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San Diego Water Authority Gets $500K In Grants For Water Projects

/in , /by /Patch (New York)

Three San Diego County projects to improve water supply reliability received a total of $500,000 in grant funding from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the San Diego County Water Authority announced Monday. The county received funding for new seawater intake screens at the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, brackish water optimization and integrated planning in the San Dieguito River watershed and new water treatment technology at the East County Advanced Water Treatment Project.

 

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OPINION: New leaders On Monterey Peninsula Must Finish The Job On Water Project

/in , /by /Monterey Heraldby Bill Kampe, Ralph Rubio and Jerry Edelen

In September of 2018, a busload of local citizens traveled to San Francisco to support approval of our local desalination plant by the California Public Utilities Commission. Included among the supporters were local elected officials, representatives of labor, environmental, housing and business organizations, and people from the community at large. The one thing all these people had in common was the understanding that an adequate and drought-proof water supply is a necessity for a thriving community.

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City, SDG&E In $120 million Disagreement

/in , /by /10 Newsby Jonathan Horn

San Diego Gas and Electric and the city of San Diego are in a disagreement that could be worth up to $120 million. The controversy is over San Diego’s Pure Water project, which would turn sewage into high treated drinking water. The city’s goal is to have a third of its water supply be reclaimed water by 2035.  To accomplish that, the city plans to build a $1 billion pipeline to pump sewage from the Morena area to the North City Water Reclamation Plant on the edge of Miramar.

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President Trump Approves Funding For Water Projects That Could Mean More California Reservoirs

/in , /by /Capital Public Radio (Sacramento)by Ezra David Romero

President Donald Trump signed a bipartisan infrastructure bill this week that could lead to raising the Shasta Dam and funding other reservoir projects. The plan is to spend $6 billion throughout the country over 10 years. The president says the funding will go toward ports, reducing flood risk, restorying ecosystems and performing upkeep on waterways — “which are in deep, deep trouble, but they won’t be for very long,” Trump added.

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Family-Owned Firm Completes Final Project For Water Agency

/in , /by /The Daily Transcriptby Mark Armao

During the past 60 years, Vista-based L.H. Woods & Sons, Inc. has executed dozens of contracts for upgrades to the pipelines that convey water throughout San Diego County. The family-owned company was recently honored by the San Diego County Water Authority, following the completion of a $28 million pipe-relining project, which was Woods’ final project for the agency.

 

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OPINION: Proposition 3 Will Pay For A Multitude Of Water Needs

/in , /by /The Sacramento Beeby Jerry Meral

California needs clean, safe and reliable water supplies. We also would greatly benefit from the improved flood management Proposition 3 would provide. The measure on the Nov. 6 ballot includes $400 million to implement the Central Valley Flood Control Plan and repair Oroville Dam. Climate change is worsening the threat of floods. Sacramento is the nation’s second most flood-prone city after New Orleans. We need all the help we can get to improve our levees, widen the floodplain to accommodate higher Sacramento River flows and improve and repair upstream flood control dams such as Oroville.

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OPINION: Prop. 3 Promises More California Water Projects. Too Bad So Many Are The Wrong Projects

/in , /by /The Sacramento Bee

We must do more to protect the future of California’s water, but that doesn’t mean just pumping in more money without making sure the investments will have widespread benefits for the public. Proposition 3 – the $8.9 billion bond on the Nov. 6 ballot – fails that test. Voters should say “no.” The measure promises money for quite a few local agencies, nonprofits, private water companies and others, which is great for them. It’s not clear, however, that these are the projects that California needs most right now, or that they couldn’t get the money elsewhere.

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Big Water Moves Mark Brown’s Final Months

/in , /by /San Francisco Chronicleby Dan Walters

Nearly six decades ago, shortly after becoming governor, Pat Brown persuaded the Legislature and voters to approve one of the nation’s largest public works projects, the State Water Plan. New reservoirs in Northern California, including the nation’s highest dam at Oroville on the Feather River, would capture runoff from snowfall in the Sierra, and a miles-long aqueduct would carry water southward to San Joaquin Valley farms and fast-growing Southern California cities.

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With State Allocation Set, Sites Reservoir Officials Begin Securing More Funding

/in , /by /Appeal Democrat (Marysville)by Jake Abbott

The Sites Reservoir project will move forward, according to officials, despite being awarded in a recent California Water Commission announcement about half what project backers sought. They will spend the next few months securing the necessary financing to begin the next phase. The Commission announced Tuesday that Sites could expect $816 million in state funding. “We are pleased to reach this milestone,” said Jim Watson, general manager of the Sites Project Authority.

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California’s Largest Reservoir Project In Decades Gets An $800 Million Boost. But Is It Feasible?

/in , /by /The Sacramento Beeby Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow

California officials Tuesday awarded $816 million in voter-approved bond money to build Sites Reservoir, an hour north of Sacramento, providing a financial boost for what would become the largest water storage project built in the state since the 1970s. Approved by the State Water Commission, the funds were the most given to any of the eight projects across California under consideration for a part of the $2.7 billion Proposition 1 water bond. Voters passed the bond in 2014 during the state’s historic drought.

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