Notes From Underground

 "Notes from Underground" contains news items, alerts, commentary, humor, rumor, gossip, etc., pertaining to groundwater in the Borrego Valley of California and matters related thereto.   The notes and the dates they were posted are listed below.  Just click on the title to go to the page.  Check back frequently for updates.

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Mediocracy:  Borrego's Default Form of Local Government/posted/10/20/08
Desert Area Initiative (DAI) - Again!/posted/10/07/08

Comments on BWD Manager’s Report of August 2008/posted/09/12/08
The Case for Saving the Aquifer vs. Importing Water/posted/08/28/08
How to Motivate Water Conservation/posted/07/26/08
Implementation of Tiered Rates:  Ready.  Fire! Aim./posted/06/27/08
Fallowing Ag Land Best Solution to Overdraft/posted/05/28/08
Tiered Rates:  Deja vu all over again/posted/04/24/08
Case Statement for a Meaningful Tiered Rate Structure by Joan Rosen/posted/04/20/08
BWD Gives Away the Store in Tiered Rates "Negotiations"/posted/04/19/08
Case for a Pump Tax in the Borrego Basin:  Challenge and Response/posted/04/12/08
Tiered Rates Proposal:  A Dissenting Opinion/posted/04/10/08
A Fair and Equitable Way to Finance Fixing the Aquifer/revised/03/30/08
Water and Borrego Springs:  An Essay by James Wallerstedt/posted/03/15/08
Tiered Water Rates: The 1% Solution/posted/03/12/08
Links/updated/03/07/08
BWD Board Cover Up/posted/03/06/08
The Precautionary Principle:  A Cautionary Tale/posted/02/14/08
Borrego Basin:  Case for State Control of Groundwater and Water Agencies in California/posted/01/07/08

Reuben Ellis and the Pinocchio Protruding Proboscis Problem/posted/01/04/08
Analysis of a Flim-Flam:  Coyote Creek Water Grab/posted/12/07/07
History of a Flim-Flam:  Coyote Creek Water Grab/posted/12/07/07
Coyote Creek Water Grab/posted/11/24/07
A Modest Proposal for Solving the World-Wide Water Crisis/posted/11/04/07
Water Wasted in Construction/posted/11/03/07
Interpretation of data from BWD Monitoring Wells 4 & 5/posted/10/08/07
LA Times Article (08/11/07) About Borrego's Water Shortage/posted/09/22/07
Smiley's Complaint/posted/09/20/07
More Bad News for Borrego/posted/08/01/07
Straight Talk On Tiered Rates/posted/07/09/07

A Perspective on Development in the Borrego Valley/posted/06/17/07
Water Factoids/posted/05/26/07
Red Flags Over Borrego/posted/05/24/07
Rudyville:  Urban Sprawl Comes to Borrego/posted/05/16/07
Conflicts of Interest Threaten the Borrego Valley/revised/050807
DAI Spells Disaster/posted/04/26/07
Borrego Springs:  A Worst Case Scenario/posted/04/03/07
Summary of California Conflict-of-Interest Laws/posted/03/13/07
BWD Board Set to Destroy Its Only Groundwater Management Accomplishment/posted/02/20/07
Save Water and $:  Fix Your Toilet/posted/01/31/07
Frankenstein in the Desert:  Rams Hill/Montesoro/posted/12/19/06
A Partial Bibliography of Sources:  Groundwater in the Borrego Valley/updated/11/25/06
Owens Valley South/posted/11/18/06
Ellis Farms Inc.'s Big Lie 1.1/posted /11/11/06
Election 2006:  Recap and Lament/posted/11/10/06/
Community Facilities District Informational Meeting on 9/27/06/posted/09/24/06
Gang of 3 Guts Groundwater Mitigation Policy/posted/09/24/06
Borrego's Two Impotent Water Agencies/posted/08/18/06
Ellis Farms Inc.'s Expansion/posted/ 06/11/06
BWD Groundwater Management Plan Update for FY 2007/posted 04/29/06
The Difficulty with Easy Solutions/posted 04/09/06
Tamarisk & Groundwater Depletion/posted 03/25/06
Conjunctive Use:  A Reality Check/posted 03/09/06

Denial Ain't Just a River; Oldies Ain't Just Tunes/posted 02/02/06
Engelke's Prescription:  Wrong Medicine for What Ails Borrego/ posted/ 12/01/05
Landscaping in the Sonoran Desert by Barnaby Davidson/posted/ 11/29/05

BWD Groundwater Mitigation Program Only Half Done/posted/11/20/05

BWD Board Must Reform Procedural Rules For Committees/updated/11/29/05

Governator vetoes California's Mega Water Bill/posted/11/02/05

Glitch in Implementing BWD Groundwater Mitigation Policy/Posted/10/25/05

Free-Water Surface Evaporation Rates In/Around The Anza-Borrego Desert/posted 10/19/05

Groundwater Mitigation Policy Amended/posted/10/13/05

Crisis Feared for Borrego Water Supply/posted/09/25/05

Fortiners Take First Step Toward Accurate Measure Of Agricultural Water Use/posted/09/23/05

A Primer for Water Utility Decision Makers/posted/09/20/05

A Modest Proposal for Reducing Ag Water Use/posted/09/20/05
Borrego’s Booming Real Estate Market:  Opportunity or Sucker-Bait/posted/08/30/05

SB 820 Summary /posted 08/30/05**

BWD Passes Groundwater Mitigation at 3:1 for New Development/posted /08/27/05

BWD Backpedals on Groundwater mitigation/posted 08/27/05**

SB 820:  California's Mega Water Bill Good for Borrego/posted 08/22/05
DPLU Policy Re Borrego Valley Groundwater Use/posted 07/01/05
3 Groundwater Use Mitigation Policies for Borrego:  Analysis & Recommendations/posted 02/25/05

Still More on Groundwater Mitigation/posted 06/19/05**

Example of mitigation at 3:1/posted 06/19/05

Demythologizing Groundwater Use mitigation/posted 06/19/05

Post-Mortem on BWD 2005 Annual Groundwater Meeting/posted03/18/05

Put an item on the BWD Boards's meeting agenda/posted/03/04/05**
Ag Census 2000/posted/02/23/05**
BWD Annual Groundwater Management Meeting  Agenda/posted 01/28/05**
The Borrego Water District Board From Bad To Worse/posted 01/19/05
Seley Ranch Installs World's Largest Solar-Powered Irrigation System/posted 01/08/05
DWR Advocates Sustainable Use As Solution To Overdraft/posted 12/26/04
The Great Wall of Borrego/posted/11/08/04
Urgent Need for Action by BWD to Prevent Depletion of the Aquifer (April 2004)/posted/03/22/08**

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