On the 24th anniversary of the Northridge earthquake, elected officials and representatives from the Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) and the California State Water Resources Control Board gathered for the groundbreaking for a $92 million project to clean up and restore the use of groundwater as a safe, …
Read More »Community water systems advised mandatory lead sampling now in effect for public schools
Community water systems throughout California have been notified by the State Water Resources Control Board that lead sampling of all public schools drinking water must be completed by July 1, 2019 for schools built before 2010. Assembly Bill (AB) 746 – originally introduced by Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-District …
Read More »Dow/Shell Oil settles with city of Bakersfield for TCP water contamination
San Mateo County Superior Court Case No. CIV 470999 – California Water Service and the city of Bakersfield vs. The Dow Chemical Company – has been recently settled regarding the contamination of the city’s water by fumigant manufactured by Dow/Shell Oil which contained 1,2,3 trichloropropane (TCP). Under the settlement terms, …
Read More »Additional findings released in Lake Oroville Spillways incident
On the heels of preliminary findings and an interim memorandum – both released last year – in the Lake Oroville Spillways incident, the Independent Forensic Team (IFT) released additional findings late last week from its review of the February 2017 incident. In addition to identifying the combined causes that led …
Read More »Reclamation awards $4.9 million contract to Systems Integrated for Colorado River Storage
The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $4.9 million contract to Systems Integrated on Jan. 2 for a five-phase project to replace and modernize existing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems in order to further standardize Reclamation’s system architectures between its Upper and Lower Colorado Regions. This is regarded …
Read More »Los Angeles Department of Water and Power delays two-month testing of well due to low snowpack
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) had planned to begin a two-month testing of a well in the Owens Valley that was overhauled in 2014. However, the low snowpack in the Eastern Sierra has caused LADWP’s water managers to scrap these plans with hopes to conduct the …
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