The Rancho California Water District (Rancho Water) Board of Directors announced at their March 11, 2021 board meeting that Robert Grantham had been selected as the new General Manager. Richard Aragon and Eva Plajzer, who have been acting as interim General Managers for the past five months, will continue in …
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Westlands Water District announced they have been awarded a $1,609,000 Water and Energy Efficiency grant from the Bureau of Reclamation. The grant is for the District’s Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) Project, which will retrofit 760 manually read groundwater well meters with advanced, automated metering devices that can transmit data over …
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Cal Water has signed an agreement to acquire the water system assets of Skylonda Mutual Water Company. Cal Water would serve Skylonda’s 176 customers through it’s Bear Gulch District which currently serves about 60,900 people through 18,900 service connections in Portola Valley, Woodside, Atherton, and portions of Menlo Park, Redwood City, …
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Irvine Ranch Water District has kicked off a new series of virtual events, featuring prerecorded tours and live presentations by IRWD water quality experts. The rotating series begins this week and will repeat in the fall: San Joaquin Marsh & Wildlife Sanctuary Virtual Tour: noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 17 …
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A cannabis cultivation company in San Bernardino County has agreed to pay $125,000 for diverting industrial wastewater to its septic tank, potentially threatening the City of Needles’ drinking water supply. An investigation conducted last June found that NCA Management, Co., LLC, discharged approximately 94,200 gallons of cannabis cultivation wastewater to …
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Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) has received a $5.8 million reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) after appealing a Federal auditor’s report alleging mishandling of funds for the Upper Narrows emergency and pipeline realignment projects. “This payment is an exoneration of VVWRA and how it handled Federal …
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