EKI has been assisting water agencies across California with drought response planning in response to the Governor’s Executive Orders and 2015 UWMP requirements.  As a part of these efforts, EKI has developed an Excel-based spreadsheet model to help agencies identify water savings opportunities, by customer sector and major end-use, and to quantify and compare the potential water savings benefits of…Read More

Drought is here and its impacts are being felt by water utilities, industries, and individuals alike. More than 80% of the State of California is in an “extreme” drought condition (see the California Drought Map) resulting in dramatic water supply shortfalls, increased wildfire events, declining groundwater…Read More

Facing a record drought and dramatic groundwater level declines in some areas, California legislators passed a trio of bills this legislative session that together provide, for the first time in the state’s history, a framework for the sustainable management of the state’s groundwater resources. The three bills, Senate Bills 1168 (Pavley) and 1319 (Pavley) and Assembly Bill 1739 (Dickinson),…Read More

Erler & Kalinowski, Inc., (“EKI”) provides our clients with comprehensive environmental engineering services related to complying with regulations established under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (“CWA”; 33 U.S.C. §1251 et seq.).  We have worked on behalf of numerous industrial clients on a wide range of stormwater compliance-related issues and have provided technical support as part of citizen lawsuits…Read More

As the news headlines have been highlighting, 2012 and 2013 have been some of the driest years in recorded history for California. With no significant precipitation on the horizon, we start 2014 with water storage reservoirs low, fire danger high, and drought on everyone’s mind.

In light of this, some of the agencies that EKI works with are dusting off…Read More