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The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation projected Yakima River basin irrigators with junior water-rights will receive only 48% of their normal allotments, as a drought in Central Washington deepens. The ...
The Shandon-San Juan Water District said domestic well owners shouldn’t pay water use fees in the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin in San Luis Obispo County, California.
Workers stand on grating about the Hanford site K West Reactor basin to sort debris at the bottom of the 16-foot-deep pool. The work was needed to start pumping contaminated water from the basin.
Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner Jim Nash insists the treated storm-and-waste water that flows from the George W. Kuhn Retention Treatment Basin is “crystal clear.” ...
About 3:30 p.m. on Jan. 30, he called two other key water managers, California Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth and Karl Stock, the Federal Bureau of Reclamation's regional ...
A newly released government memo sheds light on how the Army Corps of Engineers responded to President Trump’s order directing federal agencies to “maximize” water deliveries in California ...
The snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, a crucial water source for the state, was 81 percent of the historic average as of Tuesday, and any storms that arrive in March could help offset the deficit.
By the time those releases ended on Sunday, water had flowed at maximum levels in rivers and canals and into retention basins, including Tulare Lake south of Hanford. The water soaked into the ...
Coachella Valley Water District’s contracted Colorado River supply, separate from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, is also used to make the basin sustainable.
One of the projects that would be helped is the Upper Kings River Water and Climate Resiliency Program. It seeks to construct new basins covering a total of 3,300 acres.