After having shut down its Orinda Water Treatment Plant in the fall of 2016 for needed improvements, the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) has re-opened the facility and Sierra mountain water is now back on tap for the district’s 800,000 customers west of the Oakland Berkeley Hills. To ensure …
Read More »Eastern Municipal Water District now providing water service for 140 Menifee rural area homes
A rural enclave of 140 homes in central Riverside County finally have a new water system to provide safe and dependable water after years of a problematic and unreliable water source. Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) recently began providing water service to the former customers of the now-defunct, private and …
Read More »Contract awarded by DWR to Kiewit Infrastructure West for repairs to Oroville Dam spillways
After two-plus months of headlines, the temporary evacuation of nearly 200,000 people and round-the-clock work to attempt to shore up what started as a crack and become a crater – officials with the Department of Water Resources (DWR) have awarded a $275 million contract to Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. for …
Read More »Dublin San Ramon Services District to move sewer lift station in anticipation of street widening
The board of directors for the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD) recently approved funds to replace and relocate a sewer lift station on westbound Dublin Boulevard. DSRSD is moving the sewer lift station before the City of Dublin begins widening the road between Dublin Court and Sierra Court later …
Read More »Cadiz water project counters inaccurate remarks by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein
The Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project in the Mojave Desert have received a major boost from the Trump administration this week with the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) removal of two agency instructional memoranda, or IMs, that formed the basis of a 2015 review of the Cadiz …
Read More »Eight agencies to share $20 million to cleanup/prevent spread of groundwater contamination
Eight projects throughout the state will be sharing $20 million in an initial round of grant funds statewide to cleanup or prevent the spread of groundwater contamination to aquifers serving as a source of drinking water. The projects help achieve the goals of California’s Water Action Plan, which was released …
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