Nina Gordon-Kirsch spent more than a month walking from her home in Oakland to the headwaters of the Mokelumne River.
East Bay Municipal Utility District
Posted inNature
Hungry deer, shrinking ponds, speeding golf balls: the drought’s toll around Berkeley
Strawberry Creek and the city’s trees are doing OK, but Lake Anza is unswimmable, turtles are getting run over by cars and wild pigs may be moving in.
Posted inCommunity
Clean water is elusive for those living in homeless encampments. Is there a solution?
Unhoused residents and their supporters want the East Bay Municipal Utility District to expand water access for camps.
Posted inCity
300 residents out of water in West Berkeley, nearby cities due to estimated 16 water main breaks
Routine pressure adjustments may have caused older pipes to burst, according to EBMUD.
Posted inCity
Update: Water restored to Berkeley Marina after burst pipe caused major outage
Guests at the DoubleTree hotel and others in the area were without running water after a main break Tuesday afternoon cut the supply to the entire Berkeley Marina.
Posted inCity
Hey Berkeley: Are you ready for up to 8 days without electricity?
PG&E says the amount of time the power could be out has “been hard for a lot of people to accept.” The city is taking steps to prepare. Have you?
Posted inSchools
Extreme lead level found in Berkeley High drinking water, but district says false alarm
New state data show the water was found to contain more than 40 times the legal amount of lead, but no students appear to have been exposed to it.
Posted inSchools
Water at Berkeley schools tested for lead contamination
Preliminary tests at a few sites were negative, but a new law requires EBMUD to test every BUSD school.
Posted inCity
EBMUD responds to water main break at Dwight and Telegraph
Traffic will be affected all day, according to authorities, after an underground water main break in the Southside neighborhood.
Posted inCity
EBMUD works to rid Berkeley water of compounds that can raise risk of cancer
The drought has led to an increase of THMs, which can cause cancer, in the East Bay’s drinking water.
Posted inCommunity
East Bay residents could soon be paying more for water
In an ironic twist of drought economics, EBMUD is considering charging its customers more for water starting July 12 in part because they are consuming less.
Posted inCity
EBMUD delivers pipes to Panoramic Hill via helicopter
The East Bay Municipal Utility District has hired a helicopter to lift about 2,500 feet of pipe into the Panoramic Way neighborhood. The red helicopter started lifting the pipe around 10 a.m. and will complete its task around 2 p.m., according to EBMUD spokeswoman Andrea Pook. The roads leading up Panoramic Hill are so windy […]