Creeks and springs at Point Reyes National Seashore haven't completely dried up but they're looking parched enough that park staff set up three large troughs last week to ensure tule elk herds get enough water to make it through the drought.
Marin County declared a drought emergency mid-May with the lowest rainfall during the last 16 months in more than 140 years recorded by the Marin Municipal Water District.
In the latest response to California’s expanding drought, the National Park Service has begun trucking in water for elk at Point Reyes National Seashore. The nearly 300 tule elk that roam the headlands of Tomales Point, and provide wildlife viewing for millions of visitors, usually rely on stock ponds and natural creeks, which are drying up after two years of extraordinarily little rain. Park officials worry that without supplemental water, the.
Marin County has less than a year of water supply in its reservoirs. That what the General Manager of the Marin Municipal Water District said yesterday. Ben
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By 06/09/2021
West Marin customers should vote no on North Marin Water District’s proposed water rate increase and urge the district to revisit its drought plan. The rate increase, which will be considered at a June 22 hearing, hinges on a structure that encourages excessive landscape use that draws salt into the lower wells. By failing to create conservation tiers that reflect a sustainable yield, the district is able to use salt intrusion as a false justification for rushing to build another well one whose potential impacts have not been adequately studied.
The drought plan discriminates against those already conserving and growing families by mandating a universal 25 percent reduction from 2013 levels that year being the last so-called normal year. Has your household size increased since 2013? If we have to go back eight years to find a “normal” year, how can that be normal? Drought is the new normal.