Infrastructure

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) gave its final approval Thursday for a plan to remove four dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon. The order paves the way for enactment of a settlement agreement nearly 15 years in the making by California, Oregon, the Yurok and Karuk …

Yuba Water Agency has agreed to spend $9 million to support a series of levee improvements in South Yuba County. The funding could potentially leverage state and federal dollars for a total investment of $41.6 million into completing design and implementation of a Climate Resiliency Project and to prepare a …

Earlier this month, four treatment plants in Orange came online and began treating local well water to remove per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Construction of the facilities took about a year to complete and are among 36 PFAS treatment facilities being designed and constructed in Orange County over the next two …

An additional $30 million in funding has been allotted from the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to the Sites Reservoir project, bringing the total in Federal funding from the Bureau of Reclamation for construction of the Sites Reservoir to roughly $134 million. “Sites Reservoir creates new resiliency for California …

Yuba Water Agency recently approved more than $4.2 million in funding to support a major water and wastewater infrastructure expansion project in south Yuba County and a planned forest biomass plant and business center in the foothills. Two loans, one for $2.6 million to the City of Wheatland and a …

Earlier this month the State Water Resources Control Board voted to provide and additional $17 million in grant funding to Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) for its Perris North Groundwater Program (Perris North). The Perris North program will improve groundwater quality in the North Perris Groundwater Basin, in the Moreno …