Infrastructure

The California Natural Resources Agency released a 10-year plan late last week for the receding Salton Sea, specifically targeting the northern and southern ends of the lake. The $383 million plan calls for an anticipated 30,000 acres of exposed, dusty lakebed to be covered by ponds and wetlands that will …

The Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant in San Pedro has recently undergone a $50 million expansion, effectively doubling the plant’s capacity to treat its original six million gallons to 12 million gallons. The plant’s increased production is being heralded as a way to assist the Los Angeles area grow its …

As California faces another round of February’s rain and snow, legislators, emergency service personnel and the general public are expressing thanks to President Trump for his recent disaster declarations enabling federal funding to assist with the damage and evacuations from to the Oroville Dam disaster as well as the damage …

The gaping hole In Oroville’s dam spillway is not the only damage to dams throughout the state due to the deluge of rain being experienced throughout most of the state. Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County is reporting, via social media, that nearby Miller and Upper Blackwelder’s earthen dams …

Documents were released late last week by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) for public review of the draft Initial Study and Environmental Assessment (IS/EA) for the proposed Fremont Weir Adult Fish Passage Modification Project. The project, located in the northern portion of …

Representatives of the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD), East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), and the city of Pleasanton congregated earlier this week to kick-off the beginning of an 18-month construction project to expand the Jeffrey G. Hansen Water Recycling Plant in Pleasanton. The expansion is anticipated to increase …