Water-Related News

05.24.2012

CalPERS Looks at Job-Creating Infrastructure
PublicCEO.com
The nation's largest public pension fund, CalPERS, is holding a meeting in San Diego this week to discuss investments in California infrastructure, this one focusing on energy. Previous closed-door meetings with a wide range of interests (held in ...

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05.23.2012

Preview calendar: Dance, galleries and museums for May 24-30
North County Times
Encinitas Civic Center Art Gallery ---- "Bugs, Birds and Beasts of North County, San Diego," a solo nature photography exhibit by Mark A. Drawbridge, runs June 1-July 16; reception, 5 to 7 pm June 5; "Pine Needle Artistry: A Tribute to Beverley Roberts ...

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05.23.2012

California nuke trouble could prompt rule review
KOAM-TV
San Onofre, located on the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, has been shuttered for nearly four months while investigators try to determine why tubing that carries radioactive water in relatively new steam generators eroded at an unusual rate, ...

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05.23.2012

California nuke trouble could prompt rule review
WIS
San Onofre, located on the coast between Los Angeles and San Diego, has been shuttered for nearly four months while investigators try to determine why tubing that carries radioactive water in relatively new steam generators eroded at an unusual rate, ...

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05.23.2012

Huntington Beach desal project talk trips up on open meeting law
North County Times (blog)
Scheduled for May 15, the talk was to be given to the Municipal Water District of Orange County, a public water agency. The plant is proposed by Poseidon Resources, which is in the final stages of negotiations with the San Diego County Water Authority ...

05.23.2012

The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part One
San Diego Reader
By Jeff Smith, May 23, 2012 Joe Hill, songwriter and icon of labor, couldn't understand why the Industrial Workers of the World chose San Diego for a Free Speech fight in 1912. “One of those jerk-water towns of no industrial importance,” San Diego had ...

05.23.2012

San Diego Flood Insurance Rates Go Down - Again
Insurance News Net (press release)
Every five years FEMA conducts on-site inspections and interviews to verify the County's compliance. FEMA grades the County on categories ranging from managing storm water, to enforcing regulations, maintaining maps of storm water systems and ...

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05.23.2012

San Diego CityBEAT

San Diego County's new propaganda machine
San Diego CityBEAT
The county awarded the contract to Parallax Visual Communications in April through a non-competitive process. Earlier, Parallax had scored a web-development contract with the San Diego County Water Authority, and the county amended that contract to ...

05.23.2012

Blue Sky Ecological Reserve
San Diego Reader
The 700-acre reserve is managed by the California Department of Fish and Game, the City of Poway, and San Diego County Department of Parks and Recreation. Only a few minutes north of Poway and just off of I-15 on Espola Road, the reserve provides ...

05.23.2012

RECYCLED WATER GETTING ANOTHER LOOK
U-T San Diego
Expanding facilities to recycle about 100 million gallons of wastewater per day could create a major drought-proof water supply for San Diego, according to a new two-year study being reviewed today at City Hall. The report's authors — advised by ...

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