A study released Wednesday by the University of the Pacific’s (UOP) Center for Business and Policy Research says new research indicates that the state’s proposed California WaterFix would cost more to build that it would deliver in return. “This is the first comprehensive benefit-cost analysis of WaterFix and it is …
Read More »Los Angeles stormwater capture expanded at Tujunga Spreading Grounds Enhancement Project
A regional collaboration between the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works is making possible the expansion of the Tujunga Spreading Grounds which will effectively double the amount of stormwater capture at the facility. The …
Read More »Environmentalists to sue Colton, San Bernardino for imperiling Santa Ana sucker fish
The Center for Biological Diversity, the Sierra Club and the San Bernardino Valley Audubon Society have filed a 60-day “notice of intent to sue” alleging the cities of Colton and San Bernardino and their Regional Tertiary Treatment and Water Reclamation Authority have allowed the plant to repeatedly strand and kill …
Read More »Water flows in East Porterville for the first time in three years
For residents of East Porterville clean, potable water running through their pipes and out the spigots has been a memory, a dream and a frustration for the past three years. But, beginning last Friday, that has begun to change for residents, one household at a time. During the 2011-12 legislative …
Read More »Reclamation and El Dorado Irrigation District announce contract for water from Folsom Reservoir
The Bureau of Reclamation and the Placerville -area El Dorado Irrigation District (EID) recently announced they have entered into a Warren Act contract for 17,000 acre-feet per year of EID’s Project 184 supplies/Water Rights Permit 21112 from Folsom Reservoir. The contract is the result of EID’s 25-year effort to secure …
Read More »Two Water Infrastructure Funding Fairs remain for 2016; next one set for August 23 in Alhambra
A free California Financing Coordinating Committee (CFCC) Funding Fair will be held Tuesday, August 23, in Alhambra, hosted by the State Water Resources Control Board and its six partner agencies. Following the Alhambra funding fair only one other such event will be held this calendar year. The last 2016 funding …
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