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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108564\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/26/108563/-ojai-water-vote/ojaiwater3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108564\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108564 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/OjaiWater3-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Pat McPherson, an early organizer of the political campaign to buy Golden State Water’s assets in Ojai, estimates that 80 percent of voters in town support the plan. (Chris Richard/KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pat McPherson, an early organizer of the political campaign to buy Golden State Water’s assets in Ojai, estimates that 80 percent of voters in town support the plan. (Chris Richard/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Chris Richard\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walking Ojai’s oak-shaded streets, you pass yard sign after yard sign emblazoned with the slogan: “Stop the Golden State Water Rip-Off!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden State is Ojai’s for-profit water company. Residents say they pay more than twice what people in neighboring communities pay for their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, voters in this rural community 75 miles northwest of Los Angeles will decide whether to buy out Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ojai activists aren’t alone in wanting to ditch private water suppliers. In May, a citizens group on the Monterey Peninsula launched a campaign to purchase the private water system there. And in Claremont (Los Angeles County), activists dissatisfied with Golden State rates are monitoring events in Ojai. Five years ago, residents in rural Felton (Santa Cruz County) approved the bond-funded purchase of their water system from the private California American Water Co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ojai’s Measure V would establish a Mello-Roos community facilities district to raise funds for a takeover by the neighboring Casitas Municipal Water District. Landowners in town would pay off up to $60 million in bonds through special assessments on their property. \u003c!--more-->The election is the latest in a series of small-town revolts against corporate profits in water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of this affluent mountain enclave just east of Ventura remains well-manicured. But Richard Hajas said that in some neighborhoods the financial strain is starting to show as people stop watering their yards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading a visitor on a tour recently, he stopped in front of one sun-blasted yard. There was a neat row of rose bushes along the front garden wall, all dead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s house after house that looks like it’s been abandoned,” he said. “And they’re trying to conserve water in every way they can, and it doesn’t work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ryan Blatz, who serves with Hajas on the pro-Measure V campaign committee Friends of Locally-Owned Water, said the Mello-Roos plan makes good economic sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good tax, because at the end of the day, it’s a tax that saves us money,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blatz says right now, switching to Casitas would save Ojai ratepayers a little more than $3 million annually. But in addition to the savings to be realized by avoiding Golden State’s higher charges, voters should also consider the disparity between Golden State and Casitas average rate increases, Blatz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said over the past 20 years, Golden State’s average annual rate increase has been 8 percent. That’s double the annual average for Casitas in the same period, Blatz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assuming those disparities continue, Blatz estimated that dumping Golden State could save Ojai ratepayers more than $500 million over the 30-year life of the bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ojai resident Twila Carlsen is skeptical. She said too many of the pro-Measure V arguments rely on optimistic projections. Meanwhile, the written plan to pay off the Mello-Roos bond would assesses property by size, Carlsen said. And she fears the assessment on her acre-plus lot could eat into her Social Security. .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Patrick Scanlon, vice president for operations at Golden State, said much of the criticism directed at the company is unfair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our water rates are reflective of what it costs to provide water service,” he said. “Measure V, of course, includes higher property taxes for years without anything that guarantees lower water rates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, water systems have shifted between private and public ownership based on who had the capital to build and maintain pipelines and pumping stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Arnold, an expert in water privatization at the University of Louisville, said the 1980s and ‘90s brought a wave of corporate purchases across the country as cities tried to cut costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Arnold said some companies have had a hard time balancing service requirements and profit. And public services don’t have to answer to investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That gives the public sector operators more opportunity to offer services without increasing the rates, or maybe doing it more gradually,” Arnold said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pat McPherson, an early organizer of the political campaign to buy Golden State Water’s assets in Ojai, estimates that 80 percent of voters in town support the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a report by Food and Water Watch, which supports publicly run water agencies, between 2007 and 2011 the number of Americans served by private water companies fell by 16 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just makes sense for ratepayers to have a local public water institution that is accountable to them,” said Adam Scow, a Food and Water Watch spokesman. “Right now, the companies have a built-in disincentive to encourage conservation, because the more water they sell, the more money they make.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure imposing a new tax needs a two-thirds majority to pass. McPherson hopes his neighbors share the outrage against Golden State that he feels every time he waters his yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They can’t say it’s better managed. They can’t that they’re more responsive to their customers than Casitas will be,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They cannot say that they’re going to alleviate the prices that we’re paying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financial disclosure forms show residents and local businesses are chipping in to the bond campaign. The only cash contributor so far to the opposition is Golden State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Resident Paul Tolejko said it doesn’t require a big-budget advertising campaign to make him question the buyout plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not prepared, and I know a lot of people in my neighborhood are not prepared, to put liens on their property for that length of time without any guarantees,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of the plan to take over the water system say internal polls show they have the votes they need. Still, they’re not taking any chances. They’re planning an intensive get-out-the-vote drive until polls close tonight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/smokecloud082113a/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108350\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/smokecloud082113a.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Updates\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/2013/08/25/2884465/fighting-the-flames-residents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modesto Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.uniondemocrat.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonora Union Democrat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myMotherLode.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>SF not “scrambling” to relocate water supply, says SFPUC\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen some \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/08/26/officials-try-to-protect-giant-sequoias-from-california-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlines\u003c/a> out there about the Rim Fire threatening San Francisco’s water supply as it moves closer to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. AP wrote that water officials “were scrambling to fill area reservoirs with water from Hetch Hetchy before ash taints supplies.” This morning, on KQED’s “Forum,” SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly said the agency was indeed concerned that the ash produced by the fire would eventually work its way into the water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Sheehan, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told KQED’s Dan Brekke this afternoon that “there is some ash but most of the water is clear.” And he also emphatically denied the city was “scrambling” to move water into other reservoirs. Sheehan said that San Francisco had started to ship water from Hetch Hetchy to its Bay Area reservoirs as part of a seasonal move to begin to free up capacity at Hetch Hetchy in anticipation of the upcoming rainy season. He emphasized that those water shipments were standard practice for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan also told Brekke that water officials have seen no indication of a change in quality of Hetch Hetchy water. He said remote monitoring is ongoing all along the system, and so far there’s no sign of any change in the level of particles in the water. He mentioned, as many others from SFPUC have, that water from Hetch Hetchy is drawn through an outlet 270 feet below the lake surface. That’s relevant because it means the water there is more likely to be free of contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit too soon to speculate” on the longer-term impact on water quality or how the city would address it, Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can see the latest data on the \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/selectQuery?station_id=HHY&sensor_num=15&dur_code=E&start_date=&end_date=now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water level at Hetch Hetchy at this California Department of Water Resources link\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The latest from AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Containment of the Rim Fire more than doubled to 15 percent, although it was within a mile of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the source of San Francisco’s famously pure drinking water, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s the water supply of the city of San Francisco, so we’re paying a lot of attention to that,” said Glen Stratton, an operations section chief on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which has grown to 234 square miles in size, also posed a threat to giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park. Crews were using sprinklers and lighting fires to clear brush, though the fire remained several miles from the massive trees, Stratton said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Julie Hutchinson, battalion chief for Cal Fire in Riverside, said on KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201308260930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum”\u003c/a> this morning that the weather is the wild card in fighting the fire. “A wind shift in any direction can cause the fire to make runs in the direction that the wind is pushing it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on on “Forum” this morning, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly said that the fire’s close proximity to Hetch Hetchy has not affected the ability to deliver water and power to meet the city’s needs. But he also said the agency was concerned about the ash produced by the fire that would eventually work its way into the water supply. More from AP on this aspect of the story …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ash from the 234-square-mile fire has been falling on the reservoir, but so far hasn’t sunk far enough into the lake to reach intake pumps, Kelly said. Water quality remained good on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from Hetch Hetchy as well as power for municipal buildings, the international airport and San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kelly said on “Forum” that two of the three area plants used to generate power for the city have been taken offline. The remaining plant is producing less than a third of the power the city typically needs, he said, and power purchased on the open market is being used to make up the gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/rim-fire-destroys-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuolumne Family Camp was destroyed by the fire\u003c/a> (info on refunds at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Parks_Rec_Waterfront/Recreation/Tuolumne_Camp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city of Berkeley’s website\u003c/a>), San Francisco Rec & Park is reporting that the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/camp-mather-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Mather site has sustained only minor damage\u003c/a>. The Strawberry Music festival, however, scheduled for Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 at the camp, has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.strawberrymusic.com/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Yosemite National Park goes, the National Park Service says that as of 9:30 a.m. most of the park was not affected and is “relatively smoke free.” However, there are multiple closures of roads, campsites, trails and other attractions. Look at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/rimfire.htm\">National Park Service’s Rim Fire update page\u003c/a> to find out what those are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the White House announced today that President Obama had called Gov. Jerry Brown for an update on the fires. Brown got his own briefing at a fire base camp today. Said Brown …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov\">@JerryBrownGov\u003c/a> on costs of CA fires: “We’re going to ask the President to prob pitch in some more before the season is over.” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RimFire&src=hash\">#RimFire\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Myers (@johnmyers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/statuses/372064003784060930\">August 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In other fire news, some evacuated residents from communities like Pine Mountain Lake are now returning. Fire officials say crews defended the town with a fire break that slowed the spread of the blaze. Maggie Dowd, a Groveland district ranger for the Stanislaus National Forest, said residents had done a lot to minimize damage from fires by limbing trees and clearing brush around their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Pine Mountain Lake,” Dowd said, “and as a resident we are expected to do defensible space every year. We have a certain period of time to do that, and if we don’t, then we are fined. And I think that over the past couple of years they’ve had a lot of success with residents, and if fire was to come to that larger community it wouldn’t have engulfed it as it has in other populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Monday, 8:10 a.m.: \u003c/strong> Fire officials say the fire has now burned just under 150,000 acres. That moves the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> up to No.13 on Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list\u003c/a> of the biggest fires in state history. The blaze is also now the biggest recorded in the Sierra Nevada since at least the 1930s, the earliest date on the Cal Fire list. The state fire agency warned in an advisory early this morning that conditions today will continue to be tough: “Winds again today will pose a challenge with gusts of 26 mph out of the south, pushing the fire further to the northeast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news this morning: Cal Fire says containment on the fire doubled this morning from 7 percent to 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other developments early Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Berkeley’s much-loved Tuolumne Family Camp became a casualty of the fire. KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/breaking-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp-burns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside reports the fire swept through the 90-year-old camp on Sunday. KGO-TV just posted this video of the burned camp:\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Earlier update: (11:45 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 25):\u003c/strong> Federal and state fire officials say the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> has now burned about 144,000 acres, or 225 square miles. That makes it the 14th biggest fire in California history (or at least since 1932, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Cal Fire’s official list\u003c/a>). But that total also signals a slowdown in the growth of the fire, which trebled in size from Wednesday into Thursday, then more than doubled again from Thursday through Friday evening. More than 2,800 firefighters are battling the blaze, which is 7 percent contained. Crews made enough progress on securing firelines that officials Saturday evening lifted an evacuation advisory for two communities, Pine Mountain Lake and Buck Meadows. About 4,500 residences are still threatened. Officials say 23 structures have burned, including at least four homes. Despite tentative signs of progress in fighting the blaze, officials say the fire is far from tamed. From the latest Associated Press report:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Overnight the fire grew 7 square miles as firefighters gained little ground in slowing the now 207-square-mile blaze, said Daniel Berlant of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, unfortunately, we are expecting strong winds out of the south,” he said. “It’s going to allow the fire to advance to the northeast.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nFire officials are using bulldozers to clear contingency lines on the Rim Fire’s north side to protect the towns of Tuolumne City, Ponderosa Hills and Twain Hart. The lines are being cut a mile ahead of the fire in locations where fire officials hope they will help protect the communities should the fire jump containment lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high winds and movement of the fire from bone-dry brush on the ground to 100-foot oak and pine treetops have created dire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crown fire is much more difficult to fight,” Berlant told The Associated Press Sunday. “Our firefighters are on the ground having to spray up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco officials said Sunday the fire still has had no impact on the quality of water from the city’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>They added that utilities crews are returning today to the Kirkwood Powerhouse, shut down last week when the fire swept through the canyons downstream from the reservoir, to start repairs. A second generating facility, the Holm Powerhouse, was also shut down. Crews haven’t been able to make it back to that facility to assess any fire damage that occurred there. The generating stations normally supply power to the Municipal Railway transit system and a wide array of other municipal facilities, including San Francisco’s City Hall and San Francisco General Hospital. The city says it has spent $600,000 so far to buy power to replace the normal supply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tuolumne County education officials have \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/2224644/Silva-All-Tuolumne-County-Schools-Closed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled school\u003c/a> for tomorrow and Tuesday. That’s partly out of concern for the difficulty of traveling through some areas of the county and party because of smoky, unhealthy air in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials in Yosemite National Park are taking special steps to protect the two groves of giant sequoias that the fire could threaten. Crews have cleared brush from around trees and installed sprinklers in the Tuolumne and Merced groves just in case. “All of the plants and trees in Yosemite are important, but the giant sequoias are incredibly important both for what they are and as symbols of the National Park System,” park spokesman Scott Gediman told the Associated Press.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More on the fire:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC’s “Fire Tracker” graphic summary of the blaze:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/rim-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Saturday, Aug. 24): \u003c/strong>Acting on a request from San Francisco officials, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has issued an emergency declaration\u003c/a> to help the city cope with the Rim Fire’s potential impacts to the Hetch Hetchy water and hydropower system. City utility officials shut down two of the system’s three powerhouses and nearby electrical transmission lines last Saturday as the fire began to sweep through steep, heavily wooded terrain west of Yosemite National Park. The power generated in the system is used to run the Municipal Railway transit system, City Hall, police and fire stations, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco International Airport and other municipal facilities. For now the city is replacing that electricity by using power banked with PG&E or by buying it from other suppliers on the open market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, deputy general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told us this afternoon that there’s no suggestion in the emergency declaration — or in the potential damage to the city’s electricity-generating facilities near Yosemite — that power will be interrupted to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other developments Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The joint federal/state fire command says the fire has burned 125,620 acres—about 200 square miles. That’s more than four times the area of San Francisco or equivalent to the entire area of San Jose and Santa Clara.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fire officials reported the fire is 5 percent contained. They continue to rate the blaze’s growth potential as “extreme” due to inaccessible terrain and very dry conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials say 23 structures, including four homes, have burned. AP reports 5,500 homes are threatened, and officials have issued evacuation advisories for several towns and hamlets west of Yosemite. Resorts and summer camps in the area have also been shut down.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Brown’s Friday night declaration, which cited the possibility of a temporary interruption to power and water deliveries from the Hetch Hetchy system, frees state resources to help the city deal with any damage to its infrastructure. The state declaration also makes it possible for the city to ask for federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, the SFPUC’s deputy general manager, said that utility crews are in the fire zone today to try to assess the condition of power facilities shut down last weekend after the fire started. Carlin said a full assessment of 12.5 miles of transmission lines and two powerhouses probably won’t be finished until Monday or Tuesday. Crews are visiting the Kirkwood powerhouse, 12 miles below O’Shaughnessy Dam, to see how much damage it sustained as the fire burned in the area. Inspection of power lines and the Holm Powerhouse, downstream of the system’s Cherry Lake reservoir, is on hold today. Carlin said crews are checking the condition of service roads and other forest routes and waiting for an all-clear from fire officials to access the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the city’s Hetch Hetchy water supply goes, Carlin said there’s no sign yet the fire has affected water from the system’s main reservoir behind O’Shaugnessy Dam. He said the reservoir has been off-limits to everyone but fire personnel, “So we’ve had no eyes on the water there.” But he said remote monitoring of the water supply at the Kirkwood Powerhouse and at other downstream locations has shown no change in the water’s clarity. City officials have noted that Hetch Hetchy water is transported toward the Bay Area in underground pipelines and should be safe from ash and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlin said if Hetch Hetchy water quality is seriously degraded, the city would tap its water resources closer to the Bay Area—San Antonio and Calaveras reservoirs in Alameda County and the Crystal Springs reservoirs in San Mateo County. Customers would get at least 36 hours’ notice if that happens, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interruption of the flow of Hetch Hetchy water would reach far beyond San Francisco. The system serves not only the city’s businesses and 800,000 residents, but also 1.7 million people on the Peninsula and Alameda County.\u003c/p>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108350\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/smokecloud082113a/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108350\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108350\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/smokecloud082113a.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Smoke from the Rim Fire rises above a ridge in Yosemite National Park on Wednesday, Aug. 21. The view is across an area of the park that burned several years ago. (Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Updates\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/2013/08/25/2884465/fighting-the-flames-residents.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Modesto Bee\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.uniondemocrat.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sonora Union Democrat\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myMotherLode.com\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://cdfdata.fire.ca.gov/incidents/incidents_current\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Fire\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 3:10 p.m.\u003c/strong> \u003cem>SF not “scrambling” to relocate water supply, says SFPUC\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve seen some \u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/weather/2013/08/26/officials-try-to-protect-giant-sequoias-from-california-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">headlines\u003c/a> out there about the Rim Fire threatening San Francisco’s water supply as it moves closer to the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. AP wrote that water officials “were scrambling to fill area reservoirs with water from Hetch Hetchy before ash taints supplies.” This morning, on KQED’s “Forum,” SFPUC General Manager Harlan Kelly said the agency was indeed concerned that the ash produced by the fire would eventually work its way into the water supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charles Sheehan, spokesman for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told KQED’s Dan Brekke this afternoon that “there is some ash but most of the water is clear.” And he also emphatically denied the city was “scrambling” to move water into other reservoirs. Sheehan said that San Francisco had started to ship water from Hetch Hetchy to its Bay Area reservoirs as part of a seasonal move to begin to free up capacity at Hetch Hetchy in anticipation of the upcoming rainy season. He emphasized that those water shipments were standard practice for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheehan also told Brekke that water officials have seen no indication of a change in quality of Hetch Hetchy water. He said remote monitoring is ongoing all along the system, and so far there’s no sign of any change in the level of particles in the water. He mentioned, as many others from SFPUC have, that water from Hetch Hetchy is drawn through an outlet 270 feet below the lake surface. That’s relevant because it means the water there is more likely to be free of contaminants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a bit too soon to speculate” on the longer-term impact on water quality or how the city would address it, Sheehan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can see the latest data on the \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/selectQuery?station_id=HHY&sensor_num=15&dur_code=E&start_date=&end_date=now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">water level at Hetch Hetchy at this California Department of Water Resources link\u003c/a>.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: 1 p.m. \u003c/strong>The latest from AP:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Containment of the Rim Fire more than doubled to 15 percent, although it was within a mile of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, the source of San Francisco’s famously pure drinking water, officials said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s the water supply of the city of San Francisco, so we’re paying a lot of attention to that,” said Glen Stratton, an operations section chief on the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire, which has grown to 234 square miles in size, also posed a threat to giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park. Crews were using sprinklers and lighting fires to clear brush, though the fire remained several miles from the massive trees, Stratton said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Julie Hutchinson, battalion chief for Cal Fire in Riverside, said on KQED’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201308260930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum”\u003c/a> this morning that the weather is the wild card in fighting the fire. “A wind shift in any direction can cause the fire to make runs in the direction that the wind is pushing it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also on on “Forum” this morning, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission General Manager Harlan Kelly said that the fire’s close proximity to Hetch Hetchy has not affected the ability to deliver water and power to meet the city’s needs. But he also said the agency was concerned about the ash produced by the fire that would eventually work its way into the water supply. More from AP on this aspect of the story …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ash from the 234-square-mile fire has been falling on the reservoir, but so far hasn’t sunk far enough into the lake to reach intake pumps, Kelly said. Water quality remained good on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from Hetch Hetchy as well as power for municipal buildings, the international airport and San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Kelly said on “Forum” that two of the three area plants used to generate power for the city have been taken offline. The remaining plant is producing less than a third of the power the city typically needs, he said, and power purchased on the open market is being used to make up the gap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/rim-fire-destroys-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuolumne Family Camp was destroyed by the fire\u003c/a> (info on refunds at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/Parks_Rec_Waterfront/Recreation/Tuolumne_Camp.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">city of Berkeley’s website\u003c/a>), San Francisco Rec & Park is reporting that the city’s \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/camp-mather-update/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp Mather site has sustained only minor damage\u003c/a>. The Strawberry Music festival, however, scheduled for Aug. 29 to Sept. 2 at the camp, has been \u003ca href=\"http://www.strawberrymusic.com/Home.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as Yosemite National Park goes, the National Park Service says that as of 9:30 a.m. most of the park was not affected and is “relatively smoke free.” However, there are multiple closures of roads, campsites, trails and other attractions. Look at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/rimfire.htm\">National Park Service’s Rim Fire update page\u003c/a> to find out what those are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the White House announced today that President Obama had called Gov. Jerry Brown for an update on the fires. Brown got his own briefing at a fire base camp today. Said Brown …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>.\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/JerryBrownGov\">@JerryBrownGov\u003c/a> on costs of CA fires: “We’re going to ask the President to prob pitch in some more before the season is over.” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RimFire&src=hash\">#RimFire\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— John Myers (@johnmyers) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/johnmyers/statuses/372064003784060930\">August 26, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In other fire news, some evacuated residents from communities like Pine Mountain Lake are now returning. Fire officials say crews defended the town with a fire break that slowed the spread of the blaze. Maggie Dowd, a Groveland district ranger for the Stanislaus National Forest, said residents had done a lot to minimize damage from fires by limbing trees and clearing brush around their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Pine Mountain Lake,” Dowd said, “and as a resident we are expected to do defensible space every year. We have a certain period of time to do that, and if we don’t, then we are fined. And I think that over the past couple of years they’ve had a lot of success with residents, and if fire was to come to that larger community it wouldn’t have engulfed it as it has in other populations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Monday, 8:10 a.m.: \u003c/strong> Fire officials say the fire has now burned just under 150,000 acres. That moves the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> up to No.13 on Cal Fire’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list\u003c/a> of the biggest fires in state history. The blaze is also now the biggest recorded in the Sierra Nevada since at least the 1930s, the earliest date on the Cal Fire list. The state fire agency warned in an advisory early this morning that conditions today will continue to be tough: “Winds again today will pose a challenge with gusts of 26 mph out of the south, pushing the fire further to the northeast.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news this morning: Cal Fire says containment on the fire doubled this morning from 7 percent to 15 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other developments early Monday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Berkeley’s much-loved Tuolumne Family Camp became a casualty of the fire. KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/25/breaking-berkeley-tuolumne-family-camp-burns/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Berkeleyside reports the fire swept through the 90-year-old camp on Sunday. KGO-TV just posted this video of the burned camp:\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Earlier update: (11:45 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 25):\u003c/strong> Federal and state fire officials say the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rim Fire\u003c/a> has now burned about 144,000 acres, or 225 square miles. That makes it the 14th biggest fire in California history (or at least since 1932, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/communications/downloads/fact_sheets/20LACRES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Cal Fire’s official list\u003c/a>). But that total also signals a slowdown in the growth of the fire, which trebled in size from Wednesday into Thursday, then more than doubled again from Thursday through Friday evening. More than 2,800 firefighters are battling the blaze, which is 7 percent contained. Crews made enough progress on securing firelines that officials Saturday evening lifted an evacuation advisory for two communities, Pine Mountain Lake and Buck Meadows. About 4,500 residences are still threatened. Officials say 23 structures have burned, including at least four homes. Despite tentative signs of progress in fighting the blaze, officials say the fire is far from tamed. From the latest Associated Press report:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Overnight the fire grew 7 square miles as firefighters gained little ground in slowing the now 207-square-mile blaze, said Daniel Berlant of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today, unfortunately, we are expecting strong winds out of the south,” he said. “It’s going to allow the fire to advance to the northeast.”\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003cbr>\nFire officials are using bulldozers to clear contingency lines on the Rim Fire’s north side to protect the towns of Tuolumne City, Ponderosa Hills and Twain Hart. The lines are being cut a mile ahead of the fire in locations where fire officials hope they will help protect the communities should the fire jump containment lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high winds and movement of the fire from bone-dry brush on the ground to 100-foot oak and pine treetops have created dire conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crown fire is much more difficult to fight,” Berlant told The Associated Press Sunday. “Our firefighters are on the ground having to spray up.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Other details:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>San Francisco officials said Sunday the fire still has had no impact on the quality of water from the city’s Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>They added that utilities crews are returning today to the Kirkwood Powerhouse, shut down last week when the fire swept through the canyons downstream from the reservoir, to start repairs. A second generating facility, the Holm Powerhouse, was also shut down. Crews haven’t been able to make it back to that facility to assess any fire damage that occurred there. The generating stations normally supply power to the Municipal Railway transit system and a wide array of other municipal facilities, including San Francisco’s City Hall and San Francisco General Hospital. The city says it has spent $600,000 so far to buy power to replace the normal supply.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Tuolumne County education officials have \u003ca href=\"http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/2224644/Silva-All-Tuolumne-County-Schools-Closed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">canceled school\u003c/a> for tomorrow and Tuesday. That’s partly out of concern for the difficulty of traveling through some areas of the county and party because of smoky, unhealthy air in the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials in Yosemite National Park are taking special steps to protect the two groves of giant sequoias that the fire could threaten. Crews have cleared brush from around trees and installed sprinklers in the Tuolumne and Merced groves just in case. “All of the plants and trees in Yosemite are important, but the giant sequoias are incredibly important both for what they are and as symbols of the National Park System,” park spokesman Scott Gediman told the Associated Press.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>More on the fire:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KPCC’s “Fire Tracker” graphic summary of the blaze:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/rim-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post (Saturday, Aug. 24): \u003c/strong>Acting on a request from San Francisco officials, Gov. Jerry Brown \u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=18169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has issued an emergency declaration\u003c/a> to help the city cope with the Rim Fire’s potential impacts to the Hetch Hetchy water and hydropower system. City utility officials shut down two of the system’s three powerhouses and nearby electrical transmission lines last Saturday as the fire began to sweep through steep, heavily wooded terrain west of Yosemite National Park. The power generated in the system is used to run the Municipal Railway transit system, City Hall, police and fire stations, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco International Airport and other municipal facilities. For now the city is replacing that electricity by using power banked with PG&E or by buying it from other suppliers on the open market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, deputy general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, told us this afternoon that there’s no suggestion in the emergency declaration — or in the potential damage to the city’s electricity-generating facilities near Yosemite — that power will be interrupted to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In other developments Saturday: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The joint federal/state fire command says the fire has burned 125,620 acres—about 200 square miles. That’s more than four times the area of San Francisco or equivalent to the entire area of San Jose and Santa Clara.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Fire officials reported the fire is 5 percent contained. They continue to rate the blaze’s growth potential as “extreme” due to inaccessible terrain and very dry conditions.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Officials say 23 structures, including four homes, have burned. AP reports 5,500 homes are threatened, and officials have issued evacuation advisories for several towns and hamlets west of Yosemite. Resorts and summer camps in the area have also been shut down.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Brown’s Friday night declaration, which cited the possibility of a temporary interruption to power and water deliveries from the Hetch Hetchy system, frees state resources to help the city deal with any damage to its infrastructure. The state declaration also makes it possible for the city to ask for federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Carlin, the SFPUC’s deputy general manager, said that utility crews are in the fire zone today to try to assess the condition of power facilities shut down last weekend after the fire started. Carlin said a full assessment of 12.5 miles of transmission lines and two powerhouses probably won’t be finished until Monday or Tuesday. Crews are visiting the Kirkwood powerhouse, 12 miles below O’Shaughnessy Dam, to see how much damage it sustained as the fire burned in the area. Inspection of power lines and the Holm Powerhouse, downstream of the system’s Cherry Lake reservoir, is on hold today. Carlin said crews are checking the condition of service roads and other forest routes and waiting for an all-clear from fire officials to access the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As far as the city’s Hetch Hetchy water supply goes, Carlin said there’s no sign yet the fire has affected water from the system’s main reservoir behind O’Shaugnessy Dam. He said the reservoir has been off-limits to everyone but fire personnel, “So we’ve had no eyes on the water there.” But he said remote monitoring of the water supply at the Kirkwood Powerhouse and at other downstream locations has shown no change in the water’s clarity. City officials have noted that Hetch Hetchy water is transported toward the Bay Area in underground pipelines and should be safe from ash and debris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carlin said if Hetch Hetchy water quality is seriously degraded, the city would tap its water resources closer to the Bay Area—San Antonio and Calaveras reservoirs in Alameda County and the Crystal Springs reservoirs in San Mateo County. Customers would get at least 36 hours’ notice if that happens, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An interruption of the flow of Hetch Hetchy water would reach far beyond San Francisco. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_108101\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/23/108082/rs6254_177354257-scr/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-108101\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-108101\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/08/RS6254_177354257-scr-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Fire crews near Groveland, a community west of Yosemite National Park threatened by the Rim Fire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) \" width=\"300\" height=\"203\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fire crews near Groveland, a community west of Yosemite National Park threatened by the Rim Fire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latest post:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/24/rim-fire-update/\" target=\"_blank\">Blaze Slows But Remains Extremely Dangerous\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Details, as of 10:30 p.m. PDT Friday:\u003c/strong> The fire that's been burning all week just west of Yosemite took another giant leap in size Friday, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Forest Service\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/CaliforniaStatewideFireSummary2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CalFire\u003c/a> reporting the blaze, named the Rim Fire, has now covered more than 125,000 acres (more below on how big that really is). The conflagration is just 5 percent contained, and a force of nearly 2,700 firefighters, backed by big aerial tankers, is struggling to stop the blaze as gusty winds drive it through rugged, hard-to-reach terrain. Fire officials say the blaze threatens 5,500 homes. So far, four homes have burned along with about a dozen other structures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Early Friday, the fire crossed the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, burning in a remote area near Lake Eleanor. The blaze remains far from iconic park destinations like Yosemite Valley.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Later in the day, officials said the fire had spread west toward the Highway 108, the route between the town of Sonora and Sonora Pass, and that aerial tankers were flying missions to try to slow the spread of the blaze in that direction. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So far, the gated resort town of Pine Mountain Lake (population 2,800) and rural settlement of Buck Meadows (50 people) are the only communities facing a mandatory evacuation. But authorities issued evacuation advisories for several other towns, including Tuolumne City (population 1,800), Groveland (600) and Ponderosa Hills.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco, which has major water and hydropower resources in the fire area. The declaration makes state funds available to the city to respond to the threat to the facilities and could free federal funding to help offset the city's costs in replacing electrical power it's been unable to generate during the fire. Earlier, Brown declared a state of emergency for Tuolumne County to help local officials with their emergency response. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Highway 120 west of Yosemite, the main route to the park from the Bay Area, remains closed. Travelers can still get into the park on Highway 140 (via Merced), Highway 41 (via Oakhurst) and on Highway 120 \u003cem>\u003cstrong>east\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> of the park (via Lee Vining and Tioga Pass).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco has shut down two powerhouses in the fire zone and is waiting to get the all-clear from fire officials before sending crews in to inspect them. The facilities are part of the city's Hetch Hetchy water and power system and can generate 160 megawatts of power. The city uses that electricity to run Muni, light City Hall, and for the rest of its municipal needs. For the time being, it's replacing the power with energy \"banked\" with PG&E and by buying electricity from other providers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hotels and resorts in the area have been shut down, along with several municipal high-country vacation retreats such as San Francisco's Camp Mather. We haven't seen any hard numbers on how many people have actually been evacuated from the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/23/cal-alumni-bear-of-the-lair-camp-evacuates-due-to-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside reports\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley has closed its popular camp, Lair of the Bear. The city of Berkeley's Tuolumne Family Camp, San Jose's city camp and the Jewish \u003ca href=\"http://www.tawonga.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Tawonga\u003c/a> have also been evacuated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Air quality regulators in Reno have issued \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/?action=airnow.local_city&zipcode=89512\" target=\"_blank\">an alert\u003c/a> for unhealthy air for the next several days as \u003ca href=\"http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">smoke\u003c/a> from the Rim Fire and a second blaze farther north in the Sierra, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/#\" target=\"_blank\">American Fire\u003c/a>, is carried to the northeast.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Now, how big is 125,000 acres? Some news organizations, like NPR, have taken to reporting the size of fires in square miles instead of acres, apparently in the belief that listeners and readers can better grasp the magnitude of the events that way. So, 105,000 acres is 196 square miles. Here's still another way to think of the size of this fire, which has grown eightfold in area since early Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hundred ninety-six square miles is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About four times the area of San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly equivalent to the combined area of Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland—in other words, nearly everything between the bay shore and crest of the East Bay hills from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge down to the Oakland Airport.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All of San Jose's sprawling 180 square miles, with the city of Santa Clara thrown in for good measure.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Here's KPCC's graphic summary of the Rim Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://projects.scpr.org/firetracker/rim-fire/embed\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's the latest (9:45 p.m. Friday) on the fire from the Associated Press:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FRESNO — A giant wildfire raging out of control grew to nearly 200 square miles and spread into Yosemite National Park on Friday, as California Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for the city of San Francisco 150 miles away because of the threat to the city's utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire hit the park at the height of summer season, as officials geared up for a busy Labor Day weekend. It has closed some backcountry hiking but was not threatening the Yosemite Valley region, one of California's most popular tourist destinations that features such iconic sights as the Half Dome and El Capitan rock formations and Bridalveil and Yosemite falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze did, however, pose a threat to the lines and stations that pipe power to the city of San Francisco, so Brown, who had declared an emergency for the fire area earlier in the week, made the unusual move of extending the emergency declaration to the city across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from the Yosemite-area Hetch Hetchy reservoir that is about 4 miles from the fire, though that had yet to be affected. But it was forced to shut down two of its three hydroelectric power stations in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has so far been able to buy power on the open market and use existing supplies, but further disruptions or damage could have an effect, according to city power officials and the governor's statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declaration frees funding and resources to help the city and makes it eligible for more federal funds to help with power shortages and outages or water problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeklong blaze on the timbered slopes of the Western Sierra Nevada has spread to 196 square miles and was only 5 percent contained. It continued to grow in several directions, although \"most of the fire activity is pushing to the east right into Yosemite,\" said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke blowing across the Sierra into the state of Nevada forced officials in several counties to cancel outdoor school activities and issue health advisories, especially for people with respiratory problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities urged more evacuations in nearby communities where thousands have already been forced out by flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was threatening about 5,500 residences, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The blaze has destroyed four homes and 12 outbuildings in several different areas. More than 2,000 firefighters were on the lines and one sustained a heat-related injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the park remained open, the blaze closed a 4-mile stretch of State Route 120, one of three entrances into Yosemite on the west side. Two other western routes and an eastern route were open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the park, the blaze was burning on about 17 square miles in a remote area around Lake Eleanor, Yosemite spokeswoman Kari Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backcountry permits are required to hike in that area, Cobb said. The park was no longer issuing those and had contacted every person who had received a permit to go there. Two roads into that area were closed and occupants of a campground near the Route 120 west entrance were relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have anybody we know of in that area based on the permits we have out now,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was more than 20 miles from Yosemite Valley and skies there were \"crystal clear,\" Cobb said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Right now there are no closures, and no visitor services are being affected in the park,\" he said. \"We just have to take one day at a time depending on fire activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, officials issued voluntary evacuation advisories for two new towns — Tuolumne City, population 1,800, and Ponderosa Hills, a community of several hundred — which are about five miles from the fire line, Forest Service spokesman Jerry Snyder said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mandatory evacuation order remained in effect for part of Pine Mountain Lake, a summer gated community a few miles from the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It feels a little bit like a war zone, with helicopters flying overhead, bombers dropping retardant and 10 engine companies stationed on our street,\" said Ken Codeglia, a retired Pine Mountain Lake resident who decided to stay to protect his house with his own hoses and fire retardant system. \"But if the fire gets very hot and firefighters evacuate, I will run with them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials previously advised voluntary evacuations of more than a thousand other homes, several organized camps and at least two campgrounds in the area outside the park's boundary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More homes, businesses and hotels are threatened in nearby Groveland, a community of 600 about 5 miles from the fire and 25 miles from the entrance of Yosemite.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Usually filled with tourists, the streets are now swarming with firefighters, evacuees, and news crews, said Doug Edwards, owner of Hotel Charlotte on Main Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We usually book out six months solid with no vacancies and turn away 30-40 people a night. That's all changed,\" Edwards said. \"All we're getting for the next three weeks is cancellations. It's a huge impact on the community in terms of revenue dollars.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Park fire crews are working to clear brush and other fire fuels from the Merced and Tuolumne Groves of Giant Sequoias as a precaution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire is raging in the same region where a 1987 fire killed a firefighter, burned hundreds of thousands of acres, and forced several thousand people out of their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>___\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Associated Press writers Jason Dearen, Lisa Leff and Andrew Dalton in San Francisco also contributed to this report.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latest post:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/24/rim-fire-update/\" target=\"_blank\">Blaze Slows But Remains Extremely Dangerous\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Details, as of 10:30 p.m. PDT Friday:\u003c/strong> The fire that's been burning all week just west of Yosemite took another giant leap in size Friday, with \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3660/#\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Forest Service\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.fire.ca.gov/downloads/incidents/CaliforniaStatewideFireSummary2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CalFire\u003c/a> reporting the blaze, named the Rim Fire, has now covered more than 125,000 acres (more below on how big that really is). The conflagration is just 5 percent contained, and a force of nearly 2,700 firefighters, backed by big aerial tankers, is struggling to stop the blaze as gusty winds drive it through rugged, hard-to-reach terrain. Fire officials say the blaze threatens 5,500 homes. So far, four homes have burned along with about a dozen other structures. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Early Friday, the fire crossed the western boundary of Yosemite National Park, burning in a remote area near Lake Eleanor. The blaze remains far from iconic park destinations like Yosemite Valley.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Later in the day, officials said the fire had spread west toward the Highway 108, the route between the town of Sonora and Sonora Pass, and that aerial tankers were flying missions to try to slow the spread of the blaze in that direction. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>So far, the gated resort town of Pine Mountain Lake (population 2,800) and rural settlement of Buck Meadows (50 people) are the only communities facing a mandatory evacuation. But authorities issued evacuation advisories for several other towns, including Tuolumne City (population 1,800), Groveland (600) and Ponderosa Hills.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for San Francisco, which has major water and hydropower resources in the fire area. The declaration makes state funds available to the city to respond to the threat to the facilities and could free federal funding to help offset the city's costs in replacing electrical power it's been unable to generate during the fire. Earlier, Brown declared a state of emergency for Tuolumne County to help local officials with their emergency response. \u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Highway 120 west of Yosemite, the main route to the park from the Bay Area, remains closed. Travelers can still get into the park on Highway 140 (via Merced), Highway 41 (via Oakhurst) and on Highway 120 \u003cem>\u003cstrong>east\u003c/strong>\u003c/em> of the park (via Lee Vining and Tioga Pass).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco has shut down two powerhouses in the fire zone and is waiting to get the all-clear from fire officials before sending crews in to inspect them. The facilities are part of the city's Hetch Hetchy water and power system and can generate 160 megawatts of power. The city uses that electricity to run Muni, light City Hall, and for the rest of its municipal needs. For the time being, it's replacing the power with energy \"banked\" with PG&E and by buying electricity from other providers.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hotels and resorts in the area have been shut down, along with several municipal high-country vacation retreats such as San Francisco's Camp Mather. We haven't seen any hard numbers on how many people have actually been evacuated from the area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KQED News Associate \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/08/23/cal-alumni-bear-of-the-lair-camp-evacuates-due-to-wildfire/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside reports\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley has closed its popular camp, Lair of the Bear. The city of Berkeley's Tuolumne Family Camp, San Jose's city camp and the Jewish \u003ca href=\"http://www.tawonga.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Camp Tawonga\u003c/a> have also been evacuated.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Air quality regulators in Reno have issued \u003ca href=\"http://airnow.gov/?action=airnow.local_city&zipcode=89512\" target=\"_blank\">an alert\u003c/a> for unhealthy air for the next several days as \u003ca href=\"http://www.firedetect.noaa.gov/viewer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">smoke\u003c/a> from the Rim Fire and a second blaze farther north in the Sierra, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.inciweb.org/incident/3624/#\" target=\"_blank\">American Fire\u003c/a>, is carried to the northeast.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Now, how big is 125,000 acres? Some news organizations, like NPR, have taken to reporting the size of fires in square miles instead of acres, apparently in the belief that listeners and readers can better grasp the magnitude of the events that way. So, 105,000 acres is 196 square miles. Here's still another way to think of the size of this fire, which has grown eightfold in area since early Wednesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One hundred ninety-six square miles is:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>About four times the area of San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Roughly equivalent to the combined area of Richmond, El Cerrito, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Oakland—in other words, nearly everything between the bay shore and crest of the East Bay hills from the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge down to the Oakland Airport.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>All of San Jose's sprawling 180 square miles, with the city of Santa Clara thrown in for good measure.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Here's KPCC's graphic summary of the Rim Fire:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It has closed some backcountry hiking but was not threatening the Yosemite Valley region, one of California's most popular tourist destinations that features such iconic sights as the Half Dome and El Capitan rock formations and Bridalveil and Yosemite falls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The blaze did, however, pose a threat to the lines and stations that pipe power to the city of San Francisco, so Brown, who had declared an emergency for the fire area earlier in the week, made the unusual move of extending the emergency declaration to the city across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco gets 85 percent of its water from the Yosemite-area Hetch Hetchy reservoir that is about 4 miles from the fire, though that had yet to be affected. But it was forced to shut down two of its three hydroelectric power stations in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has so far been able to buy power on the open market and use existing supplies, but further disruptions or damage could have an effect, according to city power officials and the governor's statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declaration frees funding and resources to help the city and makes it eligible for more federal funds to help with power shortages and outages or water problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weeklong blaze on the timbered slopes of the Western Sierra Nevada has spread to 196 square miles and was only 5 percent contained. It continued to grow in several directions, although \"most of the fire activity is pushing to the east right into Yosemite,\" said Daniel Berlant, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smoke blowing across the Sierra into the state of Nevada forced officials in several counties to cancel outdoor school activities and issue health advisories, especially for people with respiratory problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities urged more evacuations in nearby communities where thousands have already been forced out by flames.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire was threatening about 5,500 residences, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The blaze has destroyed four homes and 12 outbuildings in several different areas. 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She’s the prime sponsor of SB 4, a bill that would tighten how California regulates hydraulic fracturing and how much public information drillers would have to provide about their activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the bill moves toward an Assembly vote, Pavley and the Brown administration appear to be moving toward a consensus on a key provision that the drilling industry opposes: \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/california_fracking_bill\">applying aspects of the new regulations to a technique called “acidizing,”\u003c/a> in addition to fracking.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where there are similarities we ought to make sure the (state’s new) regulations cover it,” said Jason Marshall, the chief deputy director of \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/california-prepares-first-fracking-regulations-joining-nationwide-debate/\">the state agency that regulates oil and gas drilling\u003c/a>. 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In May, \u003ca href=\"http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/28/us-california-oil-insight-idUSBRE94R0CO20130528\">several energy companies told Reuters that acidizing is a key part of drilling\u003c/a> in the Monterey Shale, which is much more fractured and difficult to access than the other major shale formations that are fueling the country’s recent domestic oil and gas boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the energy industry is pushing back against expanding the scope of California’s impending fracking regulations. “We recognize that our members will be operating in a much more tightly regulated environment in regards to hydraulic fracturing,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a> spokesman Tupper Hull. “They’re prepared to do that,” he said, but warned “to pull in a bunch of other issues that really are unrelated from a technical point of view makes the likelihood of achieving those balanced, comprehensive regulations much more slimmer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In other words, major oil companies and their deep pockets would stop negotiating and start fighting against the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“You Don’t Get To Break Your Well”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea that fracking and acidizing are completely unregulated in California is popular but false. The Department of Conservation’s oil and gas division treats them as one aspect of the broader drilling process, which it permits and regulates. The state enforces standards regulating the thickness and quality of the pipes and cement that keep oil, gas, fracking fluid and any other substance inside a well, and out of the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same rules apply to fracking and acidizing as any other aspect of the drilling process, said Marshall. “You don’t get to break your well, and if you break your well you have to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with California’s Monterey Shale slated as the next stop in the country's recent shale drilling boom, the Brown administration has begun the process of writing new rules specifically addressing fracking. Environmental groups have long been skeptical of the Department of Conservation’s oil and gas division. “This is an agency that has had a cozy relationship with the oil industry for nearly 100 years,” said Bill Allayaud of the Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That skepticism is the motivation behind SB 4. Pavley said she was worried that without legislative guidance, the division’s regulations would be weak and ineffective. The bill would tell the division what parts of fracking to regulate. “We have continued to push them,” Pavley said. “The regulations are getting better, but they’re still too weak.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Road Ahead For SB 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed the Senate earlier this summer, and will soon go before the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Negotiations continue. Pavley and environmental groups want to require a separate permit for fracking, acidizing and other well completion techniques. That’s in addition to the paperwork drillers already file before constructing a well. The Brown administration’s proposed amendments remove this language and replace it with a requirement for drillers to simply “provide notice” before beginning fracking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pavley’s bill would make California the strictest state in the country when it comes to forcing drillers to justify trade secret claims that keep specific fracking chemicals from being posted on public websites. SB 4 would require drillers to explain who else knows about the chemical in question, how much that proprietary information is worth to them and how easily it could be duplicated by other companies. The governor’s proposed amendments strip away that language. Instead, drillers would simply designate certain chemicals as trade secrets. 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This is something the energy industry accepts and, according to spokesman Hull, embraces. “We understand there’s going to be prior permitting, there’s going to be full disclosure of the fluids…there’s going to be enhanced well monitoring, well construction. …All of those issues have been on the table and expected in the final regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But energy companies’ opposition to new regulations affecting techniques beyond hydraulic fracturing could kill SB 4, warned Allayaud of the Environmental Working Group. “Any time the most powerful corporations in the world oppose a bill, there’s going to be doubt.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Department of Conservation’s oil and gas division treats them as one aspect of the broader drilling process, which it permits and regulates. The state enforces standards regulating the thickness and quality of the pipes and cement that keep oil, gas, fracking fluid and any other substance inside a well, and out of the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same rules apply to fracking and acidizing as any other aspect of the drilling process, said Marshall. “You don’t get to break your well, and if you break your well you have to fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, with California’s Monterey Shale slated as the next stop in the country's recent shale drilling boom, the Brown administration has begun the process of writing new rules specifically addressing fracking. 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Now environmental consciousness is part of the equation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">new ranking from Sierra magazine\u003c/a> lists some of the greenest of them all, and you might not be surprised to see several California schools ranked highly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Irvine (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-university-california-irvine-3.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">3\u003c/a>), UC Davis (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-university-california-davis-4.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">4\u003c/a>), Stanford (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-stanford-university-7.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">7\u003c/a>) and UC Santa Barbara (\u003ca href=\"http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201309/coolschools/slideshow/top-ten-cool-schools-university-california-santa-barbara-10.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">10\u003c/a>) are all top-10 colleges on the magazine’s environmental list, which takes into account factors like where a school gets its power, how environmentalism is incorporated into the curriculum and what kind of food is served in the dining halls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What gives California schools an edge in the rankings? It’s something in the ethos of the state, says Avital Andrews, Sierra magazine’s lifestyle editor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“(California schools) really pay attention to their water use and their energy use,\" she says. \"It’s easier to get outside here in the winter, so schools encourage students to get outdoors at all times of the year and farm the campus farms or do trash pickups.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some highlights from each school:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>UC Irvine:\u003c/strong> Of all the California schools, Irvine was at the top, coming in third nationally. The university has saved 20 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year since 2009 through the use of a co-generation facility and other energy-preserving projects. It also has a 16-acre botanical garden, and Meatless Mondays are strongly encouraged.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>UC Davis:\u003c/strong> An agricultural education powerhouse, the research done at UC Davis helps shape national and statewide water laws. The school is considered a leader on best practices in farming. It's also home to America’s biggest zero-net-energy community, where students and faculty can live. An action plan on cutting emissions to levels below year 2000 is also in effect.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stanford:\u003c/strong> The school has raised more than $430 million for the Initiative on the Environment and Sustainability, and a big chunk of that money will go toward a new energy facility that will cut its carbon emissions in half. Water use has already been cut by 20 percent. There are more than 700 sustainability-related classes, and a student is unlikely to graduate without having taken at least one course that touches on ecoliteracy.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>UC Santa Barbara:\u003c/strong> UCSB has 44 LEED-certified buildings. Forty-seven percent of its academic departments offer a class on sustainability, totaling about 300. Half of the food served at dining halls is local. Seventy-five percent of waste gets diverted from the landfill through recycling and composting. And biking is huge. Ninety-four percent of students take alternative means of transit to class.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The magazine also focused this year on the impact environmentally-friendly polices have on students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who graduate do end up recycling, composting, growing their own vegetables, doing the things that they saw happen around them at college,” says Andrews. “To them, it’s just normal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though more and more schools are taking green measures, Andrews notes that there is still plenty of room for growth. 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