SBVWCD Launches Field Notes Newsletter on Groundwater Recharge
Redlands – October 15, 2026 -- The San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District (SBVWCD) has launched Field Notes, a newsletter whose first issue reports 40,291 acre-feet of groundwater recharge during the 2025–26 water year and a $5.403 million U.S. Bureau of Reclamation grant for Oak Creek recharge basins.
First issue covers federal grant, recharge volumes and a fellowship
The issue, released the first week of October, also reports a GrizzlyCorps fellowship for SBVWCD intern Maya Stokes. The Reclamation grant is earmarked for the Oak Creek recharge basins.
The newsletter draws on staff work in the Santa Ana River Wash and along Mill Creek, where the district captures, stores and monitors the valley's groundwater.