Articles written by J. David Garmon M.d.
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Groundwater Reliance
Borrego Springs, November 19, 2024 – In a breakthrough study led by UC Irvine researchers, new findings have confirmed that mesquite trees near the Borrego Sink rely o groundwater to survive. This revelation confirms the presence of a groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GDE) in t... — Updated 12/2/2024
Protecting the Park: Front Line Update
Assembly Bill 3238 (Edwardo Garcia, D-Coachella) died in the Senate Appropriations Committee on August 16, 2024. By removing protections enshrined in the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), AB 3238 would have given carte blanche to California’s electric grid regulatory a... — Updated 8/22/2024
Power Lines Emerge
The specter of a towering 500 kV transmission line cutting in half the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park has haunted our region for the last two decades. Construction of such a line would be a disturbing, years-long proposition. The region’s unsurpassed wilderness scenery and long un... — Updated 6/1/2024
Groundwater Ecosystem Findings
Scientists from the University of California Irvine (UCI) presented initial findings of a three-year study of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) in the Borrego Subbasin on March 27 at the Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Res... — Updated 5/1/2023
Borrego In The Crosshairs, Again
Borrego's perennial celebration of springtime wildflowers is shadowed by a darker perennial – San Diego's incessant musings of turning Borrego Springs into an industrial wasteland. In 2010, Borregans fought off the Sunrise P... — Updated 3/6/2023
With Whom Do We Share Our Water?
Are any of the plants and animals in our valley dependent upon the same groundwater we humans are? This is the question at the center of a $1M study created by a partnership of the Tubb Canyon Desert Conservancy (TCDC), the University of California, Irvine, and the San Diego... — Updated 11/4/2022
Opposition Grows to RCS
At the next meeting of the Borrego Springs Community Sponsor Group on May 6, 2021 at 4:30 p.m., representatives from the San Diego County Water Authority (CWA) will pitch their plan to turn Borrego Springs into an industrial construction zone for 15 years to build a Regional... — Updated 4/25/2021
Rudyville is Dead, Again… Really
On February 25, 2021 the San Diego County Department of Planning and Development Services (PDS) announced it had “discontinued” a six-year old project designed to respond to 60 property owners from across the county who claimed to have been damaged by the implementation of the... — Updated 4/1/2021
Desert Pipe Dream
“Oh, what a wondrous thing – all the free water we could want in the middle of the desert. Brought to us by that beneficent colossus of water, the San Diego County Water Authority. We can have more golf courses, green farms will carpet the valley, businesses will bloom, and Bor... — Updated 12/2/2020
