North Bay Business Journal

  • Frost-pond bill passes; regulators float frost-water rule

    September 12th, 2011

    The Legislature passed a bill by two North Coast state legislators that would streamline permitting of small irrigation ponds that could be tapped for frost prevention, rather than streams deemed habitat for protected fish. Meanwhile, state water regulators released the latest revision to a Russian River basin frost-water regulation more than three years in the making.

  • Supervisors move forward with revised frost-water ordinance

    December 8th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted 5-0 to proceed to a final vote at next week’s meeting on a draft frost-protection water use ordinance, despite warnings from several conservation groups today to slow down the process and make it more “transparent.”

  • Sonoma supervisors to consider reworked frost rules today

    December 7th, 2010

    SANTA ROSA — The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors this afternoon is set to consider reworked local rules for use of well and stream water for frost protection in parts of the Russian River Basin deemed key habitat for protected fish.

  • Study estimates impact of proposed frost rules to top $2B

    November 1st, 2010

    SONOMA AND MENDOCINO COUNTIES — The impact of proposed state rules controlling the use of Russian River basin water to protect winegrapes and other crops from frost damage could exceed $2.1 billion from lost business income, tax revenue, land values and 8,000-plus jobs in Sonoma and Mendocino counties, according to a new study by a Sonoma State University economist.

  • Divisions remain over direction of frost rules

    May 24th, 2010

    The recent confluence of conservation and farming interests that resolved a years-long delay in adoption of rules for use of North Coast water needed for protected fish also could direct the outcome of pending regulation of water used for protecting crops from frost damage.

  • Growers, regulators craft methods to manage frost water

    March 8th, 2010

    GEYSERVILLE — Winegrape growers that depend on water in the Russian River Basin to protect their vines from frost assert they have a better idea of how much water they’re using and how to limit such use, while wildlife regulators say they’re getting more precise information of water overuse and tools to curtail it.

  • Growers prepare for watershed moment at frost meeting

    November 16th, 2009

    SANTA ROSA – A coalition of farming trade groups and major winegrape growers in Mendocino and Sonoma counties plans to demonstrate the state water regulators at a meeting Wednesday that growers have made significant recent progress toward protecting fish while protecting their vines from frost, despite a new letter from federal fish wardens to the contrary.

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