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Remains of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Green Mountain snow sensor in the upper San Joaquin River watershed. The 2020 Creek Fire destroyed the sensor and weather station and the tower, although still upright, is unusable.
Wildfire and Impacts to Water

The impacts of California’s ongoing dry and warm years were seen this year with a historic wildfire season. Correspondingly, the risk of wildfire damage to water infrastructure is increasing, including risks of secondary impacts from burned area sediment entering waterbodies and affecting water treatment plant operations.

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Aerial view looking south along Old River in the center is Fay Island, part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California.
Q/A: Building the Tunnel, Part 1: Nothing Boring About Boring Technology

For the first episode in a special two-part Delta Conveyance Deep Dive series on tunnel construction, we invited two of the Delta Conveyance Project design team's leading consultants on tunnel design and engineering to talk about the state‑of‑the‑art technology that would be used to build the Delta Conveyance Project.

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Paul Gosselin, Deputy Director of SGMO
Q/A – Paul Gosselin, Deputy Director of Sustainable Groundwater Management

DWR conducted an interview with our newly appointed Deputy Director of Sustainable Groundwater Management Paul Gosselin. Paul is a long-time water industry professional in California who will now lead the Department’s SGMO Office in implementing the State’s historic Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA).

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