Conservation Lags Among Californians Although Friant Division water use is down dramatically due to the lack of a Central Valley Project surface supply, the vast majority of Californians has been reluctant to conserve in the face of one of the…
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Drought Aid
Drought Aid Relief Measure Gets OK It may be short on real water but legislation has been approved in Sacramento that provides $687.4 million in emergency drought relief. The two-bill package, relying largely on funds unspent from previous water bonds,…
Big Valley Crowd Rallies For Water At Capitol
Big Valley Crowd Rallies For Water At Capitol Valley voices, including many from the Friant Division, have again been raised on water issues at the State Capitol. They may have been heard. Within two hours after the crowd of more…
Governor Eases Water Transfer Rules
Governor Eases Water Transfer Rules An executive order has been issued by Governor Brown seeking to ease water restrictions for farmers, following two dry winters in a row. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and Department of Water Resources (DWR)…
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…
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…
Pint-Sized Tunnel Plan
Pint-Sized Tunnel Plan Environmental Suggestion To Drastically Shrink Delta Conveyance Facility Size Sparks Retorts When the newest concept for tunneling to convey water under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta was being hatched, the project’s scope and capacity were enormous – capable…
Bay-Delta Plan To Legislature
Bay-Delta Plan To Legislature Governor Brown used his State of the State address to reiterate his support for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and its through-Delta conveyance proposals and talk about costs. “My proposed plan is two tunnels, 30…
Governor Lists Water On Agenda
Water remains high on Governor Jerry Brown’s after-election agenda but it remains to be seen what course that objective will take. During a November 7 State Capitol news conference, the third-term Democratic Governor told reporters that there remains a “lot…