Surprise! Friant’s Supply Is Up Higher Than Expected Runoff Permits Class 1 Declaration Boost to 55% There is no denying that the current water year’s conditions have been extremely dry but nature has provided the San Joaquin River with a…
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Dry Outlook Goes From Bad To Worse
Dry Outlook Goes From Bad To Worse January-April Precipitation Total Is Driest On Record In a seemingly ever-drier water year like this one, it figures that a bunch of early May rain showers would add up to one of the biggest storms…
Another Cut For Friant’s Water Supply
Another Cut For Friant’s Water Supply Class 1 Down To 45%; Restoration Flows Drop Another bite has been taken by this year’s mostly dry conditions out of the Friant Division’s remaining Central Valley Project water supply but this time Friant’s…
Keeping Storage In Water Bond Is Goal
Keeping Storage In Water Bond Is Goal Discussion is increasing in many quarters on what new forms California’s long-proposed water infrastructure bond should take if its bottom line is to shrink but the leader of the state’s largest water…
Tulare Irrigation District Cancels Water Deliveries
Tulare Irrigation District Cancels Water Deliveries The current dry year has delivered a knockout punch for Tulare Irrigation District water deliveries. General Manager J. Paul Hendrix said TID will have no water run for only the fourth time…
New USBR Regional Director Meets With Friant’s Board
New USBR Regional Director Meets With Friant’s Board David Murillo, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s new Mid-Pacific Regional Director, is a man interested in results. Murillo met March 28 with Friant Water Authority directors at their monthly meeting in Visalia…
Nitrates Issue Is Forum’s Focus
Nitrates Issue Is Forum’s Focus California’s Weed Science Society usually focuses its attention on – well – weeds but fertilizer was a hot topic during the group’s recent Sacramento conference. Nitrogen is needed to grow crops and weeds but its…
FKC Getting Back In Business
Flows and demands are still very low but water is again flowing through the Friant-Kern Canal (as viewed near Academy, northeast of Clovis). Deliveries are resuming after a dewatering period of nearly four months to permit chemical treatments aimed at…
Lower Tule River Director Named Top Farmer
Lower Tule River Director Named Top Farmer Tipton dairyman and diversified farmer Tom Barcellos, a Director of the Lower Tule River Irrigation District and the Tule River Association, will be honored by the Kiwanis Club of Tulare with its 53rd…
Another Dry Winter Takes Supply Toll
Another Dry Winter Takes Supply Toll Friant’s Initial Allocation Is 65% Of Class 1; Runoff Outlook Falls For a second consecutive year, winter storms seem to have largely done a disappearing act in Central California, a fact that has not…