Infrastructure

A 2014, $7.5 billion water bond, overwhelmingly supported by California’s voters, is now making $86.3 million available for Groundwater Sustainability Plans and Projects. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced the release of 2017 Draft Proposal Solicitation Package for Groundwater Sustainability Plans and Projects earlier this week which is intended …

As part of the Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse program, the Bureau of Reclamation has awarded more than $23,000,000 to water agencies and projects in seven states for planning, designing and constructing water recycling and re-use projects; developing feasibility studies; and researching desalination and water recycling projects. The majority …

Earlier this week, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released preliminary findings of the independent Forensics Team investigating what may have contributed to the Lake Oroville main spillway failure on Feb. 7. “This memo outlines the potential causes of the main spillway failure, which will be thoroughly investigated by …

Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) recently announced it has received funding and will soon begin construction on the first phase of a sewer system in the Quail Valley area of Menifee. Earlier this year EMWD finalized an agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB), to contribute $8 million …

Californians have overwhelmingly stated their support for seawater desalination projects as a way to bring more reliable water to the state. Although water year (WY) 2016-17 has provided abundant precipitation, the memory of the state’s worst five-year drought in modern history continues to reminds residents of California’s feast-or-famine water woes. …

A competition to aid in helping migrating juvenile over or around tall dams, sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, has identified four submissions to share in $20,000 for their proposed solutions.  Moving migrating juvenile fish past tall dams will ensure habitat connectivity that many threatened and endangered fish populations …