SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON COMPANY Big Creek Project’s Centennial Is Celebrated For 100 years, San Joaquin River and tributary flows that now find their way to beneficial Friant Division uses have been the world’s hardest working water, generating power in…
Food, Ag Board Jumps Into Groundwater Issues California’s State Board of Food and Agriculture has joined a growing list of state agencies becoming interested or actively involved in the state’s groundwater. The board on November 5 examined what were termed…
Implementation Begins For New Discharge Rules With the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program general order in place for the Tulare Lake Basin region, everyone who makes use of irrigation in farming is about to…
Polling Shows Support As Discussions Continue On Three Different 2014 Courses Proposals Could Steer As discussions continue on three differing revised versions of a comprehensive water bond, recent polling appears to show a majority of Californians are well aware of the…
Groundwater Quality Discharge Rules OK’d All portions of the Friant Division service area are now covered by strict new regulations governing water quality of discharges into the aquifer, rules that affect all irrigated agricultural acreage. The Central Valley Regional Water Quality…
Friant Salmon Hatchery Plans Are Taking Shape Draft Environmental Report Issued For Project Plans for a key hatchery facility, considered vital in the effort to restore a salmon run in the San Joaquin River, have progressed to the environmental review stage.…
Review Period May (Or May Not) Get November 15 Start California’s long-awaited Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP), which includes proposals for twin tunnels to provide Delta bypass conveyance for water export supplies, is to be released for public review in mid-November. Or perhaps…
FRESNO COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICT NO. 18 County, USBR Negotiate Local System’s Transfer The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is negotiating with Fresno County Waterworks District No. 18 for the long-term transfer of operation and maintenance of Reclamation-owned facilities located at Friant…
Added Fish Protection Planned Another step is being taken by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to reduce the “taking” of fish at the Central Valley Project’s Jones Pumping Plant in the Delta near Tracy. Bureau officials have awarded a $4,273,369…
Draft Rule, Study May Expand Clean Water Act Federal Clean Water Act regulatory tentacles appear to again be expanding through a new rulemaking process and worrisome draft study. In late September, the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of…