Infrastructure

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 …

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 …