Infrastructure

United Water Conservation District (UWCD), local dignitaries and members of the public came together for a ribbon cutting last week to celebrate the opening of a new Iron and Manganese Treatment Plant at the District’s El Rio facility. The new plant ensures water quality and supply and adds drought resiliency for the …

Metropolitan Water District’s Board of Directors voted last week to move forward with two projects aimed at increasing water supplies for millions of Southern Californians. The projects separately work to push water from the Colorado River and Diamond Valley Lake, Southern California’s largest reservoir, into communities that currently have limited …

Stockton East Water District (SEWD) recently completed construction of a new sodium hypochlorite disinfection facility at the Dr. Joe Waidhofer Water Treatment Plant. SEWD held a ribbon cutting ceremony September 5 to mark the occasion. The new facility allows SEWD to disinfect treated drinking water with high strength bleach. According …

On Wednesday, Stockton East Water District and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) joined local and federal officials to highlight a $12.2 million project that will support groundwater recharge, water quality and habitat restoration project along the Calaveras River. The announcement is part of DWR’s new “Go Golden Initiative,” …

San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency (SGPWA) is in the process of planning to build a new set of percolation basins to support the growing demand for new water storage. The Brookside West Recharge Facility (Brookside West), will complement SGPWA’s existing Brookside East Recharge Facility in Beaumont, located on sixty-two and …

The Turlock Irrigation District (TID) recently announced the completion of the Ceres Main Regulating Reservoir. The new reservoir has an operational storage capacity of 220 acre-feet (AF) and will provide an estimated 10,000 AF of average annual water savings. The Ceres Main Regulating Reservoir sits on 36 acres and captures …