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…
Category: San Joaquin River Restoration Program
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…
LEARNING ABOUT FRIANT AND THE SAN JOAQUIN RIVER
LEARNING ABOUT FRIANT AND THE SAN JOAQUIN RIVER William Luce, Friant Water Authority Resources Manager, addresses members of the Fresno County Farm Bureau’s FAACT leadership class on details of the San Joaquin River settlement. The FWA helped arrange a tour of…
Friant Not Included In River-Flow Proposal
Friant Not Included In River-Flow Proposal A great deal of concern is being voiced by community, agricultural and water leaders along lower San Joaquin River tributaries about a State Water Resources Control Board proposal to place 35% of each river’s…
Bureau Files Recaptured River Water Environmental Findings
Bureau Files Recaptured River Water Environmental Findings Returning San Joaquin River Restoration Program flows to Friant users has always been one of the program’s goals and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is taking steps to do just that over the…
Funds Expected For Recharge Programs
RESTORATION DEVELOPMENTS Funds Expected For Recharge Programs With the San Joaquin River Restoration Program in place, increasing opportunities to store more water has never been more important within the Friant Division. Funds about to be made available by the U.S.…
Sequestration Will Affect Reclamation
Sequestration Will Affect Reclamation FEDERAL DISPUTE Federal sequestration became reality March 1 and while the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation expects its employees and at least some operations and activities to be impacted, the agency’s business most often noticed by water…
LOWER SAN JOAQUIN RIVER
LOWER SAN JOAQUIN RIVER Comment Period Extended For ‘Unimpaired’ Flow Plans Water agencies along the lower San Joaquin River and its tributaries continue to keep close tabs on a State Water Resources Control Board proposal to impose new downstream flow…
Water Education Foundation Tour
55 people were learning about San Joaquin River issues during a Water Education Foundation tour and viewing the river during a stop atop Mendota Dam.
San Joaquin River Restoration Program
Staff members attached to the San Joaquin River Restoration Program have been trapping fall run salmon that have strayed into the San Joaquin River rather than following their native Merced River waters. The salmon were tagged and released into the…