WORK IN PROGRESS… Being a cephalopod columnist, Squid knows the value of getting work done in advance. But Squid also keeps Squid’s rough draf…
Say you want to install a new water meter on the Monterey Peninsula – no can do. Since 1995, the region’s water utility, California American W…
There are multiple water stories happening right now in the Monterey Peninsula, following parallel tracks.
After months of delay, the California Public Utilities Commission, the state’s regulator of private utilities, finally voted on Thursday, Aug.…
In 1987, the Carmel River Steelhead Association filed a complaint with the State Water Resources Control Board, arguing that utility company C…
Sara Rubin here, thinking about how easy it would’ve been from a journalistic perspective if our team at the Weekly could have simply scored a…
Outside of rare situations involving historic water rights, the State Water Board has prohibited California American Water from setting new wa…
July 1770. Just five weeks after establishing a mission in Monterey, Father Junipero Serra sends out a missive on the departing San Antonio, a…
By day, the derelict San Xavier Fish Reduction plant at 484 Cannery Row looks exactly like what it is: ruins of a bygone era when sardine fish…
Mark Twain reportedly said, “Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.” That latter part is all too true in Monterey County, where it ap…