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…
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Zero Allocation Concerns Draw Big Crowd
Zero Allocation Concerns Draw Big Crowd Audience Of 2,000 Friant Water Users Hears Drought’s Grim Status, Rallies For Flexibility Briefly heavy rain may have been falling outside but water supply curtailments were most on the minds of a concerned Tulare…
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…
Obama Views Drought Impacts
Obama Views Drought Impacts President Barack Obama’s brief Valentine’s Day visit to the parched western San Joaquin Valley has thus far resulted in no additional Central Valley Project water but did bring some federal drought relief financial aid and a…
Storms Give Valley And Sierra Welcomed Soaking, Little Relief
Storms Give Valley And Sierra Welcomed Soaking, Little Relief All the San Joaquin Valley rain and mountain snow that fell — in one small early February storm and two larger and wetter events as the month was ending — was…
Drought, Water Issues Get World Ag Expo Focus
Drought, Water Issues Get World Ag Expo Focus California’s drought and all its related problems were a big topic at the recent World Ag Expo in Tulare. Between numerous commercial exhibits and demonstrations and a number of special presentations, there…
SAN JOAQUIN RIVER EXCHANGE CONTRACTORS’ HISTORIC RIGHTS
SAN JOAQUIN RIVER EXCHANGE CONTRACTORS’ HISTORIC RIGHTS ‘Call’ On River Supply Expected Friant’s water supply outlook is actually worse than the official declaration, Friant Water Authority General Manager Ronald D. Jacobsma says. The San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors — which…
Enlarge San Luis?
Commissioner Says Reclamation Is Making ‘Appraisal Level Analysis’ Of Raising Dam There have been lots of ideas for easing California’s water crisis and particularly Central Valley Project supply hits being taken in parts of the San Joaquin Valley but few…