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Madera Irrigation District

Long-Time Board Secretary Retires After nearly 32 years, Cyndi Rasco has retired as the Madera Irrigation District’s Board Secretary. She began her MID career in 1981 as an administrative technician and three years later was appointed Secretary. “MID staff and…

Pixley Irrigation District

Long-Time Board Member Retires   Thewis Atsma, Pixley Irrigation District President since 2001 and a PID Director for nearly 23 years, has retired Atsma attended his final Friant Water Authority Board meeting December 14. He began representing Pixley on the old Friant Water…

Sacramento Must Upgrade Sewage Plant

Sacramento Must Upgrade Sewage Plant California’s Water Resources Control Board has upheld a regional water board’s direction that Sacramento must clean up treated wastewater it discharges into the Sacramento River. The Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District was ordered December 4…

Court Favors A Small Fish

SANTA ANA RIVER Court Favors A Small Fish A federal judge last month upheld a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to double the Southern California area considered critical to the survival of the endangered but tiny algae-eating Santa Ana sucker…

Tough Sewage Rules Affirmed

SACRAMENTO Tough Sewage Rules Affirmed Two years after the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District was ordered by regional regulators to greatly clean the treated quality of wastewater discharged into the Sacramento River, the State Water Resources Control Board has reaffirmed…

Voters Reject Hetch Hetchy

CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO Voters Reject Hetch Hetchy Draining Study San Francisco voters have overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to launch a formal study into eliminating Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park, the most vital but equally controversial…

Around Friant and the Valley

SUCCESS DAM Safety Concerns Shifted Thirteen years after its growing Success Dam seismic safety concerns began leading to Lake Success capacity constraints, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has shifted its primary worry to the spillway and potential for flood…

Speaking At A National Water Conference

Mario Santoyo, Friant Water Authority Assistant General Manager, speaks to the National Water Resources Association’s U.S. convention earlier this month at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego County. Listening (right) is another panelist, Association of California Water Agencies Executive…