Category: Friant Member Districts

Supplies Continue To Dwindle

Southern California Edison Company’s Huntington Lake, at the 7,000 foot elevation in Fresno County, is usually nearly full until Labor Day. Because of the drought, its storage as July was concluding was less than 42% of its capacity.

Supplies Continue To Dwindle Storage Declines; Friant Still At Zero It’s only the beginning of August but there is now less water stored in the nine San Joaquin River reservoirs than the total storage capacity of Millerton Lake. The U.S.…

AROUND CALIFORNIA

sprinkler

STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD Conservation Mandates Begin California’s first-ever emergency regulations mandating urban water conservation have taken effect following July 28 approval by the Office of Administrative Law. State Water Resources Control Board members on July 15 adopted the…

Frustration At ‘Ground Zero’

USBR Michael Jackson

Frustration At ‘Ground Zero’ Still Without Water, Friant Leaders Air Dissatisfaction With USBR Management Frustration over U.S. Bureau of Reclamation management that is resulting in no Central Valley Project water deliveries within the parched Friant Division is mounting among aggravated…

Water Bond Discussions

Water Bond Discussions, Decisions Are At The Wire The state’s ballot measure clock has officially run out on framing a new and different California water bond but just like teams in the hotly contested World Cup state Legislators are in…

AROUND FRIANT AND CALIFORNIA

Sydnie Sousa

AROUND FRIANT AND CALIFORNIA ARVIN-EDISON WATER STORAGE DISTRICT Water Efficiency Grant Awarded Arvin-Edison Water Storage District is one of eight California water agencies to receive a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation agricultural water conservation and efficiency grant. Reclamation announced in early…