Nevin Kallepalli

2 months ago | shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce |Nevin Kallepalli

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rain in recent days, compounded by releases from the Shasta Reservoir that were needed to manage heavy inflows from the foothills, have created damaging flood conditions across parts of Shasta County. During the first six days of February alone, even as rains slowed, the Shasta Reservoir rose by 22 feet as water flowed in from surrounding elevations.

Jan 15, 2025 | shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli

“Accountability” was the central theme of a new custody plan presented by Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson at yesterday’s Board of Supervisor’s Meeting. The presentation was listed on the Board’s agenda as a discussion of Proposition 36 but Johnson used the opportunity to float the idea of a new “Corrections and Rehabilitation Campus” that would create space for more people to enter Shasta County’s carceral system.

Jan 12, 2025 | shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli

Farmers in parts of Shasta and Tehama counties have officially entered a new contractual agreement with a party which many in the District view as an existential threat: the federal government. On January 9, the five-member board of the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) voted unanimously to opt into a federal Drought Protection Program (DPP).

Jan 10, 2025 | shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli

On January 7, 2024 the sun rose over 848,000 acres of California wilderness that’s been newly protected from the encroachment of industrialists. The land includes the sites of two new national monuments that were just signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the America the Beautiful initiative. The new monuments federalize Chuckwalla, close to Joshua Tree National Park, as well as the Sátíttla Highlands in California’s far north.

Jan 7, 2025 | shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli

The traumatic memory of California’s devastating 2022 drought is back on the minds of Shasta County irrigators. Members of the Board of the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) told water users a few weeks ago that they’ll decide in January whether to sign a federal Drought Protection Program (DPP) agreement that would reduce ACID’s water rights in “critically dry” years while providing funds for infrastructure improvements.