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Rialto-based West Valley Water District’s (WVWD) Board of Directors has directed Interim General Manager Robert Christman to study and prepare an impact report on a proposed rebate for district customers and present the findings at the next Board of Directors’ meeting on Jan. 18. The board is considering a 15 …

The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $4.9 million contract to Systems Integrated on Jan. 2 for a five-phase project to replace and modernize existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to further standardize Reclamation’s system architectures between its Upper and Lower Colorado Regions. This is regarded …

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) had planned to begin a two-month testing of a well in the Owens Valley that was overhauled in 2014. However, the low snowpack in the Eastern Sierra has caused LADWP’s water managers to scrap these plans with hopes to conduct the …

Riverside Public Utilities (RPU) veteran Todd Jorgenson has been named Interim General Manager for public utilities by Riverside City Manager John Russo. He has served most recently as Assistant General Manager for Water for the city of Riverside since October 2015. Jorgenson joined RPU in July 2004. Prior to his …

In winter 2015-16, Kirkwood Mountain Resort allegedly violated the federal Clean Water Act when recycled asphalt pavement grindings from snow removal activities entered drainages that flow into Kirkwood Creek and Kirkwood Meadows. Potential impacts from discharging asphalt grindings into waterways can include smothering aquatic habitat and spawning areas, toxicity to …

Encore Oils, LLC – a division of SeQuential – and Ottone-Salinas, Inc. have reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reduce the risk of oils spills in the Monterey Bay watershed after Encore was found to have violated various environmental rules. The settlement includes a $31,893 …