Water, energy, conservation, wildlife and environmental issues.
Several environmental groups asked San Francisco on Tuesday to reduce its diversion of Tuolumne River water.
They said chinook salmon and other wildlife suffer from the current operations, especially the river stretch in and near Modesto.
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Deputies have recovered the body of a 27-year-old man who was swimming at Woodward Reservoir on Sunday afternoon, the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies responded to the area of Mountain View Point at Woodward Reservoir for a swimmer who was seen struggling and in distress shortly before 2 p.m.
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FEDERAL AND STATE government officials journeyed to the western corner of Merced County earlier this month to announce a new project to place solar panels on the water in the Delta-Mendota Canal.
The project is part of a $19 million investment through President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act announced by the Department of the Interior to install panels over irrigation canals in California, Oregon and Utah, with the aims of decreasing evaporation of critical water supplies and advancing clean energy goals.
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This week marks the City of Turlock’s 17th annual Go Green Week, a campaign aimed at promoting environmental sustainability. Participating schools within the Turlock Unified School District have already begun touring local wastewater treatment and recycling facilities, participating in an art and recycling contest for children, and even planting new trees on their respective campuses.
“Students learn about the importance of conservation and pollution prevention strategies such as recycling, composting, water conservation and waste reduction habits,” the City of Turlock said in a release.
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A magnitude 2.7 earthquake shook Stanislaus County Saturday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.
It struck at around 10:22 a.m., the USGS said, around 3.5 miles north of the census-designated place Diablo Grande and just under 9 miles west of the city of Patterson.
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Merced, California, experienced a light magnitude 2.7 earthquake on Sunday, January 14, 2024, at 2:54 pm local time. The seismic event, which occurred 45 km (28 mi) away from the city, had a very shallow depth of 22.1 km (14 mi) and, interestingly, went unnoticed as no reports of shaking were filed.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed the earthquake, with the epicenter at 37.3863°N latitude and 119.9868°W longitude in Mariposa, California, United States. The quake was also near Mammoth Mountain, the nearest volcano, 89 km (55 mi) away.
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Stanislaus County’s main bus system would run on hydrogen under a plan that just got a $47.5 million boost.
That fuel would allow the Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority to meet a state mandate for zero emissions by 2040. The current buses, mostly diesel, pollute local air and contribute to global climate change.
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Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Office detectives are investigating a suspicious death in south Modesto.
At about 6:45 a.m., a person walking her dog reported that she found what appeared to be a dead person, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Luke Schwartz said.
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In a move that may soon be replicated elsewhere, the Gila River Indian Community recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put solar panels over a stretch of irrigation canal on its land south of Phoenix.
It will be the first project of its kind in the United States to actually break ground, according to the tribe’s press release.
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Recent wildfires in the Oregon and Northern California regions have caused smoke to drift south, prompting Campus Safety and Risk Management to issue a warning about the current local air quality.
“The University is currently monitoring the air quality due to smoke from regional wildfires in our area. The campus receives and monitors air quality information from a variety of different sources throughout the day,” the beginning of the warning stated.
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