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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2015/06/Science_Water_Recycling.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing record-low water supplies and a dry summer ahead, some California farmers are getting creative in looking for new sources of water. In one community, they’re planning to buy water from cities — after it’s already been used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through flushing toilets and running faucets, the city of Modesto produces millions of gallons of wastewater a day, just a stone’s throw from some of the driest agricultural areas in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“As long as it’s wet, it’s water and it’s valuable.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Will Wong, city of Modesto\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In a few years, that wastewater — treated and disinfected — could flow to farms in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.stanislauslafco.org/info/PDF/SOI/Districts/DelPuertoWD.pdf\">Del Puerto Water District\u003c/a>, in what would be the largest urban-to-agriculture water recycling project in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can’t go fast enough,” says Anthea Hansen, who runs the Del Puerto Water District. “Any water would be welcomed at this point.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason is right outside her office window. “This field across the street is about 350 acres,” Hansen says, looking out at bare ground. “This land would typically be farmed in, probably, tomatoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of the district’s 45,000 acres are fallowed this year, but half of the district is planted in permanent crops, like almonds, that require water every year to stay alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Crazy’ wouldn’t adequately describe what we’re going through here,” Hansen says. “Having zero water available, we’ve been in survival and crisis mode for, literally, 24 months now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto.jpg\" alt=\"A quarter of farm fields in the Del Puerto Water District are fallowed this year.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-400x229.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-1440x825.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-1180x676.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-960x550.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quarter of farm fields in the Del Puerto Water District are fallowed this year. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hansen’s district relies entirely on water from federal reservoirs in the state, through the Central Valley Project. But with record-low snowpack during the drought, that supply has been cut off completely for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district doesn’t have water rights to local rivers, and lacks groundwater to pump, as many other agricultural areas have turned to doing this year. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/06/23/some-california-farmers-fallow-fields-others-sell-water-for-big-profits/\">Buying water\u003c/a> on the open market has been Hansen’s only option, but prices have gone through the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drought-Proof Supply\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even during the drought, around 240,000 Modesto residents produce a steady stream of water — in the form of sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water is water,” says Will Wong, engineering division manager for the city of Modesto. “As long as it’s wet, it’s water and it’s valuable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s wastewater treatment plant is undergoing a $150 million upgrade to meet new water quality requirements. Currently, most of its wastewater is discharged into the San Joaquin River, and to protect the river, the city is being required to meet higher, “tertiary,” standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77773\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3.jpg\" alt=\"New filtering equipment is installed at the Modesto wastewater treament plant, part of a $150 million upgrade.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New filtering equipment is being installed at the Modesto wastewater treatment plant, part of a $150 million upgrade. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The nice thing is that we have technology on our side here,” Wong says, “to take water that has some solids and whatnot, and essentially strip everything away and bring back pure water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New equipment will filter and disinfect the wastewater with ultraviolet light. It won’t be drinking water quality, but, according to state standards, it’ll be clean enough to use on crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what’s called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvr-recycledwater.org/\">North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program\u003c/a>, the Del Puerto Water District would construct a six-mile, $100 million pipeline to carry the wastewater from the city to the Delta Mendota Canal. From there, it would go to the district’s farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really, really, really, truly hope that we can bring it across the line because it will be a model for others,” Hansen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water would be expensive for farmers, four to five times normal prices, but Hansen says that’s the cost of reliability. Growers like Jim Jasper are more than willing to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When something like this comes up, you don’t have to think about it twice,” says Jasper, who owns Stewart & Jasper Orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“There’s absolutely more potential for recycled water use in California.”\u003ccite>Heather Cooley, Pacific Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> “Most farmers are internal optimists and I like to be optimistic,” Jasper says, “but without something like this, the future for my son and grandson and family — we’re into this third generation — I don’t know if we can keep our business going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water would meet about one-third of the water district’s “hardened” demand, or the minimal supply it can get by on. The cities of Turlock and Ceres are also looking at joining the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recycling on the Rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other agricultural areas are taking notice, as they face their own drought shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s absolutely more potential for recycled water use in California,” says Heather Cooley of the Pacific Institute, a non-profit water think tank in Oakland. According to her \u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/publication/ca-water-supply-solutions/\">analysis\u003c/a>, California could be using two to three times more recycled water for many purposes, including urban landscape and golf course irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recycling urban wastewater in coastal cities would have added benefits, she says. When wastewater is discharged into the ocean, it creates pollution problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”aQvcv7vl2ZQvV94UBJ1YzNZnE2UqDnYU”]But in inland areas, treated wastewater is usually released into rivers, so removing that source of water from the river by recycling it could impact the river itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand where that water would have gone,” Cooley says. “Is it providing important environmental flows? Is it providing water to a downstream community such that if you’re recycling it, there’s no longer water for that community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges From Other Farmers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two agricultural water districts are protesting the North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program, saying it could harm the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westlands Water District, the largest irrigation district in the country, is challenging the project for its possible effects on the San Joaquin River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is used so heavily by the region that it \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/02/24/california-drought-one-more-setback-for-river-that-runs-dry/\">runs completely dry\u003c/a> in some years. As a result, minimal standards have been put in place to ensure enough water is flowing to protect water quality and the endangered salmon that use the river. When those standards aren’t met, water pumping to local irrigation districts must be slowed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wastewater from Modesto and Turlock makes up only a tiny fraction of the overall flow of the San Joaquin River, but Westlands would rather see it go into the river, instead of being recycled, to help meet water quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77876\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6.jpg\" alt=\"A six-mile pipeline would connect Modesto's wastewater treament plant to a canal that reaches Del Puerto Water District's farms.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-400x229.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-1440x825.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-1180x676.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-960x550.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A six-mile pipeline would connect Modesto’s wastewater treament plant to a canal that reaches Del Puerto Water District’s farms. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In terms of San Joaquin River flow, we are at a point where every acre-foot is important,” Tom Birmingham, General Manager of Westlands Water District, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Turlock Irrigation District say they’d rather see the wastewater used to replenish local groundwater, and to combat overpumping in the area. The City of Turlock relies on groundwater for its water supply, and after it’s treated, it’s discharged into the San Joaquin River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recycled water is the primary source of water available to help achieve groundwater sustainability,” Calvin Curtin, spokesman for the Turlock Irrigation District, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Silver Bullet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Recycled wastewater projects are currently used in Monterey and Sonoma Counties, where urban areas are close to farm fields. But much of the Central Valley is far from large urban areas, and moving wastewater long distances quickly becomes cost-prohibitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the single silver bullet solution for agriculture,” Cooley says. “Agriculture is going to have to do a lot of things to adapt to a future of less water availability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Del Puerto Water District, farmers see water recycling as a way to survive that future. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason is right outside her office window. “This field across the street is about 350 acres,” Hansen says, looking out at bare ground. “This land would typically be farmed in, probably, tomatoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quarter of the district’s 45,000 acres are fallowed this year, but half of the district is planted in permanent crops, like almonds, that require water every year to stay alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Crazy’ wouldn’t adequately describe what we’re going through here,” Hansen says. “Having zero water available, we’ve been in survival and crisis mode for, literally, 24 months now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77772\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto.jpg\" alt=\"A quarter of farm fields in the Del Puerto Water District are fallowed this year.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-400x229.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-1440x825.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-1180x676.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/DelPuerto-960x550.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A quarter of farm fields in the Del Puerto Water District are fallowed this year. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hansen’s district relies entirely on water from federal reservoirs in the state, through the Central Valley Project. But with record-low snowpack during the drought, that supply has been cut off completely for two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district doesn’t have water rights to local rivers, and lacks groundwater to pump, as many other agricultural areas have turned to doing this year. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/06/23/some-california-farmers-fallow-fields-others-sell-water-for-big-profits/\">Buying water\u003c/a> on the open market has been Hansen’s only option, but prices have gone through the roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drought-Proof Supply\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Even during the drought, around 240,000 Modesto residents produce a steady stream of water — in the form of sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Water is water,” says Will Wong, engineering division manager for the city of Modesto. “As long as it’s wet, it’s water and it’s valuable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s wastewater treatment plant is undergoing a $150 million upgrade to meet new water quality requirements. Currently, most of its wastewater is discharged into the San Joaquin River, and to protect the river, the city is being required to meet higher, “tertiary,” standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77773\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77773\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3.jpg\" alt=\"New filtering equipment is installed at the Modesto wastewater treament plant, part of a $150 million upgrade.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-400x250.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-1440x900.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-1180x738.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wastewater3-960x600.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New filtering equipment is being installed at the Modesto wastewater treatment plant, part of a $150 million upgrade. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The nice thing is that we have technology on our side here,” Wong says, “to take water that has some solids and whatnot, and essentially strip everything away and bring back pure water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>New equipment will filter and disinfect the wastewater with ultraviolet light. It won’t be drinking water quality, but, according to state standards, it’ll be clean enough to use on crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In what’s called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nvr-recycledwater.org/\">North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program\u003c/a>, the Del Puerto Water District would construct a six-mile, $100 million pipeline to carry the wastewater from the city to the Delta Mendota Canal. From there, it would go to the district’s farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really, really, really, truly hope that we can bring it across the line because it will be a model for others,” Hansen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water would be expensive for farmers, four to five times normal prices, but Hansen says that’s the cost of reliability. Growers like Jim Jasper are more than willing to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When something like this comes up, you don’t have to think about it twice,” says Jasper, who owns Stewart & Jasper Orchards.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“There’s absolutely more potential for recycled water use in California.”\u003ccite>Heather Cooley, Pacific Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp> “Most farmers are internal optimists and I like to be optimistic,” Jasper says, “but without something like this, the future for my son and grandson and family — we’re into this third generation — I don’t know if we can keep our business going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water would meet about one-third of the water district’s “hardened” demand, or the minimal supply it can get by on. The cities of Turlock and Ceres are also looking at joining the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Recycling on the Rise\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Other agricultural areas are taking notice, as they face their own drought shortfalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s absolutely more potential for recycled water use in California,” says Heather Cooley of the Pacific Institute, a non-profit water think tank in Oakland. According to her \u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/publication/ca-water-supply-solutions/\">analysis\u003c/a>, California could be using two to three times more recycled water for many purposes, including urban landscape and golf course irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recycling urban wastewater in coastal cities would have added benefits, she says. When wastewater is discharged into the ocean, it creates pollution problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>But in inland areas, treated wastewater is usually released into rivers, so removing that source of water from the river by recycling it could impact the river itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand where that water would have gone,” Cooley says. “Is it providing important environmental flows? Is it providing water to a downstream community such that if you’re recycling it, there’s no longer water for that community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Challenges From Other Farmers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Two agricultural water districts are protesting the North Valley Regional Recycled Water Program, saying it could harm the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Westlands Water District, the largest irrigation district in the country, is challenging the project for its possible effects on the San Joaquin River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is used so heavily by the region that it \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/02/24/california-drought-one-more-setback-for-river-that-runs-dry/\">runs completely dry\u003c/a> in some years. As a result, minimal standards have been put in place to ensure enough water is flowing to protect water quality and the endangered salmon that use the river. When those standards aren’t met, water pumping to local irrigation districts must be slowed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wastewater from Modesto and Turlock makes up only a tiny fraction of the overall flow of the San Joaquin River, but Westlands would rather see it go into the river, instead of being recycled, to help meet water quality standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77876\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77876\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6.jpg\" alt=\"A six-mile pipeline would connect Modesto's wastewater treament plant to a canal that reaches Del Puerto Water District's farms.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1100\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-400x229.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-1440x825.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-1180x676.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/wasterwater6-960x550.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A six-mile pipeline would connect Modesto’s wastewater treament plant to a canal that reaches Del Puerto Water District’s farms. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In terms of San Joaquin River flow, we are at a point where every acre-foot is important,” Tom Birmingham, General Manager of Westlands Water District, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials with the Turlock Irrigation District say they’d rather see the wastewater used to replenish local groundwater, and to combat overpumping in the area. The City of Turlock relies on groundwater for its water supply, and after it’s treated, it’s discharged into the San Joaquin River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Recycled water is the primary source of water available to help achieve groundwater sustainability,” Calvin Curtin, spokesman for the Turlock Irrigation District, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Silver Bullet\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Recycled wastewater projects are currently used in Monterey and Sonoma Counties, where urban areas are close to farm fields. But much of the Central Valley is far from large urban areas, and moving wastewater long distances quickly becomes cost-prohibitive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not the single silver bullet solution for agriculture,” Cooley says. “Agriculture is going to have to do a lot of things to adapt to a future of less water availability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>You think your water cutbacks are tough? Try farming without irrigation, relying only on rainwater. Actually, lots of crops are dry-farmed across the state. Wheat and grapes are common, and there are tomatoes on the Central Coast, squash in Humboldt and potatoes in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jutta Thoerner dry-farms walnuts outside Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County, and she’s an outspoken advocate of the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoerner and her partner, Cynthia Douglas, own \u003ca href=\"http://mmorganics.com/\">Manzanita Manor Organics\u003c/a>. They have solar panels running their coolers and sheep grazing their vineyards. At their walnut orchard, Thoerner gets a tractor out only twice a year. Mostly, she uses horses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212163239″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Thoerner sits in a wagon, gently but firmly directing two horses named Sonny and Lily. They’re pulling a large log behind the wagon to smooth out the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10576984\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10576984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jutta Thoerner and her horses, Lily and Sonny, drag a log to flatten dirt, which helps to retain moisture in the soil underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jutta Thoerner and her horses, Lily and Sonny, drag a log to flatten dirt, which helps to retain moisture in the soil underneath. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want to get this as smooth and as flat as we possibly can,” says Thoerner. “No big clumps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process will help keep moisture underground, and make harvesting easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, we want it like glass,” she says. “It’s a little difficult on these hills, but we try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she unhooks the horses, she explains that it’s all part of her process of dry farming, using no irrigation ever, on her trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that means is whatever rain comes down from the sky is the water that they’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘When you let them do their own thing … it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.’\u003ccite>Mike Cirone, on dry-farming apples\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>People have farmed this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forty or 50 years ago we were all dry-farming here in the California hills,” says Thoerner. “Everybody dry-farmed almonds and walnuts and grapes and some fruit trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before irrigation came in and people planted crops more densely on all types of soil. Thoerner says dry farming’s a good fit for coastal or foggy areas, less so for huge operations in sandy soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” she says, “If farmers have the right soil and the right conditions, it can be done on other properties. And who knows? Maybe this drought will make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10577120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg\" alt=\"Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don't compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-400x407.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1440x1466.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1180x1201.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-960x977.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don’t compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dry farming’s not about crossing your fingers and hoping for rain. Thoerner keeps her trees spaced far apart so they don’t compete for water. She monitors the weather carefully, trying to estimate the ideal time to cultivates the soil. Then she creates a dust mulch, a kind of seal, like she was doing with her horses and that log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While workers trim trees by hand, Thoerner explains that she has to graft two kinds of walnuts together to get the best results. The variety on the top — which grows a great-tasting walnut — is grafted onto a different, heartier stock, whose roots are great at finding water underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fantastic as a dry-farm root stock. They go to China, those roots,” she jokes. “They go so, so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These last few dry years, Thoerner and workers protect grafted branches by wrapping them in cages of chicken wire covered in shade cloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked ridiculous but it worked,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought definitely makes dry farming harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, with the way the weather has been, my production of walnuts has been going down steadily every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoerner and I stand underneath a tree where she looks for examples of doubles, sets of two walnuts in clusters, which can mean a better yield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every farmer likes to see doubles. But we really like to see triplets.” When I spot one, she says, excitedly, “Lisa found a triplet! That’s cool. I have not seen triplets in a few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery size=\"large\" type=\"square\" ids=\"10577264,10577196,10577127\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that find, I can see the orchard is suffering. Some trees have dead branches, and the walnuts, which are always smaller than ones from irrigated orchards, are really tiny this year. Many are just a little bigger than my thumb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These small nuts taste sweet and buttery. But lately, Thoerner says, tree breeders have focused most on developing varieties that produce big walnuts that crack easily, and fall out in perfect halves. That’s a silly standard, she says, when people are just going to chop them up into salads and cookies anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever happened to taste, people?” she asks, incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 miles west, farmer Mike Cirone says his farmers market customers are becoming connoisseurs of his small, sweet, dry-farmed fruit, clamoring over his dry-farmed apricots. Same goes for the 60 varieties of apples he farms without irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pump ’em all up, they tend to all taste the same,” he says. “When you let them do their own thing, then it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577178\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10577178 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-400x399.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-1180x1177.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-960x958.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cirone’s been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. Digging his boot heel into dry topsoil and revealing moisture underneath, Cirone explains that he made it through a drought in the ‘80s pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference was, the ’80s drought, it was cool,” he says. “This drought is warm. This drought feels like we’re living in Palm Springs in the middle of winter. To me, that is the most unsettling notion. That signifies real climate change to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jutta Thoerner is concerned, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the drought continues and the global warming continues, I don’t want people to stop farming,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes that the profits aren’t as big in dry farming, but she hopes some small growers will consider converting their irrigated orchards, or planting new ones for dry farming, rather than giving up. She’s most hopeful that young farmers will hear this message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are just a few years out of school. All they know is the drought,” she says. “The new generation that is not afraid to try new things, I want to tell them: ‘Just dry farm. You absolutely can make a living if you work your behind off.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her advice? Just find a piece of land with good soil and do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece is part of the series \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways\u003c/a>. Stories in the series that address food and climate change are funded by a grant from \u003ca href=\"http://invokingthepause.org/\">Invoking the Pause\u003c/a>. Lisa Morehouse produced this story while at a residency at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mesarefuge.org/\">Mesa Refuge\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>You think your water cutbacks are tough? Try farming without irrigation, relying only on rainwater. Actually, lots of crops are dry-farmed across the state. Wheat and grapes are common, and there are tomatoes on the Central Coast, squash in Humboldt and potatoes in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jutta Thoerner dry-farms walnuts outside Paso Robles in San Luis Obispo County, and she’s an outspoken advocate of the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoerner and her partner, Cynthia Douglas, own \u003ca href=\"http://mmorganics.com/\">Manzanita Manor Organics\u003c/a>. They have solar panels running their coolers and sheep grazing their vineyards. At their walnut orchard, Thoerner gets a tractor out only twice a year. Mostly, she uses horses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212163239″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/212163239″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Thoerner sits in a wagon, gently but firmly directing two horses named Sonny and Lily. They’re pulling a large log behind the wagon to smooth out the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10576984\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10576984\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Jutta Thoerner and her horses, Lily and Sonny, drag a log to flatten dirt, which helps to retain moisture in the soil underneath.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-400x225.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-1440x811.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin-960x541.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/LogDraggin.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jutta Thoerner and her horses, Lily and Sonny, drag a log to flatten dirt, which helps to retain moisture in the soil underneath. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want to get this as smooth and as flat as we possibly can,” says Thoerner. “No big clumps.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This process will help keep moisture underground, and make harvesting easier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ideally, we want it like glass,” she says. “It’s a little difficult on these hills, but we try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As she unhooks the horses, she explains that it’s all part of her process of dry farming, using no irrigation ever, on her trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What that means is whatever rain comes down from the sky is the water that they’re getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘When you let them do their own thing … it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.’\u003ccite>Mike Cirone, on dry-farming apples\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>People have farmed this way for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forty or 50 years ago we were all dry-farming here in the California hills,” says Thoerner. “Everybody dry-farmed almonds and walnuts and grapes and some fruit trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was before irrigation came in and people planted crops more densely on all types of soil. Thoerner says dry farming’s a good fit for coastal or foggy areas, less so for huge operations in sandy soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But,” she says, “If farmers have the right soil and the right conditions, it can be done on other properties. And who knows? Maybe this drought will make that happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10577120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg\" alt=\"Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don't compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste.\" width=\"800\" height=\"814\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-800x814.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-400x407.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1440x1466.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-1180x1201.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-960x977.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/WalnutGraftSpacing.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thoerner spaces her trees far apart so they don’t compete for water, and grafts two different kinds of walnut together. The heartier, water-seeking root stock is different from the producer tree on top, which is chosen for other qualities like taste. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dry farming’s not about crossing your fingers and hoping for rain. Thoerner keeps her trees spaced far apart so they don’t compete for water. She monitors the weather carefully, trying to estimate the ideal time to cultivates the soil. Then she creates a dust mulch, a kind of seal, like she was doing with her horses and that log.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While workers trim trees by hand, Thoerner explains that she has to graft two kinds of walnuts together to get the best results. The variety on the top — which grows a great-tasting walnut — is grafted onto a different, heartier stock, whose roots are great at finding water underground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are fantastic as a dry-farm root stock. They go to China, those roots,” she jokes. “They go so, so deep.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These last few dry years, Thoerner and workers protect grafted branches by wrapping them in cages of chicken wire covered in shade cloth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It looked ridiculous but it worked,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought definitely makes dry farming harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, with the way the weather has been, my production of walnuts has been going down steadily every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thoerner and I stand underneath a tree where she looks for examples of doubles, sets of two walnuts in clusters, which can mean a better yield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every farmer likes to see doubles. But we really like to see triplets.” When I spot one, she says, excitedly, “Lisa found a triplet! That’s cool. I have not seen triplets in a few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite that find, I can see the orchard is suffering. Some trees have dead branches, and the walnuts, which are always smaller than ones from irrigated orchards, are really tiny this year. Many are just a little bigger than my thumb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These small nuts taste sweet and buttery. But lately, Thoerner says, tree breeders have focused most on developing varieties that produce big walnuts that crack easily, and fall out in perfect halves. That’s a silly standard, she says, when people are just going to chop them up into salads and cookies anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever happened to taste, people?” she asks, incredulously.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 miles west, farmer Mike Cirone says his farmers market customers are becoming connoisseurs of his small, sweet, dry-farmed fruit, clamoring over his dry-farmed apricots. Same goes for the 60 varieties of apples he farms without irrigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you pump ’em all up, they tend to all taste the same,” he says. “When you let them do their own thing, then it really accentuates the unique flavor of each variety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10577178\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10577178 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years.\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-800x798.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-400x399.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-1180x1177.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-960x958.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/06/MikeCirone.jpg 1290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Cirone has been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. \u003ccite>(Cynthia Wood/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cirone’s been successfully dry-farming for over 30 years. Digging his boot heel into dry topsoil and revealing moisture underneath, Cirone explains that he made it through a drought in the ‘80s pretty well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The difference was, the ’80s drought, it was cool,” he says. “This drought is warm. This drought feels like we’re living in Palm Springs in the middle of winter. To me, that is the most unsettling notion. That signifies real climate change to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jutta Thoerner is concerned, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the drought continues and the global warming continues, I don’t want people to stop farming,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She concedes that the profits aren’t as big in dry farming, but she hopes some small growers will consider converting their irrigated orchards, or planting new ones for dry farming, rather than giving up. She’s most hopeful that young farmers will hear this message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of them are just a few years out of school. All they know is the drought,” she says. “The new generation that is not afraid to try new things, I want to tell them: ‘Just dry farm. You absolutely can make a living if you work your behind off.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her advice? Just find a piece of land with good soil and do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>State water managers have ordered the city of San Francisco to stop taking water from the Tuolumne River, restricting some of the city’s senior water rights. The orders are part of a larger effort by the state to limit water use from thousands of water rights holders, in order to manage dwindling supplies during the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s an historic moment for San Francisco, whose \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/05/11/how-californias-water-rights-make-it-tough-to-manage-drought/\">early water rights \u003c/a>and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/03/02/a-new-stronger-tunnel-to-bring-hetch-hetchy-water-to-bay-area/\">exclusive water system\u003c/a> has kept the city out of the water battles that have plagued most of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city says it may choose to fight the cuts and take legal action, as other senior water rights holders \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/06/15/court-battles-loom-over-challenge-to-state-water-rights/\">have recently done\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy system stretches more than 100 miles into the high Sierra Nevada, where pristine water is captured from the Tuolumne River in the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/century-old-battle-over-yosemites-second-valley-heats-up/\">built inside Yosemite National Park\u003c/a>. It serves \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/02/28/bay-area-do-you-know-where-your-water-comes-from/\">more than a million residents\u003c/a> in San Francisco and other water districts on the Peninsula and the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n“We’ll be taking the appropriate action to protect our water rights.”\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Steve Ritchie, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Hetch Hetchy water users aren’t expected to see any short term impacts, because the reservoir is fuller than most others in California, and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission can continue to draw on that water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our reservoir was as full as it was going to get already,” said Steve Ritchie, assistant general manager for water for the SFPUC. “We have plenty of water in storage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFPUC is still waiting to see the order from the State Water Resources Control Board to gauge the volume of water affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bigger issue for us is not the practical effect of curtailment, but the legality and precedence issues represented by it,” said Ritchie. “We may choose to file legal action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have already been filed by senior water rights holders who are\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/06/15/court-battles-loom-over-challenge-to-state-water-rights/\"> challenging the state water board’s authority\u003c/a> to cut their rights. Questions have been raised about whether the orders are actual “cease and desist” orders that must be followed, or are simply advisories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has several more water rights going back to 1901 that have not been curtailed, but could be in coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As supplies continue to decline through the summer, it is expected that more senior rights will be impacted by limited water availability,” the State Water Resources Control Board said in its release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be taking the appropriate action to protect our water rights,” Ritchie said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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But that's easier said than done ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/johnmyers/status/614134251777339392\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento), a physician and co-author of the bill, lauded its passage. \"Many of my colleagues have been under a lot of pressure because of the vociferousness of the opposition,\" he told KQED's April Dembosky. \"But when you look at the science and the facts, it's very clear this bill is what we need to do to make sure we protect our communities, protect our children from communicable disease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate over the bill became a major battleground in the ongoing conflict between those who urge everyone to get vaccinated -- a group that includes the scientific and medical community -- and those who think the decision should remain personal. Many in that category believe vaccines are responsible for the rising autism rate, a proposition that has never been proved but remains an article of faith among some in the anti-vaccine movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation gained steam in the wake of the measles outbreak that started in Disneyland last December and spread to at least half a dozen additional states. A total of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html\" target=\"_blank\">117 cases\u003c/a> were associated with the outbreak, which was declared over on April 17 of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ninety percent of parents in California vaccinate their children, but there are pockets in the state where the rate of opting out is high. Marin County, for example, has the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/08/21/marin-vaccinations/\" target=\"_blank\">highest rate of personal belief exemptions in the Bay Area\u003c/a> and among the highest in the state. 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"content": "\u003cp>Wildflowers are the newest addition to the growing list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_26496884/climate-change-threatens-many-bird-species\">California species\u003c/a> being hit hard by climate change. \u003ca href=\"http://m.pnas.org/content/early/2015/06/17/1502074112\">A new study\u003c/a> from UC Davis shows that drier winters are causing big declines in the state’s native wildflowers, the first direct evidence of how climate change is affecting California’s grasslands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is one of the world’s most special places for plant diversity,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Harrison/index.html\">Susan Harrison\u003c/a>, professor of environmental science and policy at UC Davis and the study’s lead author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this is very significant from the perspective of global biodiversity loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gradual loss of diversity could also affect pollinators and other animals that are associated with native wildflowers. Since bees and other insects rely on these flowers for nutrients, the decline in flower diversity means the animals will have to look elsewhere and travel farther for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 15 years, the authors of the study have been documenting plant species near \u003ca href=\"http://nrs.ucdavis.edu/McL/index.html\">McLaughlin Natural Reserve\u003c/a>, about 80 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time, the average number of plant species in each of their study plots has steadily declined. The declines were most pronounced in native wildflower species that can’t tolerate drought, like California Goldfield or Whitetip Clover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first I thought, you know, it’s just gotten grassier out here,” says Harrison, who has been working in the area since 2000. “But that was really an optical illusion. It’s just gotten less flowery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63209\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63209 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A wildflower grassland in McLaughlin Natural Reserve. The new studies suggest grasslands are losing wildflower diversity with climate change.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wildflower grassland in McLaughlin Natural Reserve. The new study suggests grasslands are losing wildflower diversity with climate change. \u003ccite>(UC Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In their analysis, the researchers considered other causes for the declines in diversity, such as grazing history, wildfires, \u003ca href=\"http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/9201/20140926/trees-threaten-growing-grasslands.htm\">invading trees and shrubs\u003c/a> and nonnative species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the only thing that really explained the patterns of diversity loss that they observed was climate change – specifically, the recent trend toward drier winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This result isn’t just an effect of the historic drought of the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the researchers removed the data from 2013 and 2014, they still saw the same pattern. Wildflower diversity was already declining before the drought hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most wildflower seeds germinate in the fall and grow slowly through the rainy winter months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But longer dry spells in the winter are desiccating the upper few inches of the soil. And warmer temperatures mean the scant rain that does fall will evaporate faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is bad news for the vulnerable wildflower seedlings, particularly those with thin leaves and shallow roots that can also dry out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68747\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-68747 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Lupine seedling shortly after germination. California hosts dozens of Lupine species, many of which live in the Sierras and their foothills. \u003ccite>(Ellen A./flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is relatively easy to measure declines in biodiversity, but much more difficult for scientists to pinpoint what aspect of the changing climate is causing the declines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCX206373414\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX206373414\">nowing that drought-intolerant species with thinner leaves were declining the most gives the researchers more confidence that drier winters are the culprit. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCX206373414\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX206373414\">“Adding these simple measurements of the leaves provides a lot of context as to what’s going on,” says David Ackerly, a plant scientist at UC Berkeley.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCX7474266\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX7474266\">Ackerly notes that climate models are uncertain about whether California will get wetter or drier in the future, but that the trends in this study are important indicators of how climate change can affect our native plant communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also illustrates how incredibly important these long-term studies are,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declines observed in this study may foreshadow diversity loss on a larger scale, particularly in areas that are expected to become warmer and drier in the future.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Wildflowers are the newest addition to the growing list of \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_26496884/climate-change-threatens-many-bird-species\">California species\u003c/a> being hit hard by climate change. \u003ca href=\"http://m.pnas.org/content/early/2015/06/17/1502074112\">A new study\u003c/a> from UC Davis shows that drier winters are causing big declines in the state’s native wildflowers, the first direct evidence of how climate change is affecting California’s grasslands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is one of the world’s most special places for plant diversity,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.des.ucdavis.edu/faculty/Harrison/index.html\">Susan Harrison\u003c/a>, professor of environmental science and policy at UC Davis and the study’s lead author.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So this is very significant from the perspective of global biodiversity loss.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gradual loss of diversity could also affect pollinators and other animals that are associated with native wildflowers. Since bees and other insects rely on these flowers for nutrients, the decline in flower diversity means the animals will have to look elsewhere and travel farther for food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last 15 years, the authors of the study have been documenting plant species near \u003ca href=\"http://nrs.ucdavis.edu/McL/index.html\">McLaughlin Natural Reserve\u003c/a>, about 80 miles north of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that time, the average number of plant species in each of their study plots has steadily declined. The declines were most pronounced in native wildflower species that can’t tolerate drought, like California Goldfield or Whitetip Clover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At first I thought, you know, it’s just gotten grassier out here,” says Harrison, who has been working in the area since 2000. “But that was really an optical illusion. It’s just gotten less flowery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63209\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63209 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"A wildflower grassland in McLaughlin Natural Reserve. The new studies suggest grasslands are losing wildflower diversity with climate change.\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/94003-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wildflower grassland in McLaughlin Natural Reserve. The new study suggests grasslands are losing wildflower diversity with climate change. \u003ccite>(UC Davis)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In their analysis, the researchers considered other causes for the declines in diversity, such as grazing history, wildfires, \u003ca href=\"http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/9201/20140926/trees-threaten-growing-grasslands.htm\">invading trees and shrubs\u003c/a> and nonnative species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the only thing that really explained the patterns of diversity loss that they observed was climate change – specifically, the recent trend toward drier winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This result isn’t just an effect of the historic drought of the last few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the researchers removed the data from 2013 and 2014, they still saw the same pattern. Wildflower diversity was already declining before the drought hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most wildflower seeds germinate in the fall and grow slowly through the rainy winter months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But longer dry spells in the winter are desiccating the upper few inches of the soil. And warmer temperatures mean the scant rain that does fall will evaporate faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is bad news for the vulnerable wildflower seedlings, particularly those with thin leaves and shallow roots that can also dry out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_68747\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-68747 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-400x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-400x400.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-1180x1180.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o-75x75.jpg 75w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/8319167234_07f6d2cb3f_o.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Lupine seedling shortly after germination. California hosts dozens of Lupine species, many of which live in the Sierras and their foothills. \u003ccite>(Ellen A./flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It is relatively easy to measure declines in biodiversity, but much more difficult for scientists to pinpoint what aspect of the changing climate is causing the declines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCX206373414\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX206373414\">nowing that drought-intolerant species with thinner leaves were declining the most gives the researchers more confidence that drier winters are the culprit. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCX206373414\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX206373414\">“Adding these simple measurements of the leaves provides a lot of context as to what’s going on,” says David Ackerly, a plant scientist at UC Berkeley.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"TextRun SCX7474266\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\">\u003cspan class=\"NormalTextRun SCX7474266\">Ackerly notes that climate models are uncertain about whether California will get wetter or drier in the future, but that the trends in this study are important indicators of how climate change can affect our native plant communities. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It also illustrates how incredibly important these long-term studies are,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declines observed in this study may foreshadow diversity loss on a larger scale, particularly in areas that are expected to become warmer and drier in the future.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2015/06/Coal_dust.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This post contains a \u003ca href=\"#correction\">correction.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nTrains heaped with coal pass through Richmond every week on their way to the city’s port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Parchester Village, a largely black and Latino neighborhood in northwestern Richmond, residents say coal dust blows off the open mounds, covering the grass and coating their screen doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This little neighborhood, nobody seems to care about,” says Paul Marquis, who moved to Parchester Village three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquis says in the last year, he’s seen more trains go by, and more black dust on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everywhere,” he says. “If your truck sits here for two, three days without moving you can write your name on the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58819\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58819\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Marquis wipes dust from his screen door. He says the dust blows off open mounds of coal as trains pass by. (Julie Small/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Marquis wipes dust from his screen door. He says the dust blows off open mounds of coal as trains pass by. (Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To demonstrate, Marquis pours a bucket of water down his screen door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It runs off dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That coal trains can lose particles and dust from open cars is no news to BNSF Railway, which has studied the issue. BNSF found that every uncovered coal car can lose between 500 pounds and one ton of coal in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s such a big safety problem on the tracks that BNSF requires coal companies in Montana and Wyoming that ship a lot of volume to cover their coal cars or spray them down to reduce the amount of dust lost in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no such rule applies to the coal cars traveling through Richmond because those shipments come from Colorado and Utah, states that don’t ship as much volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After passing Parchester Village, the coal cars trundle on to the privately owned Levin-Richmond Terminal on the waterfront, just south of Interstate 580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt says he doesn’t know how many coal trains pass through his town because federal law protects that information. But he describes it as “a big operation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-131296\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-800x399.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"356\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-800x399.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-400x200.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-1440x719.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-1400x699.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-1180x589.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-960x479.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map.jpg 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\">\u003c/a>Last year Richmond exported more than a million tons of coal and petcoke combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coal ships mostly to Japan and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petcoke comes in covered trucks from the nearby Phillips66 refinery to load onto boats headed for Australia and Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are worried,” says Butt. In the last year he says more residents have called his office to ask about the coal cars. “Fresh coal actually does have an odor to it,” he explains. “People can smell it and they see it and they don’t know what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the contents of stockpiles at the Levin-Richmond Terminal have raised concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Our staff saw the material dropping from the conveyor belt directly into the water, saw it falling off the piles into the water, and blowing off of the piles into the water.”\u003ccite>Sejal Choksi-Chugh\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Baykeeper\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company began exporting coal in 2013, but before that had exported petcoke for at least a couple of decades. Three years ago, an environmental group sued the Levin-Richmond Terminal over its handling of the petroleum by-product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will pile it up very high on the order of ten, twenty, thirty feet high on the dock,” says Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the non-profit observed problems at the terminal during a boating patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our staff saw the material dropping from the conveyor belt directly into the water, saw it falling off the piles into the water, and blowing off of the piles into the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baykeeper sued the Levin-Richmond Terminal for violating the Clean Water Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admitting no wrongdoing, the company settled the lawsuit in 2014. The terminal operator agreed to enclose the conveyor system it used to load the ships and to stop loading when the wind is too strong. Choksi-Chugh says the settlement has reduced water pollution problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing has been done, however, to address potential health problems related to airborne particles from the piles of coal and petcoke, or from the rail cars that transport the coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to be interviewed but in a written statement said it complies with all regulations and rules, and is considering a plan to enclose the stockpiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58822\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond Mayor Tom Butt says he'd like to know how much coal dust blows from open piles at the Levin-Richmond Terminal. Coal particles can break down into smaller particulate matter that's harmful to lungs, as they get kicked up over and over by cars and shoes. (Julie Small/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richmond Mayor Tom Butt says he’d like to know how much coal dust blows from open piles at the Levin-Richmond Terminal. Coal particles can break down into smaller particulate matter that’s harmful to lungs, as they get kicked up over and over by cars and shoes. (Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just outside the terminal fence, Mayor Butt bends down to scoop up a handful of black soot, “You can see there’s dust here. You can see the remnants of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Butt the question isn’t whether there’s dust escaping the Levin-Richmond terminal operations, it’s “How much, and how far away does it move, and what’s the size of the particulate matter?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt says that’s information he’s like to get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law regulates petcoke and coal dust — not as toxic substances — but as particulate matter. Because particulate matter tends to effect communities in close proximity to the source, it usually falls to state and local governments to enforce limits. That’s one reason efforts to diminish particulate matter from petcoke and coal vary widely in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air regulators for the San Francisco Bay have a \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Planning%20and%20Research/Rules%20and%20Regs/reg%2006/rg0601.ashx?la=en\">district rule\u003c/a> that prohibits visible dust from crossing property lines, but according to Eric Stevenson with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, it’s hard to enforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An inspector has to be there for a certain amount of time,” Stevenson explains, “see the dust particles crossing across the fence line, ensure that those particles are coming from that facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Usually what we do is attack emissions and things like that in a ‘What are we going to get the biggest bang for our buck?’ kind-of-way.”\u003ccite>Eric Stevenson\u003cbr>\nBay Area Air Quality Management District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Documents obtained by KQED under a public records request shows that BAAQMD’s inspections of the Levin-Richmond terminal found no visible dust coming off the property from 1997 to 2011. And then regular inspections stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the inspector assigned to the facility investigated a complaint of dust coming from the terminal, but found no supporting evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last three years, since Baykeeper sued and coal exports began, the air district has not inspected the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge for regulators is that the district lacks specific rules governing the storage or transport of petcoke and coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenson says regulators focus resources on the largest sources of emissions, like Chevron and other Bay Area refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually what we do is attack emissions and things like that in a ‘what are we going to get the biggest bang for our buck?’ kind-of-way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58918\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-800x369.png\" alt=\"Aerial view of Levin-Richmond Terminal, via Google. The dark ovals are piles of petcoke or coal waiting for export. \" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-800x369.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-400x184.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-960x443.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond.png 1089w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Levin-Richmond Terminal, via Google. The dark ovals are piles of petcoke or coal waiting for export.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Compared to Chevron, the Levin Richmond Terminal is small potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports, exports of petcoke and coal are a much bigger deal. Shipments of both started causing problems there over twenty years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a significant number of complaints from residents near the ports,” recalls Mohsen Nazemi with the South Coast Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazemi, who directs engineering and compliance, says the houses of people living near rail tracks and truck routes were blanketed with black soot, and so were the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought it was a health issue,” Nazemi says, “because some of the particles were fine particles and if you inhale fine particles it can cause respiratory and other types of health problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the l980’s the South Coast Air District adopted \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/rule-book/reg-xi/rule-1158.pdf?sfvrsn=4\">new rules\u003c/a> that require refineries and ports to enclose conveyor belts and stockpiles. Trains and trucks had to cover their loads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent\u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/air-quality/air-quality-monitoring-studies/rule-1158-follow-up-studies/rule-1158-follow-up-study-12-and-13-combo.pdf?sfvrsn=7\"> report \u003c/a>found no more significant problems with petroleum coke and coal dust in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Richmond City Council passed a\u003ca href=\"http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/cache/2/jlwxxvmweoumpgnmf50eigzo/43345206172015010728238.PDF\"> resolution\u003c/a> urging Bay Area air regulators to adopt the South Coast’s rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58913\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Sahagun with the California Nurses Association is surveying the health of residents in Richmond's Parchester Village. (Julie Small/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Sahagun with the California Nurses Association is surveying the health of residents in Richmond’s Parchester Village. (Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Air district staff is drafting regulations that would closely mirror Southern California’s rule but it could take a year or two for the board to adopt them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the Sierra Club and the California Nurses Association began surveying residents at Parchester Village for health impacts from coal dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day of the survey, nurse Maria Sahagun knocked on the door of a house where the back yard faces the train tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A six-year-old girl was doing cartwheels across the yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So agile!” exclaims Sahagun. Then, fighting back tears, observes, “She’s the perfect example of the children in this community that are affected by the coal dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sahagun, who worked at Doctors Medical Center until it closed in April, says the girl has asthma so severe medications sometimes don’t work and she has to go to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists plan to continue surveying Richmond residents through the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BAAQMD’s board is expected to begin parsing new regulations on coal and petcoke dust later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"correction\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Correction:\u003c/strong> This post originally stated that BNSF owns the train tracks that ship coal to Richmond. In fact, BNSF does not ship coal in California. Union Pacific “has on occasion hauled coal to the city of Richmond,” according to a company spokesman. The coal comes mainly from Colorado and Utah.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2015/06/Coal_dust.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Editor’s Note:\u003c/strong> This post contains a \u003ca href=\"#correction\">correction.\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nTrains heaped with coal pass through Richmond every week on their way to the city’s port.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Parchester Village, a largely black and Latino neighborhood in northwestern Richmond, residents say coal dust blows off the open mounds, covering the grass and coating their screen doors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This little neighborhood, nobody seems to care about,” says Paul Marquis, who moved to Parchester Village three years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marquis says in the last year, he’s seen more trains go by, and more black dust on his property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s everywhere,” he says. “If your truck sits here for two, three days without moving you can write your name on the front.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58819\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58819\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Marquis wipes dust from his screen door. He says the dust blows off open mounds of coal as trains pass by. (Julie Small/KQED)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5208-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Marquis wipes dust from his screen door. He says the dust blows off open mounds of coal as trains pass by. (Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To demonstrate, Marquis pours a bucket of water down his screen door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It runs off dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That coal trains can lose particles and dust from open cars is no news to BNSF Railway, which has studied the issue. BNSF found that every uncovered coal car can lose between 500 pounds and one ton of coal in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s such a big safety problem on the tracks that BNSF requires coal companies in Montana and Wyoming that ship a lot of volume to cover their coal cars or spray them down to reduce the amount of dust lost in transit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no such rule applies to the coal cars traveling through Richmond because those shipments come from Colorado and Utah, states that don’t ship as much volume.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After passing Parchester Village, the coal cars trundle on to the privately owned Levin-Richmond Terminal on the waterfront, just south of Interstate 580.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Mayor Tom Butt says he doesn’t know how many coal trains pass through his town because federal law protects that information. But he describes it as “a big operation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-131296\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-800x399.jpg\" alt=\"Print\" width=\"356\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-800x399.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-400x200.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-1440x719.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-1400x699.jpg 1400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-1180x589.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map-960x479.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Coal-Dust-Map.jpg 1915w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\">\u003c/a>Last year Richmond exported more than a million tons of coal and petcoke combined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coal ships mostly to Japan and Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petcoke comes in covered trucks from the nearby Phillips66 refinery to load onto boats headed for Australia and Europe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are worried,” says Butt. In the last year he says more residents have called his office to ask about the coal cars. “Fresh coal actually does have an odor to it,” he explains. “People can smell it and they see it and they don’t know what it is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time the contents of stockpiles at the Levin-Richmond Terminal have raised concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">“Our staff saw the material dropping from the conveyor belt directly into the water, saw it falling off the piles into the water, and blowing off of the piles into the water.”\u003ccite>Sejal Choksi-Chugh\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Baykeeper\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The company began exporting coal in 2013, but before that had exported petcoke for at least a couple of decades. Three years ago, an environmental group sued the Levin-Richmond Terminal over its handling of the petroleum by-product.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will pile it up very high on the order of ten, twenty, thirty feet high on the dock,” says Sejal Choksi-Chugh, executive director of San Francisco Baykeeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at the non-profit observed problems at the terminal during a boating patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our staff saw the material dropping from the conveyor belt directly into the water, saw it falling off the piles into the water, and blowing off of the piles into the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baykeeper sued the Levin-Richmond Terminal for violating the Clean Water Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Admitting no wrongdoing, the company settled the lawsuit in 2014. The terminal operator agreed to enclose the conveyor system it used to load the ships and to stop loading when the wind is too strong. Choksi-Chugh says the settlement has reduced water pollution problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nothing has been done, however, to address potential health problems related to airborne particles from the piles of coal and petcoke, or from the rail cars that transport the coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company declined to be interviewed but in a written statement said it complies with all regulations and rules, and is considering a plan to enclose the stockpiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58822\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-58822\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond Mayor Tom Butt says he'd like to know how much coal dust blows from open piles at the Levin-Richmond Terminal. Coal particles can break down into smaller particulate matter that's harmful to lungs, as they get kicked up over and over by cars and shoes. (Julie Small/KQED)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5370-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richmond Mayor Tom Butt says he’d like to know how much coal dust blows from open piles at the Levin-Richmond Terminal. Coal particles can break down into smaller particulate matter that’s harmful to lungs, as they get kicked up over and over by cars and shoes. (Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just outside the terminal fence, Mayor Butt bends down to scoop up a handful of black soot, “You can see there’s dust here. You can see the remnants of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Butt the question isn’t whether there’s dust escaping the Levin-Richmond terminal operations, it’s “How much, and how far away does it move, and what’s the size of the particulate matter?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butt says that’s information he’s like to get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal law regulates petcoke and coal dust — not as toxic substances — but as particulate matter. Because particulate matter tends to effect communities in close proximity to the source, it usually falls to state and local governments to enforce limits. That’s one reason efforts to diminish particulate matter from petcoke and coal vary widely in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Air regulators for the San Francisco Bay have a \u003ca href=\"http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/Files/Planning%20and%20Research/Rules%20and%20Regs/reg%2006/rg0601.ashx?la=en\">district rule\u003c/a> that prohibits visible dust from crossing property lines, but according to Eric Stevenson with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, it’s hard to enforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An inspector has to be there for a certain amount of time,” Stevenson explains, “see the dust particles crossing across the fence line, ensure that those particles are coming from that facility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“Usually what we do is attack emissions and things like that in a ‘What are we going to get the biggest bang for our buck?’ kind-of-way.”\u003ccite>Eric Stevenson\u003cbr>\nBay Area Air Quality Management District\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Documents obtained by KQED under a public records request shows that BAAQMD’s inspections of the Levin-Richmond terminal found no visible dust coming off the property from 1997 to 2011. And then regular inspections stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the inspector assigned to the facility investigated a complaint of dust coming from the terminal, but found no supporting evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last three years, since Baykeeper sued and coal exports began, the air district has not inspected the property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the challenge for regulators is that the district lacks specific rules governing the storage or transport of petcoke and coal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stevenson says regulators focus resources on the largest sources of emissions, like Chevron and other Bay Area refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Usually what we do is attack emissions and things like that in a ‘what are we going to get the biggest bang for our buck?’ kind-of-way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-58918\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-800x369.png\" alt=\"Aerial view of Levin-Richmond Terminal, via Google. The dark ovals are piles of petcoke or coal waiting for export. \" width=\"800\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-800x369.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-400x184.png 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond-960x443.png 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Ariel-view-of-Levin-Richmond.png 1089w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aerial view of Levin-Richmond Terminal, via Google. The dark ovals are piles of petcoke or coal waiting for export.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Compared to Chevron, the Levin Richmond Terminal is small potatoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports, exports of petcoke and coal are a much bigger deal. Shipments of both started causing problems there over twenty years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a significant number of complaints from residents near the ports,” recalls Mohsen Nazemi with the South Coast Air Quality Management District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nazemi, who directs engineering and compliance, says the houses of people living near rail tracks and truck routes were blanketed with black soot, and so were the schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought it was a health issue,” Nazemi says, “because some of the particles were fine particles and if you inhale fine particles it can cause respiratory and other types of health problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the l980’s the South Coast Air District adopted \u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/rule-book/reg-xi/rule-1158.pdf?sfvrsn=4\">new rules\u003c/a> that require refineries and ports to enclose conveyor belts and stockpiles. Trains and trucks had to cover their loads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent\u003ca href=\"http://www.aqmd.gov/docs/default-source/air-quality/air-quality-monitoring-studies/rule-1158-follow-up-studies/rule-1158-follow-up-study-12-and-13-combo.pdf?sfvrsn=7\"> report \u003c/a>found no more significant problems with petroleum coke and coal dust in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the Richmond City Council passed a\u003ca href=\"http://sireweb.ci.richmond.ca.us/sirepub/cache/2/jlwxxvmweoumpgnmf50eigzo/43345206172015010728238.PDF\"> resolution\u003c/a> urging Bay Area air regulators to adopt the South Coast’s rule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_58913\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-58913\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_5217-1440x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Sahagun with the California Nurses Association is surveying the health of residents in Richmond's Parchester Village. 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(Julie Small/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Air district staff is drafting regulations that would closely mirror Southern California’s rule but it could take a year or two for the board to adopt them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, the Sierra Club and the California Nurses Association began surveying residents at Parchester Village for health impacts from coal dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the first day of the survey, nurse Maria Sahagun knocked on the door of a house where the back yard faces the train tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A six-year-old girl was doing cartwheels across the yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So agile!” exclaims Sahagun. Then, fighting back tears, observes, “She’s the perfect example of the children in this community that are affected by the coal dust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sahagun, who worked at Doctors Medical Center until it closed in April, says the girl has asthma so severe medications sometimes don’t work and she has to go to the emergency room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Activists plan to continue surveying Richmond residents through the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The BAAQMD’s board is expected to begin parsing new regulations on coal and petcoke dust later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A 360,000-acre patchwork of federal lands north of the Bay Area may yet become California’s next national monument, but it will happen without a major component — or so it seems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How Lake Berryessa came to be removed from the proposed \u003ca href=\"http://berryessasnowmountain.org/\">Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument\u003c/a> remains a mystery even to the most keen observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t know for sure,” says Bob Schneider, senior policy director at Tuleyome, a Woodland-based conservation group that’s been pushing for the monument for at least seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Representative Mike Thompson (D-St. Helena) has said only that Thompson made the call himself before reintroducing his bid to create the monument in January. Supporters have been pursuing a “dual track” to monument status, seeking both a presidential designation and congressional action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Thompson’s latest version of the bill, which remains stalled in committee, is murky on the status of the the 20,000-acre lake, currently managed by the federal Bureau of Reclamation. The only clue is a \u003ca href=\"http://berryessasnowmountain.org/pdf/Berryessa%20Snow%20Mtn%20National%20Monument%20Map%20-%20Official%20-%20Feb.%202015.pdf\">revised map of the proposed monument\u003c/a>, that excludes Berryessa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t actually say anything in writing about what is included,” says Peter Kilkus, whose web-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakeberryessanews.com/\">Lake Berryessa News\u003c/a> has been a voice for opposition to the monument. “We have to depend on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60628\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60628\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Congressman Mike Thompson assured boaters that they would still be able to use Lake Berryessa as they have been -- but ultimately removed the lake from the plan, anyway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Mike Thompson assured boaters that they would still be able to use Lake Berryessa as they have been — but ultimately removed the lake from the proposed national monument. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerned about potential new restrictions on recreational use of the lake, opponents of the monument designation have long argued that \u003ca title=\"USBOR - Berryessa\" href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/berryessa/\">Lake Berryessa\u003c/a> lacks the national significance required for inclusion under the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_Act\">Antiquities Act\u003c/a>, as it was created by \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Monticello Dam\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Dam\">damming Putah Creek\u003c/a> in the 1950s. In an interview with KQED, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell cited the “man-made lake” as a possible issue after she \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/future-of-berryessa-snow-mountain-lands-in-limbo/\">toured the area\u003c/a> in December. Jewell has not made public what recommendations she may have made to President Obama regarding the lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Changing Footprint\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as the lake has vanished from the proposed monument, other lands not in the previous proposal have been added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map.jpeg\" alt=\"Berryessa_map\" width=\"693\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map.jpeg 693w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map-400x591.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lake is out,” says Schneider, “but all of \u003ca href=\"http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/wildView?WID=559\">Snow Mountain Wilderness\u003c/a> is in now, including the areas in Glenn and Colusa Counties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider says Berryessa Peak is still included, so the name of the proposed monument still makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the changes taken together increase slightly the total acreage of the tract and would still make it California’s largest national monument, edging out the recently created \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.fed.us/visit/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument\">San Gabriel Mountains National Monument\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the would-be monument’s north-south orientation and rising elevation makes it an ideal migration corridor for plants and animals forced to move by the warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent stroll down the main street of Winters, the closest town of any size to the south end of Lake Berryessa, it was a challenge to find anyone who was familiar with the monument proposal, let alone those with strong opinions about what lands should be included. One local resident deferred to her elementary school-age daughter, whose class had written letters of support to President Obama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile official support continues to build. The California legislature added its collective voice to the chorus in April, passing a resolution authored by Napa Democrat Bill Dodd calling on the president to designate Berryessa-Snow Mountain as a national monument using his executive authority. The Brown administration was already on record approving. Various local governments have passed similar resolutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even Eldridge Moores, a UC Davis geologist and one of the deans of plate tectonics science, appeared at a Sacramento hearing to extoll the area’s unique attributes. Moores says the region amounts to a real-world museum exhibit, detailing the slow-motion tectonic collision that created the coast ranges, and for that matter, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Only a few places on the planet illustrate the scientific process as clearly as does the Berryessa region,” Moores told lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the San Gabriels designation last year, Obama has created \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/19/fact-sheet-launching-every-kid-park-initiative-and-designating-new-natio\">three more national monuments\u003c/a>, in Illinois, Colorado and Hawaii. Berryessa remains in limbo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t actually say anything in writing about what is included,” says Peter Kilkus, whose web-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.lakeberryessanews.com/\">Lake Berryessa News\u003c/a> has been a voice for opposition to the monument. “We have to depend on the map.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_60628\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-60628\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Congressman Mike Thompson assured boaters that they would still be able to use Lake Berryessa as they have been -- but ultimately removed the lake from the plan, anyway.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/IMG_3007-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Congressman Mike Thompson assured boaters that they would still be able to use Lake Berryessa as they have been — but ultimately removed the lake from the proposed national monument. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Concerned about potential new restrictions on recreational use of the lake, opponents of the monument designation have long argued that \u003ca title=\"USBOR - Berryessa\" href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/mp/ccao/berryessa/\">Lake Berryessa\u003c/a> lacks the national significance required for inclusion under the \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_Act\">Antiquities Act\u003c/a>, as it was created by \u003ca title=\"Wiki - Monticello Dam\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monticello_Dam\">damming Putah Creek\u003c/a> in the 1950s. In an interview with KQED, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell cited the “man-made lake” as a possible issue after she \u003ca title=\"Q-Sci - post\" href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/audio/future-of-berryessa-snow-mountain-lands-in-limbo/\">toured the area\u003c/a> in December. Jewell has not made public what recommendations she may have made to President Obama regarding the lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Changing Footprint\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as the lake has vanished from the proposed monument, other lands not in the previous proposal have been added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56839\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map.jpeg\" alt=\"Berryessa_map\" width=\"693\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map.jpeg 693w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/06/Berryessa_map-400x591.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lake is out,” says Schneider, “but all of \u003ca href=\"http://www.wilderness.net/NWPS/wildView?WID=559\">Snow Mountain Wilderness\u003c/a> is in now, including the areas in Glenn and Colusa Counties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider says Berryessa Peak is still included, so the name of the proposed monument still makes sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the changes taken together increase slightly the total acreage of the tract and would still make it California’s largest national monument, edging out the recently created \u003ca href=\"http://www.fs.fed.us/visit/san-gabriel-mountains-national-monument\">San Gabriel Mountains National Monument\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say the would-be monument’s north-south orientation and rising elevation makes it an ideal migration corridor for plants and animals forced to move by the warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent stroll down the main street of Winters, the closest town of any size to the south end of Lake Berryessa, it was a challenge to find anyone who was familiar with the monument proposal, let alone those with strong opinions about what lands should be included. 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