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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has announced a new grant program that provides Los Angeles City residents with a one-time grant of up to $500 who have been financially impacted through the loss of their job or who have otherwise experienced income loss in their household due …

Cham-Cal Engineering Co. and Western Avenue Associates, L.P. have been slapped with a $1.14 million penalty by the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board for failing to comply with a 2016 Cleanup and Abatement Order. Cham-Cal, the operator and owner of a facility in Garden Grove that manufactures commercial …

The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize competition to improve public safety around canals throughout the United States. Reclamation maintains approximately 8,000 miles of canals in the Western United States and more than 1,000 of those miles are in urban areas. These canals in urban areas have higher …

The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board recently announced a settlement has been reached with the city of Mount Shasta regarding an Administrative Civil Liability complaint for multiple sanitary sewer overflows from its collection system and for violating effluent limitations at its wastewater treatment plant. Under the terms of …

Earlier this week the board of directors for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California unanimously reelected Gloria D. Gray as chairwoman. She will begin her second two-year term on Jan. 1, 2021. Gray has represented West Basin Municipal Water District on Metropolitan’s board since 2009 and was first elected by …

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order earlier this week that formally establishes an interagency Water Subcabinet seeking to modernize water management and infrastructure. The order titled “The Executive Order on Modernizing America’s Water Resource Management and Water Infrastructure,” promotes water infrastructure projects and lists water supply and storage among top …