The Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant in San Pedro has recently undergone a $50 million expansion, effectively doubling the plant’s capacity to treat its original six million gallons to 12 million gallons. The plant’s increased production is being heralded as a way to assist the Los Angeles area grow its …
Read More »FEMA funds approved by President Trump for California’s water disasters
As California faces another round of February’s rain and snow, legislators, emergency service personnel and the general public are expressing thanks to President Trump for his recent disaster declarations enabling federal funding to assist with the damage and evacuations from to the Oroville Dam disaster as well as the damage …
Read More »Beale Air Force Base officials report Miller, Upper Blackwelder earthen dams weakening
The gaping hole In Oroville’s dam spillway is not the only damage to dams throughout the state due to the deluge of rain being experienced throughout most of the state. Beale Air Force Base in Yuba County is reporting, via social media, that nearby Miller and Upper Blackwelder’s earthen dams …
Read More »Draft Environmental Document for Fremont Weir Adult Fish Passage Modification Project
Documents were released late last week by the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) for public review of the draft Initial Study and Environmental Assessment (IS/EA) for the proposed Fremont Weir Adult Fish Passage Modification Project. The project, located in the northern portion of …
Read More »Tri-Valley agencies initiate 18-month construction plan to expand water recycling plant
Representatives of the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD), East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD), and the city of Pleasanton congregated earlier this week to kick-off the beginning of an 18-month construction project to expand the Jeffrey G. Hansen Water Recycling Plant in Pleasanton. The expansion is anticipated to increase …
Read More »Trump transition’s infrastructure priority list includes So. Cal’s Cadiz Water Conveyance Project
According to documents obtained by McClatchy’s Kansas City Star and The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) President Trump’s transition team reportedly compiled a list of 50 potential infrastructure projects across the country that could be targeted in his campaign-promised proposal to update the country’s aging infrastructure. Included in the list is Southern California’s Cadiz Valley …
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