While there’s not much to cheer about the drought, the folks at the Santa Clara Valley Water District do have one positive thing to say about the lack of rain. And it answers the question: What are ...

The Cambria Community Services District is supposed to maintain a certain amount of space between the surface of the water in the pond and the top of the brine pond, seen here, to keep brine from ...

The Coachella Valley Water District has clarified its plans for handling stormwater runoff that is expected throughout the region due to an incoming storm system. The water district will divert runoff ...

A West Valley man learned a very muddy lesson in suburban off-roading last Thursday. The Santa Clara Valley Water District is not pressing charges against a 20-year-old man for driving a four-wheel ...

Most gardeners have learned that a large percentage of residential water use occurs outdoors, mostly as a result of irrigating lawn grass and other plants. As a result, some have adopted water-saving ...

San Jose firefighters said on Wednesday said they found a body and a partially submerged van in a percolation pond. The man's body was found about 7:30 a.m. in the pond near Berryessa Road and Morrill ...

Despite the objections of a group of residents, Lake County commissioners Tuesday approved rezoning a site on Woodlea Road to allow Tavares to build an effluent disposal field. Tavares plans to build ...

The Forest Department has created new check dams and percolation ponds inside various reserve forests in the district with the long-term objective of recharging groundwater inside the reserve forests ...

In the last few weeks, a large area in the Guindy National Park has been cleared of vegetation with over 25 to 30 trees being chopped off apparently for constructing a percolation pond to protect the ...

At about 6:30 p.m. Monday, police received a missing-persons report from concerned friends and began searching percolation ponds near Blossom Hill Road and Sanchez Drive, San Jose police Sgt. Jason ...