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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he closest most of us will ever get to the remote oil field site where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Chevron well has been leaking\u003c/a> crude petroleum for 2½ months is a fast trip on Interstate 5 on the way from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you glance to the right as you head south on I-5 past the Buttonwillow exit -- just a glance, because you're probably going 80, maybe burning gasoline refined from California crude -- you'll see a range of low hills. Somewhere amid those distant ridges is where you'd find the Cymric oil field, the site of Chevron's leaking well.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s hell, literally hell. It roars and rips like hell. ... It smells and terrifies like hell. It is as uncontrollable as hell. It is as black and hot as hell.'\u003ccite>W.D. Young, California Oil World\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This landscape is not tourist country, but there's a spot 20 miles or so from the Chevron well that's familiar to California petroleum geeks and should be better known generally: the site of the 1910 Lakeview Gusher, an 18-month oil well blowout that was the single biggest crude oil spill in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n New Year's Day 1909, during a period of intense oil exploration in the belt of hills stretching along the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, a newly organized company began drilling in a promising spot just north of the town of Maricopa, in southwestern Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 14 months, no luck. Drillers had gone down more than 2,200 feet on the Lakeview No. 1 well and hadn't seen much to encourage them. By one account, Union Oil Co., which had bought a 51 percent interest in the well after the drilling started, decided it didn't want to sink any more time or money into what looked like a dry hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early the morning of March 14 or 15, 1910 -- yes, there's a disagreement about the date -- before the drilling crew was told of Union's decision, their rig hit a snag deep in the well. A bailer, a long steel cylinder designed to clear rock debris from the hole, was hung up on something. As the crew tried to free it, an explosive rush of high-pressure gas blew the bailer back up the well shaft and shot it into the air with such force it ripped off the top of the oil derrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lakeview Gusher was underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 581px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11762835\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men.jpg 581w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men-160x194.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew poses with the Lakeview Gusher.. The well flowed uncontrolled from March 1910 through September 1911, covering the surrounding landscape in crude oil and destroying the oil derrick used to drill the gusher's bore. \u003ccite>(West Kern Oil Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"A roaring column of sand and oil 20 feet in diameter and 200 feet high gushed into the air, and issued a stream of oil at its base, dubbed the 'Trout Stream,' which flowed down every adjacent ditch and gully,\" writes Bakersfield petroleum geologist Mike Clark in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjvgeology.org/history/lakeview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his account\u003c/a> of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lakeview Gusher wasn't front-page news at first. But as crude oil continued to blast from the hole, it was regarded first as a natural wonder, then as a wild, uncontrollable force, and finally as a headache -- an outpouring so overwhelming that it blackened the countryside for miles around and produced so much oil so fast it created an oversupply that depressed the California oil market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-800x973.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"973\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762846\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-160x195.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-1020x1240.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-987x1200.jpg 987w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-1920x2334.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1.jpg 1685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Tribune's initial report on the Lakeview Gusher, published March 17, 1910. The Trib's report was accompanied by a large ad, lower left, for local investors who had sunk a well adjacent to the Lakeview property. About 20 new oil companies were formed in the weeks after the gusher began. One landowner reportedly turned down a offer of $200,000 -- more than $5 million in 2019 dollars -- for a 20-acre property near the Lakeview well. \u003ccite>(Oakland Tribune via Newspapers.com )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest problem the Lakeview monster posed, as had other gushers in the California oil fields, was the nearly complete lack of infrastructure to deal with it. Nearby tank capacity was quickly used up and provisions had to be made to ship the oil for processing through the scant pipeline network in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ut first, some way had to be found to tame the flow. As streams of crude oil surged across the landscape, some worried it would reach (now vanished) Lake Buena Vista, a body of water on the edge of the valley that was used for irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers built dikes and primitive dams to contain the hundreds of thousands and then millions of barrels of oil that spouted from the well. Soon, the gusher was surrounded by 20 large ponds, or sumps, that slowly filled with black liquid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762841\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-1200x735.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, a temporary dam built during the effort to contain the crude oil flowing from the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. One concern for those in the area was that oil would flow downhill into Lake Buena Vista, an important source for irrigation water in the country southwest of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(W.C. Mendenhall/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A month after the Lakeview well blew, crews began building an enormous wooden box they hoped would stifle the exuberant outflow. The structure, said to have been crafted from enormous 14-by-14-inch timbers, took about a month to hammer together and tow into place over the gusher. It did nothing to stanch the torrent. Soon the structure began to disintegrate, and it vanished when the ground beneath it collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-800x501.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-1200x751.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A postcard showing the large wooden 'hood' built to try to contain the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. The force of the oil blasting from the well destroyed the structure. \u003ccite>(eBay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By some accounts, the torrent reached a height of 480 feet at times. Newspapers reported it could be seen from downtown Bakersfield, 35 miles to the northeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier gushers had come and gone, including some that briefly reached the same astounding rate of flow the Lakeview attained. But no one had seen anything like this -- a hydrocarbon geyser that continued day after day, week after week, month after month. It became a postcard subject and tourist attraction, even though fire and toxic gases posed a constant danger and spectators ran the risk of being drenched in oil if the wind shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762834\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-1200x761.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postcard showing the Lakeview Gusher in the weeks after it began in March 1910. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chris Otto/Papergreat.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762913\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-1200x757.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1.jpg 1652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Message on a postcard, sent in September 1910, depicting Lakeview Gusher. 'This view is of the famous oil well at Maricopa, maybe you have read about it.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chris Otto/Papergreat.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]E[/dropcap]asily the most vivid account of a visit to the Lakeview Gusher came from W.D. Young, who worked in the Kern County petroleum industry. Writing in a long extinct journal called California Oil World, he described the scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s hell, literally hell,\" Young wrote. \"It roars and rips like hell. ... It smells and terrifies like hell. It is as uncontrollable as hell. It is as black and hot as hell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took seven months for the hundreds of workers engaged in the battle to rein in the gusher. In a feat of brute labor, they built a 20-foot-high circular sandbag dike around the well. The pool inside the dike was finally deep enough to reduce the gusher to what geologist Mike Clark describes as \"a gurgling spout.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762844\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762844\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-1200x754.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakeview Gusher, after it had been reduced from a towering geyser to what one writer called 'a gurgling spout.' The figure in the background is George Otis Smith, director of the U.S. Geological Survey. \u003ccite>(W.C. Mendenhall/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That didn't halt the flow. It kept coming until the well caved in, in September 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates of the volume of crude oil produced by the Lakeview gusher are astounding and a little all over the map. A 1920 U.S. Geological Survey report put the daily peak at 65,000 barrels, or 2.7 million gallons. Clark pegs the peak flow at nearly double that -- 125,000 barrels, or 5.25 million gallons, daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month gusher total ranges from 8 million to 9.4 million barrels of oil -- 336 million to 395 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]A[/dropcap]t first, the gusher was seen as a boon, a windfall of black gold. But as the well continued to spew forth month after month, it began to create a glut on the oil market and caused crude prices to fall by 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July 1910, relaying reports that the gusher seemed nearly spent, the San Francisco Call said the news was cause for thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Operators have been earnestly hoping that the Lakeview would be checked,\" the Call said. \"It is today the one demoralizing factor in the industry. It has heaped its enormous output on the market at a time when production and consumption were balanced. It came without warning, when neither physical storage facilities nor financial arrangements had been completed for its care. In itself it has been a source of untold expense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glut occurred despite the fact millions of barrels of Lakeview oil never made it to market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762829\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11762829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2.jpg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2-160x126.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oilfield crew poles a skiff across the surface of one of the 20 or so 'sumps,' or temporary reservoirs, created to contain the flow of the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. \u003ccite>(West Kern Oil Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because the crude was stored in the open air for so long -- and through two blazing summers in the Kern County oil fields — much of it simply evaporated or percolated back into the ground. Estimates of the amount of crude lost this way generally range from 2 million to 6 million barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the Call's hopes, the gusher kept going for another 14 months. Later, Union oil company attempted to tap the well's underground reservoir again. The new well did produce oil — a mere 30 barrels a day — and was soon abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on the Kern County Oil Spill\" tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to tap the subterranean reservoir that fed the Lakeview failed. According to one often-quoted summary, the other wells failed because the gusher's source was very hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Lakeview reservoir was evidently a narrow, oil-filled channel of sandstone, only a few feet wide and about a mile long,\" a 2007 U.S. Geological Survey history of the gusher said. The Lakeview drillers had actually missed the reservoir by several feet, the USGS said, but the underground oil was at such high pressure it actually burst through sandstone and up the well bore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he question naturally arises: Are there still traces of this prodigious event?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are. If you're tempted sometime to get off I-5 and seek out \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/D4ScsUcaJJ9NYvXV6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the spot\u003c/a> — the site of an official \u003ca href=\"https://noehill.com/kern/cal0485.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historical marker\u003c/a> -- you'll find it about 20 miles west of the freeway on a rural byway called Petroleum Club Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the marker, traces of the sandbag berm used to surround the well, and extensive areas of sand and soil still bearing traces of the century-old gusher, are still visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/40372924911_3fd10f936d_o-e1563848101251.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/40372924911_3fd10f936d_o-800x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"289\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762873\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakeview Gusher site, on Petroleum Club Road, outside Maricopa in southwestern Kern County. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/24vBN1g\" targe=\"_blank\">Wayne Hsieh/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he closest most of us will ever get to the remote oil field site where \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762422/chevron-says-attempt-to-seal-off-well-may-have-triggered-big-kern-county-oil-spill\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a Chevron well has been leaking\u003c/a> crude petroleum for 2½ months is a fast trip on Interstate 5 on the way from the Bay Area to Los Angeles and back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you glance to the right as you head south on I-5 past the Buttonwillow exit -- just a glance, because you're probably going 80, maybe burning gasoline refined from California crude -- you'll see a range of low hills. Somewhere amid those distant ridges is where you'd find the Cymric oil field, the site of Chevron's leaking well.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'It’s hell, literally hell. It roars and rips like hell. ... It smells and terrifies like hell. It is as uncontrollable as hell. It is as black and hot as hell.'\u003ccite>W.D. Young, California Oil World\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>This landscape is not tourist country, but there's a spot 20 miles or so from the Chevron well that's familiar to California petroleum geeks and should be better known generally: the site of the 1910 Lakeview Gusher, an 18-month oil well blowout that was the single biggest crude oil spill in U.S. history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happened?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n New Year's Day 1909, during a period of intense oil exploration in the belt of hills stretching along the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, a newly organized company began drilling in a promising spot just north of the town of Maricopa, in southwestern Kern County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For 14 months, no luck. Drillers had gone down more than 2,200 feet on the Lakeview No. 1 well and hadn't seen much to encourage them. By one account, Union Oil Co., which had bought a 51 percent interest in the well after the drilling started, decided it didn't want to sink any more time or money into what looked like a dry hole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early the morning of March 14 or 15, 1910 -- yes, there's a disagreement about the date -- before the drilling crew was told of Union's decision, their rig hit a snag deep in the well. A bailer, a long steel cylinder designed to clear rock debris from the hole, was hung up on something. As the crew tried to free it, an explosive rush of high-pressure gas blew the bailer back up the well shaft and shot it into the air with such force it ripped off the top of the oil derrick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lakeview Gusher was underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 581px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11762835\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men.jpg 581w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/97-057-002-Lakeview-men-160x194.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crew poses with the Lakeview Gusher.. The well flowed uncontrolled from March 1910 through September 1911, covering the surrounding landscape in crude oil and destroying the oil derrick used to drill the gusher's bore. \u003ccite>(West Kern Oil Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"A roaring column of sand and oil 20 feet in diameter and 200 feet high gushed into the air, and issued a stream of oil at its base, dubbed the 'Trout Stream,' which flowed down every adjacent ditch and gully,\" writes Bakersfield petroleum geologist Mike Clark in \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjvgeology.org/history/lakeview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his account\u003c/a> of the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lakeview Gusher wasn't front-page news at first. But as crude oil continued to blast from the hole, it was regarded first as a natural wonder, then as a wild, uncontrollable force, and finally as a headache -- an outpouring so overwhelming that it blackened the countryside for miles around and produced so much oil so fast it created an oversupply that depressed the California oil market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762846\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-800x973.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"973\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762846\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-800x973.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-160x195.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-1020x1240.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-987x1200.jpg 987w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1-1920x2334.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-trib-a-1.jpg 1685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Tribune's initial report on the Lakeview Gusher, published March 17, 1910. The Trib's report was accompanied by a large ad, lower left, for local investors who had sunk a well adjacent to the Lakeview property. About 20 new oil companies were formed in the weeks after the gusher began. One landowner reportedly turned down a offer of $200,000 -- more than $5 million in 2019 dollars -- for a 20-acre property near the Lakeview well. \u003ccite>(Oakland Tribune via Newspapers.com )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest problem the Lakeview monster posed, as had other gushers in the California oil fields, was the nearly complete lack of infrastructure to deal with it. Nearby tank capacity was quickly used up and provisions had to be made to ship the oil for processing through the scant pipeline network in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">B\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ut first, some way had to be found to tame the flow. As streams of crude oil surged across the landscape, some worried it would reach (now vanished) Lake Buena Vista, a body of water on the edge of the valley that was used for irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers built dikes and primitive dams to contain the hundreds of thousands and then millions of barrels of oil that spouted from the well. Soon, the gusher was surrounded by 20 large ponds, or sumps, that slowly filled with black liquid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762841\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-800x490.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"490\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762841\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-800x490.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-1020x625.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1-1200x735.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-4-1.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, a temporary dam built during the effort to contain the crude oil flowing from the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. One concern for those in the area was that oil would flow downhill into Lake Buena Vista, an important source for irrigation water in the country southwest of Bakersfield. \u003ccite>(W.C. Mendenhall/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A month after the Lakeview well blew, crews began building an enormous wooden box they hoped would stifle the exuberant outflow. The structure, said to have been crafted from enormous 14-by-14-inch timbers, took about a month to hammer together and tow into place over the gusher. It did nothing to stanch the torrent. Soon the structure began to disintegrate, and it vanished when the ground beneath it collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-800x501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-800x501.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-1020x639.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box-1200x751.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-gusher-box.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A postcard showing the large wooden 'hood' built to try to contain the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. The force of the oil blasting from the well destroyed the structure. \u003ccite>(eBay)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By some accounts, the torrent reached a height of 480 feet at times. Newspapers reported it could be seen from downtown Bakersfield, 35 miles to the northeast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier gushers had come and gone, including some that briefly reached the same astounding rate of flow the Lakeview attained. But no one had seen anything like this -- a hydrocarbon geyser that continued day after day, week after week, month after month. It became a postcard subject and tourist attraction, even though fire and toxic gases posed a constant danger and spectators ran the risk of being drenched in oil if the wind shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-800x508.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762834\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-800x508.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-160x102.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-1020x647.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard-1200x761.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-postcard.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Postcard showing the Lakeview Gusher in the weeks after it began in March 1910. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chris Otto/Papergreat.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762913\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-800x505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"505\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762913\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-800x505.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-1020x643.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1-1200x757.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/POSTCARD_REVERSE_1.jpg 1652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Message on a postcard, sent in September 1910, depicting Lakeview Gusher. 'This view is of the famous oil well at Maricopa, maybe you have read about it.' \u003ccite>(Courtesy Chris Otto/Papergreat.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>asily the most vivid account of a visit to the Lakeview Gusher came from W.D. Young, who worked in the Kern County petroleum industry. Writing in a long extinct journal called California Oil World, he described the scene:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s hell, literally hell,\" Young wrote. \"It roars and rips like hell. ... It smells and terrifies like hell. It is as uncontrollable as hell. It is as black and hot as hell.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took seven months for the hundreds of workers engaged in the battle to rein in the gusher. In a feat of brute labor, they built a 20-foot-high circular sandbag dike around the well. The pool inside the dike was finally deep enough to reduce the gusher to what geologist Mike Clark describes as \"a gurgling spout.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762844\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762844\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-800x503.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-160x101.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1-1200x754.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/lakeview-usgs-mendenhall-2-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lakeview Gusher, after it had been reduced from a towering geyser to what one writer called 'a gurgling spout.' The figure in the background is George Otis Smith, director of the U.S. Geological Survey. \u003ccite>(W.C. Mendenhall/U.S. Geological Survey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That didn't halt the flow. It kept coming until the well caved in, in September 1911.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estimates of the volume of crude oil produced by the Lakeview gusher are astounding and a little all over the map. A 1920 U.S. Geological Survey report put the daily peak at 65,000 barrels, or 2.7 million gallons. Clark pegs the peak flow at nearly double that -- 125,000 barrels, or 5.25 million gallons, daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 18-month gusher total ranges from 8 million to 9.4 million barrels of oil -- 336 million to 395 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">A\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>t first, the gusher was seen as a boon, a windfall of black gold. But as the well continued to spew forth month after month, it began to create a glut on the oil market and caused crude prices to fall by 50 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late July 1910, relaying reports that the gusher seemed nearly spent, the San Francisco Call said the news was cause for thanksgiving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Operators have been earnestly hoping that the Lakeview would be checked,\" the Call said. \"It is today the one demoralizing factor in the industry. It has heaped its enormous output on the market at a time when production and consumption were balanced. It came without warning, when neither physical storage facilities nor financial arrangements had been completed for its care. In itself it has been a source of untold expense.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glut occurred despite the fact millions of barrels of Lakeview oil never made it to market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762829\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"629\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11762829\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2.jpg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/wkom-lakeview2-160x126.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oilfield crew poles a skiff across the surface of one of the 20 or so 'sumps,' or temporary reservoirs, created to contain the flow of the Lakeview Gusher in 1910. \u003ccite>(West Kern Oil Museum)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Because the crude was stored in the open air for so long -- and through two blazing summers in the Kern County oil fields — much of it simply evaporated or percolated back into the ground. Estimates of the amount of crude lost this way generally range from 2 million to 6 million barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the Call's hopes, the gusher kept going for another 14 months. Later, Union oil company attempted to tap the well's underground reservoir again. The new well did produce oil — a mere 30 barrels a day — and was soon abandoned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to tap the subterranean reservoir that fed the Lakeview failed. According to one often-quoted summary, the other wells failed because the gusher's source was very hard to find.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Lakeview reservoir was evidently a narrow, oil-filled channel of sandstone, only a few feet wide and about a mile long,\" a 2007 U.S. Geological Survey history of the gusher said. The Lakeview drillers had actually missed the reservoir by several feet, the USGS said, but the underground oil was at such high pressure it actually burst through sandstone and up the well bore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he question naturally arises: Are there still traces of this prodigious event?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are. If you're tempted sometime to get off I-5 and seek out \u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/maps/D4ScsUcaJJ9NYvXV6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the spot\u003c/a> — the site of an official \u003ca href=\"https://noehill.com/kern/cal0485.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historical marker\u003c/a> -- you'll find it about 20 miles west of the freeway on a rural byway called Petroleum Club Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the marker, traces of the sandbag berm used to surround the well, and extensive areas of sand and soil still bearing traces of the century-old gusher, are still visible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762873\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/40372924911_3fd10f936d_o-e1563848101251.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/40372924911_3fd10f936d_o-800x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"289\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762873\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lakeview Gusher site, on Petroleum Club Road, outside Maricopa in southwestern Kern County. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://flic.kr/p/24vBN1g\" targe=\"_blank\">Wayne Hsieh/Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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There won't be Facebook to get the word out. Phones might not be charged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan also flagged concerns about whether law enforcement vehicles blaring the new evacuation siren will be able to make it into neighborhoods if a disaster has already brought down trees and power lines, rendering roads impassable. But she said any attempts to improve emergency communications is welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything is a help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Honea hopes the new siren will help maximize his agency's reach during an emergency, noting that it's difficult to ensure universal communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter how many platforms you message on, there is no way to ensure 100% saturation of your message,\" Honea said. \"Technology may fail you when the infrastructure goes down. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inability of counties to effectively alert residents of a fast-approaching wildfire was an issue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11711175/butte-county-to-reassess-emergency-alert-system-in-aftermath-of-camp-fire\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">during the Camp Fire\u003c/a> as well as the North Bay Fires in 2017. This fire season, PG&E has begun \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11750896/cpuc-pge-deenergization-wildfire-safety-power-shutoffs\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preemptive shutdowns\u003c/a> of power lines during high fire danger, leading some residents to worry about how that could impact evacuation warnings.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710539/its-been-a-blur-butte-county-sheriff-looks-back-on-camp-fire-one-month-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">'It's Been a Blur': Butte County Sheriff Looks Back on Camp Fire One Month Later\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11710539/its-been-a-blur-butte-county-sheriff-looks-back-on-camp-fire-one-month-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/12/Honea2-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654667/map-where-the-north-bay-fires-burned-and-who-was-called-to-evacuate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MAP: Where the North Bay Fires Burned and Who Was Called to Evacuate\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11654667/map-where-the-north-bay-fires-burned-and-who-was-called-to-evacuate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/03/MapFeaturedImg.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"For some, a Facebook notice was the only notice they got (during the Camp Fire),\" said Chico resident Susan Sullivan outside of a recent hearing on PG&E's proposed rate increases. \"With power shutoffs, that notice won't be there. There won't be Facebook to get the word out. Phones might not be charged.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sullivan also flagged concerns about whether law enforcement vehicles blaring the new evacuation siren will be able to make it into neighborhoods if a disaster has already brought down trees and power lines, rendering roads impassable. But she said any attempts to improve emergency communications is welcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Anything is a help,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Honea hopes the new siren will help maximize his agency's reach during an emergency, noting that it's difficult to ensure universal communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No matter how many platforms you message on, there is no way to ensure 100% saturation of your message,\" Honea said. \"Technology may fail you when the infrastructure goes down. So I think we need to bring a clear understanding of what our capabilities are and manage expectations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Honea says the idea to install the European-style siren tones in Butte County vehicles is borrowed from similar initiatives taken by Sonoma and Napa counties following the North Bay Fires in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Malibu is \u003ca href=\"https://www.radiomalibu.net/city-will-call-cell-phones-and-landlines-in-2-weeks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considering\u003c/a> stationary loudspeaker siren towers so it can broadcast audio messages using renewable power sources that would serve as an alternative in case the primary power infrastructure fails. Malibu was hit by the deadly Woolsey Fire just as the Camp Fire was ravaging Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 12:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says that its crews' efforts to seal off a damaged and abandoned well in a Kern County oil field are believed to have started a chain of events that led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760192/chevron-well-has-leaked-a-quarter-million-gallons-of-oil-in-central-valley-since-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the unintentional release\u003c/a> of an estimated 855,000 gallons of oil and water over the last two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company also said in a background briefing Friday that it believes its attempts to confirm the source of the original leak and shut it down unleashed even higher flows in the weeks after the initial problem was discovered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\" label=\"More on Kern County Spill\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident, which began May 10, led to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11761141/state-orders-chevron-to-stop-massive-crude-oil-release-in-kern-county-oil-field\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an order\u003c/a> from state oil and gas regulators for Chevron to \"take all measures\" to stop the spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flow reactivated this week, pouring about 62,000 additional gallons of liquid into a dry creek bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spill, which state officials have said consists of about one-third crude oil, was first reported by KQED last week and prompted calls from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762169/key-state-lawmakers-to-call-for-hearings-into-chevron-oil-spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">state legislators\u003c/a> who want to know what happened at the well site and why it so long for the incident to become public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron officials say they've traced the spill — formally called a surface expression and which they refer to as a seep — to work the company says it routinely does to keep tabs on wells that have been taken out of production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We continue to evaluate the source of the seep, but believe the likely cause to be related to the abandonment of a well,\" Chevron spokesman Morgan Crinklaw said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The well was one of the 40 or so that Chevron typically abandons each year in the Cymric oil field, just outside the town of McKittrick and 35 miles west of Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says the well in question had been taken out of production and \"plugged and abandoned\" -- filled with concrete -- because of damage in the bore hole that posed a risk of material flowing to the surface from the Cymric's underground reservoir of crude oil and water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand the abandonment process and why crude oil might have begun flowing again from a plugged well requires a short detour into some of what's going on inside an oil well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petroleum well bores include a casing -- basically a steel pipe -- that is run down into a hole after it's drilled. Cement is pumped into the hole to hold the casing in place and create a barrier around the casing to minimize the possibility of an uncontrolled flow of crude oil, natural gas and subterranean water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That flow could enter groundwater or adjacent layers of rock and gradually seep to the surface. In an extreme case, an uncontrolled flow could occur as \u003ca href=\"https://www.rigzone.com/training/insight.asp?insight_id=300&c_id=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a blowout\u003c/a>, an explosive release of oil and gas that manifests itself as a fire or oil gusher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says that when it abandons a well, it plugs the bore hole with cement to a depth intended to ensure it's permanently sealed. If data from oil field monitoring raises questions about the seal — perhaps because of cracks in the cement plug — it may be \"re-entered.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Re-entry\" is essentially a \"redo\" of the abandonment process: Crews use instruments to investigate whether cement in the abandoned well is faulty. If it is, they use a special rig to remove the old cement from the bore hole, then replace it with new cement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chevron says that in May it was in the process of re-entering some of its abandoned Cymric wells to provide new cement barriers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company says that the initial flows from the previously damaged well, first reported to state officials on May 10, began when it was re-entered. The releases occurred again at a larger scale on June 8 when Chevron conducted a pressure test in the area to confirm the cause of the May flow. Even more oil and water began pouring from the site on June 23 when crews attempted to complete the job of replacing cement in the re-entered well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Ehlig-Economides, a professor of petroleum engineering at the University of Houston, said in an email interview that the cement used to seal bore holes can fracture and that the resulting gaps can allow liquid or gas to begin flowing into adjacent rock areas or to the surface.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ehlig-Economides said that cement cracks have a variety of potential causes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Lake Tahoe is the fullest it has been in nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the alpine lake on the California-Nevada border is approaching the legal limit after snowmelt from a stormy winter left enough water to potentially last through three summers of drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Chad Blanchard, a federal water master in Reno']'We've had big (snow) years, but this one is unique as far as being up within an inch of being full and it's just hanging there.'[/pullquote]For three weeks, Tahoe has been within an inch (25 millimeters) of its maximum allowed surface elevation of 6,229.1 feet (1,898 meters) above sea level. 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It's a product of still having so much snow up there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762502\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762502\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Tahoe on March 31, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_tahoe_severn_march-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Tahoe on March 31, 2019. \u003ccite>(Carly Severn/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lake Tahoe, the second-deepest lake in the U.S. at about 1,645 feet (501 meters), typically holds enough water to cover the entire state of California with 14 inches (35 centimeters) of the wet stuff. Only Oregon's Crater Lake is deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As winter snow continues to melt from mountaintops and into Tahoe, the rate of summertime surface evaporation is beginning to pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762516\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_lake-tahoe_snow_winter_water_zach-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Tahoe on July 10, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_lake-tahoe_snow_winter_water_zach-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_lake-tahoe_snow_winter_water_zach-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_lake-tahoe_snow_winter_water_zach-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_lake-tahoe_snow_winter_water_zach-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/07192019_lake-tahoe_snow_winter_water_zach-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Tahoe on July 10, 2019. \u003ccite>(David Zach/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Blanchard says the lake soon will reach a point of equilibrium when snowmelt slows and the rate of evaporation increases. Then, the lake level will begin to drop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='snow' label='Related Coverage']\"What it means going forward is a good water supply for three years,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legal limit of the lake plays a role in determining if, when and how much water is spilled into the Truckee River at a dam in Tahoe City, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Mercury News reported the lake level has risen 8 feet (2.5 meters) since the beginning of 2016, when it hit a low point during California's five-year drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer will be the third time in the past three years that the lake has come up to the edge of its legal limit. That previously happened in 1998, 1999 and 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Rayan Rafay was prepared to be blown away by Bay Area seafood when he moved here in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After growing up on the East Coast, he had been amazed by the seafood he encountered when he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just this like magical wonderland of seafood,” he said. “Chefs just did things with seafood on the West Coast that I’d never even imagined in my lemon butter world of fish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafay said he saw this in Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, and he assumed he would find the same thing when he moved to the Bay Area. After all, it’s a place with a long tradition of fishing and home to many immigrant groups — Chinese, Japanese, Italians and others — for whom fish play a big part in culture and diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafay even went out on local waters with a commercial fisherman and caught his own rock cod and halibut. But back on land, he wasn’t seeing those local catches showing up on many local menus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t find any of the fish that I’m pretty sure are right outside in the ocean,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>: With the Pacific Ocean right there, \u003cstrong>why isn’t local seafood a bigger deal in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Show Me the Money\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like many things in the Bay Area, the seeming dearth of a robust local seafood scene can be traced in part to the cost of doing business — and that, in turn, can be traced to the region’s high real estate costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How expensive it is to stay in business in the Bay Area means that all of us who are in business are trying to find ways to cut costs, and we are cutting costs in the ingredients that we are using,” said Kenny Belov, who runs Fish restaurant in Sausalito and TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11762128 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lourdes Mendoza guts rockfish at TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco on May 31, 2019. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area restaurants have to deal with high rents and high salaries among other costs, and adding in the volatility and uncertainty that comes with buying local, wild-caught seafood can make things even tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s much easier and more economical, according to Belov, for restaurants to serve Atlantic salmon raised in fish farms. These fish provide a consistent supply at a consistent price all year long, but some see farmed salmon as an inferior product and potentially harmful to the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Local Seafood Resources\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The latest data from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows the \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=159550&inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 100 species\u003c/a> of seafood that are caught in the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rates seafood\u003c/a> based on its sustainability. It also offers a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/our-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobile app\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/guides/mba-seafoodwatch-west-coast-guide.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">printable consumer guides\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market at the Ferry Building in San Francisco has a list of \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/eat-seasonally/charts/seafood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 local seafood options\u003c/a> sold seasonally at its market.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/99587/bay-area-bites-guide-to-8-places-to-buy-fresh-fish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Bites Guide to 8 Great Places to Buy Fresh Fish\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/recipes/article/The-seafood-calendar-What-s-in-season-locally-6403686.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The seafood calendar: What’s in season locally\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wholesale farmed salmon sells for around $8 per pound year-round, while wild-caught salmon is going for closer to $20 per pound this year, and isn’t guaranteed to be available every day even in season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belov doesn’t offer farmed salmon at Fish restaurant or TwoXSea, instead choosing to only buy and serve seafood that can be traced all the way back to the boat it was caught on and the person who reeled it in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me that’s what makes food taste better. It’s not just food on a plate. It’s the story of the men and women who work so hard to get those ingredients,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows doing that raises his costs, and he says part of the reason more restaurants aren’t willing to take on those extra costs is because there’s not enough demand from consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to seafood we just don’t want to pay a lot for it,” Belov said of Bay Area diners. “We’re still kind of in that fish-stick mentality of it’s cheap, it’s protein and it’s abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, consumers in places like China and Japan are more than willing to pay top dollar for many of the region’s top catches, including crab, spiny lobster and black cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Salmon for sale at Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locally caught chinook salmon for sale at the Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Where Are the Fish?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about the demand; the supply of wild-caught Bay Area seafood has been in flux in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several California fisheries, including chinook salmon, Dungeness crab and rockfish, have been curtailed or temporarily shut down in recent years due to population declines traced to overfishing, water diversions, habitat destruction and drought, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of fish that we can actually catch has gone way down,” said Mike Hudson, who has worked as a commercial fisherman in the Bay Area for decades, catching mostly salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson remembers years when the region’s chinook salmon season netted more than a million fish in just a few months. But the salmon fishery was completely shut down in 2008 and 2009, and it has been carefully managed ever since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762130\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Commercial fisherman Mike Hudson off-loads a boat full of chinook salmon at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38123_IMG_7086-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commercial fisherman Mike Hudson offloads a boat full of chinook salmon at Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay. \u003ccite>(Ryan Levi/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/California-salmon-season-nears-with-hopes-of-a-13772919.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significant restrictions\u003c/a> placed on salmon season the past three years, resulting in fewer fish and prices jumping to around $30 to $35 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People used to come to our farmers markets and buy 2 pounds of salmon or 4 pounds of salmon for their family for the entire week,” Hudson said. “Now the same people come and they buy half a pound.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to restore habitat, improve salmon hatchery practices and recent wet winters have fishermen like Hudson \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/food/article/California-fishermen-report-the-biggest-salmon-14028875.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">feeling optimistic\u003c/a> about the upcoming and future salmon seasons, but the salmon population is still far from the million-fish seasons of Hudson’s early days, and a fillet still costs around $20 per pound.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Knowledge Is Power\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>But it’s not all about how much local, wild-caught seafood costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s also just a lack of awareness,” said Jana Hennig, the executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://www.positivelygroundfish.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positively Groundfish\u003c/a>, a nonprofit that promotes groundfish caught on the West Coast. “Most people just don’t know what is even a local species here in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the 90 or so species of groundfish that Hennig works with — which include Pacific cod, rockfish and sole — aren’t as expensive as better-known Dungeness crab or chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because many consumers aren’t as aware of the breadth of local options, Hennig said many Bay Area chefs are hesitant to feature them on their menu, even with the low cost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If more people actually went to restaurants and said, ‘Hey, do you have any local seafood? And do you ever serve rockfish?’ They’d be far more inclined to actually put it on the menu,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t find any of the fish that I’m pretty sure are right outside in the ocean,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he asked \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>: With the Pacific Ocean right there, \u003cstrong>why isn’t local seafood a bigger deal in the Bay Area?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Show Me the Money\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Like many things in the Bay Area, the seeming dearth of a robust local seafood scene can be traced in part to the cost of doing business — and that, in turn, can be traced to the region’s high real estate costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How expensive it is to stay in business in the Bay Area means that all of us who are in business are trying to find ways to cut costs, and we are cutting costs in the ingredients that we are using,” said Kenny Belov, who runs Fish restaurant in Sausalito and TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762128\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11762128 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS37415_IMG_1609-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lourdes Mendoza guts rockfish at TwoXSea, a seafood wholesaler at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco on May 31, 2019. \u003ccite>(Audrey Garces/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Bay Area restaurants have to deal with high rents and high salaries among other costs, and adding in the volatility and uncertainty that comes with buying local, wild-caught seafood can make things even tougher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s much easier and more economical, according to Belov, for restaurants to serve Atlantic salmon raised in fish farms. These fish provide a consistent supply at a consistent price all year long, but some see farmed salmon as an inferior product and potentially harmful to the oceans.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>Local Seafood Resources\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The latest data from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows the \u003ca href=\"https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=159550&inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 100 species\u003c/a> of seafood that are caught in the Bay Area.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rates seafood\u003c/a> based on its sustainability. It also offers a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/seafood-recommendations/our-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mobile app\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.seafoodwatch.org/-/m/sfw/pdf/guides/mba-seafoodwatch-west-coast-guide.pdf?la=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">printable consumer guides\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market at the Ferry Building in San Francisco has a list of \u003ca href=\"https://cuesa.org/eat-seasonally/charts/seafood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 local seafood options\u003c/a> sold seasonally at its market.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/99587/bay-area-bites-guide-to-8-places-to-buy-fresh-fish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Area Bites Guide to 8 Great Places to Buy Fresh Fish\u003c/a> (KQED)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/recipes/article/The-seafood-calendar-What-s-in-season-locally-6403686.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The seafood calendar: What’s in season locally\u003c/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wholesale farmed salmon sells for around $8 per pound year-round, while wild-caught salmon is going for closer to $20 per pound this year, and isn’t guaranteed to be available every day even in season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Belov doesn’t offer farmed salmon at Fish restaurant or TwoXSea, instead choosing to only buy and serve seafood that can be traced all the way back to the boat it was caught on and the person who reeled it in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me that’s what makes food taste better. It’s not just food on a plate. It’s the story of the men and women who work so hard to get those ingredients,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he knows doing that raises his costs, and he says part of the reason more restaurants aren’t willing to take on those extra costs is because there’s not enough demand from consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It seems like when it comes to seafood we just don’t want to pay a lot for it,” Belov said of Bay Area diners. “We’re still kind of in that fish-stick mentality of it’s cheap, it’s protein and it’s abundant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, consumers in places like China and Japan are more than willing to pay top dollar for many of the region’s top catches, including crab, spiny lobster and black cod.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11762131\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11762131\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Salmon for sale at Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/RS38122_IMG_3927-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Locally caught chinook salmon for sale at the Berkeley Bowl on June 22, 2019. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Where Are the Fish?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s not just about the demand; the supply of wild-caught Bay Area seafood has been in flux in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several California fisheries, including chinook salmon, Dungeness crab and rockfish, have been curtailed or temporarily shut down in recent years due to population declines traced to overfishing, water diversions, habitat destruction and drought, among other factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The number of fish that we can actually catch has gone way down,” said Mike Hudson, who has worked as a commercial fisherman in the Bay Area for decades, catching mostly salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hudson remembers years when the region’s chinook salmon season netted more than a million fish in just a few months. 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"content": "\u003cp>The two top California lawmakers that oversee the state's oil industry plan to call for hearings into a recent, massive oil spill in Kern County and revelations that officials at the agency that regulate oil wells held investments in the companies they were supposed to keep watch over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am absolutely committed to calling for an oversight hearing, once we have a new oil and gas supervisor, to look both at the spill and the response to the spill and to look at the conflict issues,\" Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, the chair of the Committee on Natural Resources, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"kern-county-oil-spill\" label=\"More Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friedman's comments come as Chevron and state regulators revealed Thursday that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.conservation.ca.gov/dog/Pages/Chevron-Cymric-oil-spill.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new leak\u003c/a> started this week at the scene of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11760192/chevron-well-has-leaked-a-quarter-million-gallons-of-oil-in-central-valley-since-may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">800,000 gallon oil and water spill\u003c/a> in the Cyrmic Oil Field, which is about 35 miles west of Bakersfield. 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The university has all-electric buildings — from labs and dormitories to office space — going up around the state “in all climate zones,” Bell said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is proving to be a cost-effective way to meet our greenhouse gas reduction goals, saving money in all building types,” he added. “Having a strong policy is essential to overcoming ‘business as usual’ in development practices and encourage the next generation of buildings being constructed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd applauded PG&E’s Darin Cline when he made the utility company’s position clear: “PG&E supports local government policies that promote all-electric new construction.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her initial presentation, Harrison noted that electricity is easier and faster than gas to reinstate after a power outage and that, in Berkeley, electricity is cleaner than gas: at least 78% carbon-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws like this are important, according to the ordinance and prior city policies, because Berkeley is in the midst of a “climate emergency.” Natural gas makes up 27% of Berkeley’s greenhouse gas emissions and 73% of its building sector emissions, Harrison said. 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Each time the state expands its models and analyses, the city will be able to update its law without returning to the council for a new vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Natural gas may be allowed in new projects if an applicant can show that “it is not physically feasible to construct the building” without it, according to the ordinance language. But new construction must be built so it can be converted to all-electric in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new ordinance includes exemptions for internal \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/01/07/despite-relaxed-laws-building-an-accessory-dwelling-unit-in-berkeley-can-still-prove-challenging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accessory dwelling units\u003c/a> (those built inside an existing home) as well as projects that the city’s Zoning Adjustments Board or planning staff determine are in the public interest. 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He said it would be yet another chance for Berkeley to be a trendsetter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You see those changes go to other cities, then go up to the state level and then go to the national level,” Hochschild said. “That’s how change happens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California, he noted, has a state mandate in place to get to 100% clean energy by 2045, and electrification is the next step in that endeavor. Fifty other cities in the state are “actively considering” legislation related to phasing out natural gas, he told the council, “but Berkeley’s the first, thanks to you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Jesse Arreguín picked up on that theme: “Ideas start here and movements are born here,” he said of Berkeley. 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The incident, adjacent to a well site operated by Chevron, began in May and has occurred in an oil field where steam is injected deep into the ground to make crude petroleum easier to extract. \u003ccite>(California Department of Conservation)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11761784\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/IMG_0156-e1563320600829.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11761784\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/IMG_0156-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam vents from the ground at the site of \"surface expressions\" that have spilled nearly 800,000 of a crude oil-water mixture into a dry creek bed in Kern County. 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