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Drought’s Toll Deepens For Friant Users

by Online Publisher • August 4, 2014 • 0 Comments

A bulldozer pushes over orange trees already dying because of a lack of water on Harlan Ranch in the International Water District northeast of Clovis. It is the latest of many such cheerless removals of permanent crops on Friant Division farms this year that have resulted from the zero supply of Central Valley Project allocated to Friant users by the Bureau of Reclamation. Harlan Ranch has pushed over 400 acres of trees out of 1,200 acres total.

Drought’s Toll Deepens For Friant Users It was a sad sight that has been repeated over and over this summer through the normally lush 1.2 million acre Friant Division, home of the nation’s most vital and productive citrus region. Orange…