SAN LUIS RESERVOIR Expansion Gets Study By Bureau San Luis Reservoir’s capacity and project yield could be given modest increases but the greatest benefit of raising B.F. Sisk-San Luis Dam could be improvements to its seismic safety. A U.S. Bureau…
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Concerns Growing Over Subsidence
WESTERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY Concerns Growing Over Subsidence Hydrologists have found that some of the fastest rates of land subsidence ever recorded in the San Joaquin Valley are occurring on the West Side northeast of Dos Palos. The United States…
AROUND FRIANT AND CALIFORNIA
USBR AND CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT Reclamation Duties Are Set For Two Mid-Pacific Deputy Directors Jason Phillips has been given his marching orders as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation adds a second Mid-Pacific Region Deputy Director. Phillips, former San Joaquin River…
Debate Resumes On Water Bonds
Debate Resumes On Water Bonds California’s Legislature is beginning 2014 taking up where it left off on considering what, if anything, to do about the state’s proposed multi-billion-dollar water infrastructure bond measure. As it stands, an $11.2 billion bond proposal…
Friant Participates In News Conference On Dry Year Worries
Friant Participates In News Conference On Dry Year Worries Two Friant Division water leaders took part in a December 17 news conference in Bakersfield during which Representative David G. Valadao (R-CALIFORNIA) and State Senator Jean Fuller (R-BAKERSFIELD) reiterated their request…
Bay-Delta Comprehensive Plan Release Delayed Again
Bay-Delta Comprehensive Plan Release Delayed Again Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) public review has been delayed again with release of draft documents now scheduled to take place December 13. Release of the public draft was postponed last month because of the…
A Federal Example Of Storage Process
SUCCESS DAM A Federal Example Of Storage Process Tom Barcellos did not need to look far from his Tulare County home to find a perfect example for the House Water and Power Subcommittee of how a federal water storage project…
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power marked the milestone’s centennial with November 5 ceremonies.
‘There It Is; Take It’ William Mulholland (left), legendary Los Angeles water engineer, delivers five of the most immortal water words – “There it is; take it” – in California history on November 5, 1913, as the first flow from…
Fall’s Water Outlook Still Looking Dry
Fall’s Water Outlook Still Looking Dry Perhaps there will soon be a change into a pattern of winter rain and snow but as mid November approached there remained no sign of it across Central California. Increasingly severe arid conditions that…
Past River Restoration Manager Named USBR Deputy Area Director
Past River Restoration Manager Named USBR Deputy Area Director Jason Phillips, the first San Joaquin River Restoration Program manager, has been named a Deputy Regional Director in the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region. “Jason has successfully led the way…