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Although the Bureau of Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) are still several months away from holding public meetings to further inform the public of the dam safety project at B.F. Sisk Dam and San Luis Reservoir, located between Los Banos and Gilroy. DWR operates the Reclamation-owned …

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 …

Although the Foster City levee improvement project is a year behind its original timeline, City Manager Jeff C. Moneda issued a press release late last week that shared the news of receiving an approved required permit from the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) for construction of the …

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) recently released its list of nominees for the 2020 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (OCEA) award and the list includes the Oroville Dam rebuild. The only other California engineering projected of the list of Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement projects is the Salesforce Tower in …

The Soquel Creek Water District (SCWD) is celebrating the recent unanimous approval of a $50 million Prop 1 State Grant that was approved by the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) at their Nov. 19 meeting in Sacramento for the district’s Pure Water Soquel Groundwater Replenishment and Seawater Intrusion Prevention …