Governor Gavin Newsom is calling on state water managers to divert and store as much water as they can from the upcoming atmospheric river through an executive order he signed on Friday.
The order directs agencies to capture water and send it to reservoirs and other storage areas in Northern California even if they haven’t adopted a flood control plan…
A coalition of environmental groups released a statement saying that the governor is taking a page from President Trump’s playbook.
Friends of the River, Restore the Delta, and San Francisco Baykeeper said Newsom’s plan, “Provides no justification for eviscerating environmental safeguards when reservoir storage levels are already high and the incoming storms promise to boost the Sierra snowpack substantially.”
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