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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Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander is looking to launch a pilot project to establish “floating solar” panels on Los Angeles reservoirs in an effort to test the feasibility of these environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient projects. Fifty percent of the electricity used by retail sellers and publicly owned utilities will be …
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The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) has announced the completion of major retrofit to Riverside County’s Perris Dam. The recently completed work will reduce seismic risk to the dam which was originally constructed from 1970 to 1973. “DWR used state-of-the-art engineering techniques to modernize this dam as part of …
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By JIM STEINBERG The California Department of Water Resources has updated its 2018 Lake Oroville Operations Plan to begin construction as soon as possible this spring and submitted those updates to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the California Division of Safety of Dams for approval. With inflows into Lake …
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