District investing millions in infrastructure projects to make it happen Western provides nearly 29 billion gallons of water each year to customers in western Riverside County. Many may not realize that most of that water is imported from Northern California and the Colorado River. Because it must travel so far, …
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Riverside County’s Western Municipal Water District (WMWD) recently began construction on an 18-month project for a new pump station as part of a five-year, $75 million infrastructure plan. The construction of the Sterling Pump Station will ultimately connect with the La Sierra Pipeline, a five-mile pipeline project also under construction. …
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Three California water districts in a collaborative water supply reliability vision recently announced the formation of a public agency that will be charged with overseeing design and construction of the California Waterfix. Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, along with the Santa Clara Valley Water District and the Zone 7 …
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Repairs to a portion of the California Aqueduct near Gustine in Merced County have been delayed due to a rupture in a water-filled cofferdam that was used to divert water for construction activities. The Department of Water Resources, (DWR) will be installing rock-filled cofferdams instead. Once the new cofferdams are …
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Citing substantially changed circumstances, the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) Board of Directors voted 4-3 yesterday to now support the California WaterFix project. Yesterday’s vote reverses the vote taken by the SCVWD Board last October. Although the October 17 decision offered the water district’s conditional support of the state’s …
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A recently completed 1.5-million-gallon recycled water storage tank along with two new distribution pumps and other energy efficiency improvements were the focus of a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (PVWMA), the city of Watsonville and its Public Works and Utilities personnel plus officials from Santa …
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