Michelle Reimers, Turlock Irrigation District’s (TID) current assistant general manager of External Affairs, has recently been select by the irrigation district’s Board of Director to serve as TID’s next general manager, effective Jan. 2, 2020. Reimers will the seventh general manager in TID’s history succeeding Casey Hashimoto. “The Board believes …
Read More »Santa Clarita Valley Water Shares Disaster Plans for Short and Long-Term Emergencies
In light of the many fires and other disaster events in California, plus the ever-evolving realities of climate change, Santa Clarita Valley Water (SCVW) has reviewed its operational plan in the event of an emergency and recently shared it with the district’s customers. A seven-point plan has been developed should …
Read More »New Office Manager Appointed for Reclamation’s Central Valley Operations Office
Kristin White has been appointed as operations manager for the Bureau of Reclamation’s California-Great Basin Region’s Central Valley Operations (CVO) office in Sacramento. White will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day water and power operations of Reclamation’s Central Valley Project (CVP), one of the world’s premier water storage and delivery …
Read More »Has UC Riverside-led Team’s Discovery Found Hope for Crops Despite Frequently Occurring Drought?
Moving forward, has the game changed for farmers to keep plants plump and thriving in spite of droughts? A University of California (UC) Riverside-led team thinks they may have found one way to help plants hold onto water via a chemical discovery, which could result in thwarting the massive annual …
Read More »City of Paso Robles Completes New Tertiary Treatment Facilities at Wastewater Treatment Plant
The city of Paso Robles recently celebrated the completion of one of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in the city’s history. A ribbon-cutting ceremony and facility tours were held to mark the opening of the new Tertiary Treatment Facilities at the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant. Paso Robles, with …
Read More »Illegal Cannabis Grows Poison Water Sources; Statewide Eradication Campaign Nets 953,459 Plants
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced earlier this week that the statewide Campaign Against Marijuana Planting (CAMP), a multi-agency law enforcement task force managed by the California Department of Justice, has thus far this year eradicated 953,459 illegal marijuana plants from 345 grow sites across the state. The CAMP operations …
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