U.S. Bureau of Reclamation staff members and consultants are continuing to analyze and study a proposal to greatly increase the San Joaquin River’s water storage and management capabilities and options. Reclamation officials this month conducted a workshop to update cooperating…
Category: Friant Operations
Construction and Maintenance activities of the Friant Kern Canal
Surprise! Friant’s Supply Is Up
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…
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…
Preliminary Proposal Released
BAY-DELTA CONSERVATION PLAN’s 20,000 PAGES Preliminary Proposal Released Twenty thousand pages of planning, alternatives and environmental analysis have been released as a preliminary Bay-Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) draft environmental study. The consultant draft Environmental Impact Report and Environmental Impact Statement…
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…
Water Supply Reduced
Water Supply Reduced Reclamation Cuts Friant’s Class 1 Allocation To 55% Promising early winter conditions have turned into an arid late winter/spring and now are promising a summertime Friant Division surface water supply that will seem just plain parched. The…
West Side Reels From CVP Cutback
West Side Reels From CVP Cutback While the Sierra Nevada’s diminishing snowpack and taking a toll on the Friant Division’s supply, the tiny Delta smelt continues to do a number on the amount of water available to Central Valley Project…
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…
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…