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…
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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…
Friant Staff Evaluating Draft Bay-Delta Plan
Friant Staff Evaluating Draft Bay-Delta Plan Release of the Bay-Delta Comprehensive Plan’s administrative draft continues and as each chapter becomes publicly available the Friant Water Authority’s staff is evaluating what the plan says. “We are taking a close look at…
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…
Friant Board Adopts New Bond Stance
Friant Board Adopts New Bond Stance Friant Water Authority directors have taken a new policy position on the state water bond that moves from endorsing the measure slated to appear on a 2014 ballot to favoring inclusion of several crucial…
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…
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…
Lengthy Friant-Kern Dewatering Process Is Nearing An End
Lengthy Friant-Kern Dewatering Process Is Nearing An End A three-and-a-half month Friant Water Authority maintenance blitz that featured an all-out battle against a voracious aquatic weed known as Western water milfoil has come to an end. For the first time…
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…
Bay Delta Plan Gets A New Delay
Bay Delta Plan Gets A New Delay More Analysis Of Downsized Tunnel Proposal Under Way Release of a draft Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) has again been delayed to late January or early February as concerns raised by federal and…