California Resurrects Peripheral Canal Proposal
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By Samantha Young, Associated Press  SACRAMENTO -- In 1980, as California was recovering from its longest drought since the Depression, state lawmakers thought they had found a solution to weather future water shortages.
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By Dania Akkad, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Neighbors of one of the last pieces of undeveloped land in the city of Monterey are concerned that the stretch of dense pine forest along Highway 1 may be replaced with a high-density development.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 12--While saying they would prefer negotiation to litigation, El Dorado Irrigation District board members Monday agreed to join with a coalition in a potential battle with the city of Sacramento over water rights.
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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The Salton Sea, once known as Californiaâs Riviera, is dying. Inside a new plan to save it.
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By Julia Glick, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Jun.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 1--If Monterey Bay water officials are looking for alternatives to ensuring a regional water supply, they might start by deciding just what the "region" is.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--It's not often that a pipeline project spawns an archaeological dig.
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By Scott Marshall, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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By PETER B. LORD  Any plans for restoring your local environment?   The Coastal Resources Management Council is seeking pre- proposals for habitat-restoration projects throughout the state.
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By Sandra Stokley, The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, Calif.  Dec.
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By Donna Littlejohn, Rick Orlov  and Kerry Cavanaugh STAFF WRITERS  A $117 million cleanup of Machado Lake and the Wilmington Drain in the Harbor Area was approved Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council as part of a sweeping package of citywide water quality improvement projects.
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By Ed Fletcher, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--Sacramento County supervisors voted Tuesday to move forward with a plan to protect habitat for endangered and threatened species in a huge swath of the county south of the American River.
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By Howard Yune, Appeal-Democrat, Marysville, Calif.  Sep. 24--State plans to remake Colusa County farmland as wetlands took another blow when a state appeals court upheld a 2004 decision blocking the takeover of the Traynham Ranch east of Arbuckle.
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By Ellyn Pak, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Feb. 6--The drilling of two holes in the Cleveland National Forest began  Monday to test if 646 millions gallons of water can be transported daily  through a tunnel between Riverside and Orange counties.
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Surfers who have been fighting a plan to build a toll road that could alter the iconic surf break at Lower Trestles, Calif., received some good news recently.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--The state Department of Water Resources is weighing backup plans in case water export pumps in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta remain idle more than 10 days, a prospect that looks increasingly likely.