Published in the June 6, 2026 edition. It’s been a few months since consultants presented the results of a draft groundwater modeling project to the Tri-Valley Groundwater Management District, beginning[…]
For environmentalists, the results of the Tri-Valley Groundwater Modeling Project were supposed to be a stick-it-to-’em watershed moment that would finally force a historically reluctant board to accept that pumping[…]
A few weeks ago, three dozen people gathered in the Chalfant Community Center to talk about groundwater, packing every seat and lining the walls. On the agenda: a discussion of a[…]
In any given year, 40% of the water that sustains California comes from the state’s groundwater. That’s the same water stored in the permeable rocks beneath our feet—aquifers. It’s the[…]
