen in 1991 during a six-year drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.scwa.ca.gov/current-water-supply-levels/\" target=\"_blank\">Sonoma County Water Agency\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> won approval from the State Water Resources Control Board to reduce flows from Lake Mendocino into the Russian River in order to conserve the surface water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains reporting from Bay City News. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Precipitation in the regional system watersheds is at one-quarter of normal, according to the SFPUC, and that’s the driest in recorded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SFPUC Assistant General Manager for Water Steve Ritchie said it could all turn around with a few good storms, however.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ritchie said the Alameda County Water District, which relies on the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/31/state-water-project-deliveries-canceled-because-of-drought\">now officially dry\u003c/a> State Water Project, may need more water from its sister district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve already indicated they’re going to need more San Francisco water,even if they get to 20 percent rationing, which is what they’re calling for in their district,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPUC offers free water-saving devices like faucet aerators and efficient shower heads to San Francisco residents. Request the items at 525 Golden Gate Ave., and bring proof of address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post (Tuesday):\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>San Francisco officials are issuing a request for all customers of the Hetch Hetchy water system — that's everyone in the city, plus roughly 1.8 million customers in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Alameda counties — to reduce water use by 10 percent, effective this Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrone Jue, a spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, said the agency is asking only for a 10 percent reduction, rather than a 20 percent voluntary cut requested by Gov. Jerry Brown, because the water district's customers are already \"very conscious about their water use.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPUC says San Francisco's water use is about 88 gallons per capita per day — less than half of the statewide average of 197, according to the SFPUC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has published \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfwater.org/index.aspx?page=760\" target=\"_blank\">a list\u003c/a> of now-familiar conservation tips covering everything from taking shorter showers and shutting off the tap while brushing your teeth to planting drought-resistant species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, the\u003ca href=\"http://www.ebmud.com/water-and-wastewater/latest-water-supply-update\" target=\"_blank\"> East Bay Municipal Water District\u003c/a>, which serves 1.3 million customers in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, says it's considering whether to tap an emergency water source: the Sacramento River. As\u003ca href=\"http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_24986817/after-decades-payments-ebmud-may-finally-use-its\" target=\"_blank\"> the Contra Costa Times noted\u003c/a> over the weekend, it would be the first time EBMUD gets to use a source of supply it began paying for even before the devastating drought of 1975-77.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The district signed a federal contract in 1970 for the secondary supply from the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and it has paid the bureau $17 million, required whether or not the water was taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans for a water delivery pipeline plan were blocked for decades by resistance from Sacramento County and environmentalists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A truce was reached in 2001 when the East Bay district and Sacramento County agreed on a $900 million joint project to deliver water to both Sacramento County and the East Bay. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_125004\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/12038237574_5ef255b3da_o.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-125004\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/01/12038237574_5ef255b3da_o-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Oroville, largest reservoir in the State Water Project, has fallen to just 36 percent of capacity. (Dan Brekke/KQED News)\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Oroville, largest reservoir in the State Water Project, has fallen to just 36 percent of capacity. (Dan Brekke/KQED News)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here's the most dramatic development yet in California's Great Drought of 2013-14: The state Department of Water Resources announced today that for the first time in the 54-year history of the State Water Project, it can't promise to deliver a single drop of water to its city and farm customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.water.ca.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/013114prerss_conference.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">department's announcement\u003c/a> said its allotment of water to agencies that serve 25 million people and irrigate about 750,000 acres of farmland will be cut to 0 percent. The department had already put its customers on notice that this year would be hard: before today, it was only promising a 5 percent allotment of the amount of the 4.2 million acre-feet of water that agencies have contracted for. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some customer agencies still have a small amount of \"carryover\" water from previous years — water that had been allotted to the agencies but which they haven't used — and the state will allow them to tap those supplies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Water Resources decision came at the same time the California \u003ca href=\"http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/waterrights/water_issues/programs/drought/docs/tucp/tucp_press_release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Water Resources Control Board \u003c/a>announced that it's approving emergency measures to preserve the state's shrinking water supplies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board said it has approved a petition from state and federal water managers to reduce the amount of water flowing out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in February. That means less water will need to be released from upstream reservoirs to preserve higher flows mandated by earlier water-quality rulings. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board also announced that starting next week, it will begin ordering some water-rights holders to curtail their diversion of water from streams in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. The orders will target \"junior\" water-rights holders, those whose claim to divert water was established more recently than \"senior\" rights holders. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Here's the AP's latest writethrough on the story: \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juliet Williams\u003cbr>\nAssociated Press\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SACRAMENTO — Amid California's most crippling drought of modern times, state officials on Friday announced they won't allocate water to agencies that serve 25 million people and nearly 1 million acres of farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The announcement marks the first time in the 54-year history of the State Water Project that such an action has been taken. State Department of Water Resources Director Mark Cowin said the action was being taken to conserve the little water than remains behind the dams in the state's vast system of reservoirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Simply put, there's not enough water in the system right now for customers to expect any water this season from the project,\" Cowin said in a statement that was released as numerous state and federal officials announced a variety of actions related to California's drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the 29 agencies serving the towns and farms that draw from the State Water Project have other, local sources of water. But the total cutoff of state water deliveries this spring and summer could have a national impact because it will affect farms in one of the nation's richest agricultural belts.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Simply put, there's not enough water in the system right now for customers to expect any water this season from the project.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Mark Cowin\u003cbr>\nDepartment of Water Resources\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"These actions will protect us all in the long run,\" Cowin said during the news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday's action comes after Gov. Jerry Brown made an official drought declaration, clearing the way for state and federal agencies to coordinate efforts to preserve water and send it to where it is needed most. The governor urged Californians to reduce their water use by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also reflects the severity of the dry conditions in the nation's most populous state. Officials say 2013 was the state's driest calendar year since records started being kept, and this year is heading in the same direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A snow survey on Thursday in the Sierra Nevada, one of the state's key water sources, found the water content in the meager snowpack is just 12 percent of normal. Reservoirs are lower than they were at the same time in 1977, which is one of the two previous driest water years on record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials have said that 17 rural communities are in danger of a severe water shortage within four months. Wells are running dry or reservoirs are nearly empty in some communities. Others have long-running problems that predate the drought.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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