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State allegedly ghosted Merced’s attempts to get permission to clear creeks for months before the floods

June 11, 2024

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Evidence is stacking up against the state in one of multiple lawsuits over last year’s devastating floods in Merced County. One of the most stunning new pieces of evidence is a string of 12 emails from Merced County staff that went ignored by the state for more than four months before last year’s floods. The…

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Valley agencies in a race against winter and a fast-approaching state deadline to repair flood damage

September 22, 2023

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

All across Tulare County, the race is on to repair flood-damaged infrastructure before an anticipated El Niño winter and an even more looming expiration of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order that relaxed permitting for levee work and debris clean up. The work has lagged, though, as creeks and rivers are still flowing or the ground…

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Webinar: How warring parties on the Putah Creek found detente

October 11, 2022

• by Lois Henry

The Kern River isn’t special. Rivers and streams throughout California are fought over with just as much passion and vehemence as the Kern River has seen from the 1880s to the present. But opposing parties on some of those rivers have found their way to compromise. The Putah Creek in northern California is one such…

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State allegedly ghosted Merced’s attempts to get permission to clear creeks for months before the floods

Valley agencies in a race against winter and a fast-approaching state deadline to repair flood damage

Webinar: How warring parties on the Putah Creek found detente

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