Public meeting on water

A Sonoma Valley Water Workshop is headed our way… As we know, California is in a drought cycle. The pressures on the community and ecology increase as things stay dry. Even if we get a “wet” winter, our water woes are not behind us. The drought has...

Why did the creeks start flowing again?

After the August 24 earthquake, centered in Napa, people all over the Valley began to report a strange phenomenon: Creeks that had been dry suddenly filled with water and flowed robustly, in the middle of dry season. Reports of this kind came in for Carriger Creek,...