Infrastructure

Testing began recently by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the new Folsom Dam Auxiliary Spillway as part of the official commissioning of the newly constructed structure. The tests began this past week and will extend through next week as well. They operating …

On the 24th anniversary of the Northridge earthquake, elected officials and representatives from the Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the California State Water Resources Control Board gathered for the groundbreaking for a $92 million project to clean up and restore the use of groundwater as a safe, …

Community water systems throughout California have been notified by the State Water Resources Control Board that lead sampling of all public schools drinking water must be completed by July 1, 2019 for schools built before 2010. Assembly Bill (AB) 746 – originally introduced by Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-District …

San Mateo County Superior Court Case No. CIV 470999 – California Water Service and the city of Bakersfield vs. The Dow Chemical Company – has been recently settled regarding the contamination of the city’s water by fumigant manufactured by Dow/Shell Oil which contained 1,2,3 trichloropropane (TCP). Under the settlement terms, …

On the heels of preliminary findings and an interim memorandum – both released last year – in the Lake Oroville Spillways incident, the Independent Forensic Team (IFT) released additional findings late last week from its review of the February 2017 incident. In addition to identifying the combined causes that led …

The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $4.9 million contract to Systems Integrated on Jan. 2 for a five-phase project to replace and modernize existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to further standardize Reclamation’s system architectures between its Upper and Lower Colorado Regions. This is regarded …