Infrastructure

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 …

The city of Santa Barbara’s Charles E. Meyer Desalination Facility is targeted to be re-activated and actively producing water by mid-May after investing some $70 million financed over 40 years. The desalination plant was originally constructed and operational in the early 1990s. However, due to an abundant rainfall in the …

After having drained the historic Silver Lake Reservoir in late 2015 to prepare for the construction of the Silver Lake Reservoir Complex (SLRC) Bypass Project, Los Angeles area officials gathered earlier this week to crank open the tower valves to begin refilling the Silver Lake complex ahead of schedule. Councilmembers …