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For the tenth consecutive year Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District (EVMWD) has earned recognition from the Public Relations Society of America, Inland Empire Chapter (PRSA-IE) for their outstanding communications efforts. This year EVMWD was honored with four awards for excellence in public outreach. EVMWD received the Polaris, the highest honors …

Paso Robles recently celebrated the completion of the new Tertiary Treatment Facilities at its wastewater treatment plant. Black & Veatch served as designer and engineer of record for both the secondary treatment project and the tertiary treatment project heralded as one of the largest, most complex infrastructure projects in the …

Built between 1949 and 1951, the Friant-Kern Canal is the state’s 152-mile Central Valley Project (CVP) aqueduct managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation that brings water to the fertile farm fields in the Central Valley. Now, however, the Reclamation is seeking public input about its plan to restore …

The initial 2020 State Water Project (SWP) allocation was announced Monday by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR).  DWR’s allocations are based on conservative assumptions and may change depending on rain and snow received throughout the winter. The state’s initial allocation is set intentionally low so as to guard …

Development in the 20th century destroyed much of the Upper Truckee Marsh, the largest wetland in the Lake Tahoe Basin, through dredging and filling, and channelizing the Upper Truckee River as it nears Lake Tahoe. But the California Tahoe Conservancy (CTC) is set to begin restoration of the Marsh next …

After serving for eight months as the acting general manager of the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA), Sandra L. Kerl has been appointed as the new general manager of the water agency following a national search by the SDCWA’s Board of Directors (BOD). The water agency’s BOD approved Kerl’s …