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Project to reduce groundwater pumping near Friant-Kern Canal – damaged by excessive pumping – gets underway

A groundbreaking ceremony in southern Tulare County last week signaled the start of another chapter in the long and expensive effort to fix the sinking Friant-Kern Canal.  Construction began on five new Friant Water Authority pump stations that will lift water out of the canal and into Tea Pot Dome Water District and Saucelito Irrigation […]

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