Infrastructure

After two-plus months of headlines, the temporary evacuation of nearly 200,000 people and round-the-clock work to attempt to shore up what started as a crack and become a crater – officials with the Department of Water Resources (DWR) have awarded a $275 million contract to Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. for …

The board of directors for the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD) recently approved funds to replace and relocate a sewer lift station on westbound Dublin Boulevard. DSRSD is moving the sewer lift station before the City of Dublin begins widening the road between Dublin Court and Sierra Court later …

The Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project in the Mojave Desert have received a major boost from the Trump administration this week with the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) removal of two agency instructional memoranda, or IMs, that formed the basis of a 2015 review of the Cadiz …

Eight projects throughout the state will be sharing $20 million in an initial round of grant funds statewide to cleanup or prevent the spread of groundwater contamination to aquifers serving as a source of drinking water. The projects help achieve the goals of California’s Water Action Plan, which was released …

Representatives of the Friant Water Authority, San Joaquin River Exchange Contractors Water Authority, San Joaquin Valley Water Infrastructure Authority, and San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority have signed a joint letter to the California Water Commission (CWC) pledging their cooperation in developing the Temperance Flat Reservoir project. The joint letter …

After nearly a year-and-a-half of an empty concrete reservoir basin — filled only with construction trucks, equipment, unsightly weeds and the occasional small water puddle behind a chain-link fence – Silver Lake Reservoir will begin refilling in mid-April. The reservoir was emptied in late 2015 to allow for the construction …