Infrastructure

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 …

Municipal Water District of Orange County’s (MWDOC) Leak Detection Program has helped plug nearly a thousand hidden leaks throughout Orange County. MWDOC began offering leak detection services to OC water providers in 2019. Over the past four years, MWDOC has partnered with 18 different OC water retailers to detect leaks …

Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) received a nearly $4 million grant from CalRecycle for its new co-digestion and renewable gas project. VVWRA says the project will increase the amount of food waste they can treat while also increasing the amount of renewable natural gas (RNG) produced. The project will …

A dump truck filled with 10 cubic yards of sediment rolled out of the Littlerock Dam last week, marking the start of a Palmdale Water District (PWD) project that was postponed in the early 1990s when the federally protected arroyo toad was discovered in the area. Removal of the first …

Cadiz Inc. announced last week that it will begin construction of three new groundwater wells at Cadiz Ranch in October and initial engineering study for the conversion of the Company’s 220-mile oil and gas pipeline to transport water (“Northern Pipeline Project”) has been completed. Once the three new wells are …