Infrastructure

San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency (SGPWA) is in the process of planning to build a new set of percolation basins to support the growing demand for new water storage. The Brookside West Recharge Facility (Brookside West), will complement SGPWA’s existing Brookside East Recharge Facility in Beaumont, located on sixty-two and …

The Turlock Irrigation District (TID) recently announced the completion of the Ceres Main Regulating Reservoir. The new reservoir has an operational storage capacity of 220 acre-feet (AF) and will provide an estimated 10,000 AF of average annual water savings. The Ceres Main Regulating Reservoir sits on 36 acres and captures …

Cadiz, Inc. announced yesterday that the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted to execute a joinder agreement with Santa Margarita Water District (“SMWD”) and Fenner Gap Mutual Water Company (“Fenner Gap”) becoming an ex-officio member of the Fenner Valley Water Authority (“Authority”), the joint powers authority that will oversee …

Three California infrastructure projects aimed at increasing the amount of water storage available in state will receive $50 million from the Federal Government. The Department of the Interior announced last week funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act would support water infrastructure projects, including water purification …

State Assemblymember Lisa Calderon (D-Whittier), E. Joaquin Esquivel, State Water Resources Control Board chair, and Carson Mayor Pro Tem Jawane Hilton joined representatives from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts during the event at the Pure Water Southern California demonstration facility this week …

Tuolumne Utilities District recently announced work has been completed on the Crystal Falls/Cedar Ridge Water Treatment Consolidation Project. The project provides improved efficiency, cost savings and the elimination of the Cedar Ridge Water Treatment Plant.   The project also included installing a new pump station at the Crystal Falls Water Treatment …