San Diego County’s Padre Dam Municipal Water District (PDMWD) was recently presented with the 2018 Recycled Water Community Outreach/Public Education Program of the Year award from WateReuse California. The award recognizes the public education and outreach efforts by PDMWD for their East County Advanced Water Purification Program. The potable reuse …
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Thirteen-year-old Jesse Hernandez was found early Monday morning following an approximately 13-hour ordeal after he fell some 25-feet into a sewer line. The youngster and his extended family were celebrating Easter with an annual event at Griffith Park near the train museum. The young teen fell into the sewer system …
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A diverse group of five leading California business associations have joined a growing group of elected officials and organizations in support of the Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project (Cadiz Water Project). The Cadiz Water Project, a public-private partnership, announced recently that the Valley Industry Commerce Association (VICA), …
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Intense work continues at the Lake Oroville Spillways and the Department of Water Resources (DWR) recently announced in its most recent update that the emergency spillway’s underground secant pile cutoff wall was completed on March 7 and marks a major milestone for 2018 construction. The secant pile wall is 1,450- …
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Seeking to stem the tide of billions of gallons of water being lost annually to undetected leaks in pipes delivering water, the Bureau of Reclamation has announced a new prize competition quest for innovative methods and technologies to detect leaks and flaws in large buried pipelines. No practical method currently …
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The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region has issued a reminder that unauthorized drone operations are restricted around California’s Folsom and Shasta dams. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced an expanded list of restricted drone operations sites last September which included the two California dams. The FAA’s order was put in …
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