August 22, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For More Information, Please Contact: RONALD D. JACOBSMA, GENERAL MANAGER Office: (559) 562-6305 or Mobile: (559) 799-0700 Reclamation’s Klamath Decision and its CVP Harm Statement by RONALD D. JACOBSMA, General Manager, Friant Water Authority…
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Supplies Continue To Dwindle
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.…
Friant’s ‘Zero’ Disaster Mounts
Friant’s ‘Zero’ Disaster Mounts Parched Trees Being Pulled As Senior Rights Water Releases Begin Zero remains the frustrating word for Friant Division growers who continue to have no Central Valley Project water to use and, in many cases, little or…
Friant Files Legal Challenge Over How Exchange Contractors’ Water Is Being Supplied
May 20, 2014 For Immediate Release RONALD D. JACOBSMA, GENERAL MANAGER Office: (559) 562-6305 or Mobile: (559) 799-0700 Or: JENNIFER BUCKMAN, GENERAL COUNSEL Telephone: (916) 804-0173 Friant Files Legal Challenge Over How Exchange Contractors’ Water Is Being Supplied How the…
Reclamation Will Begin To Drain Away Friant’s CVP Water on Thursday
May 13, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RONALD D. JACOBSMA, GENERAL MANAGER Office: (559) 562-6305 or Mobile: (559) 799-0700 Prepared And Distributed By: J. RANDALL McFARLAND, PUBLIC INFORMATION CONSULTANT Telephone: (559) 260-2775 ZERO DECLARATION CONTINUES DESPITE SHASTA, SAN LUIS STORAGE…
Today’s River And Salmon
FROM THE GENERAL MANAGER Today’s River And Salmon By Ronald D. Jacobsma For Friant water users and your local districts, there has never been a more difficult water supply year. As we all know much too well, right now there…
Disaster Looms; Billions In Losses Seen
Disaster Looms; Billions In Losses Seen Federal Fish Requirements Constrain Delta Export Pumping Economic losses in the billions of dollars are looming with the promise of a financial and social calamity along the southern San Joaquin Valley’s East Side as a…
Friant Water Authority Hosting Informational Meeting on California Drought
Friant Water Authority Hosting Informational Meeting on California Drought Drought Update U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and State Officials join East Side water leaders in a brief informational discussion of the Zero Allocation for users along the Friant-Kern and Madera canals.…
Drought Impact: 0% Friant Supply
Drought’s Impact: 0% Friant Supply Bureau of Reclamation officials’ first 2014 Friant Division supply declaration told Friant water users the bad news they had been expecting – that there currently is no Central Valley Project water to declare. Fourteen drought…
Massive Impacts Loom For Farmers
CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE Massive Impacts Loom For Farmers There seems to be no question that the big losers in California’s three-year drought are going to be those tied in some way to irrigated agriculture. California has long been the nation’s leading…