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For some Kern County farmers, overpumping groundwater could get pricey

February 15, 2022

• by Lois Henry

Farmers in the sprawling Semitropic Water Storage District in the northwest corner of Kern County got a look recently at possible water charges for going over their allotted water budgets and the top amounts were eye popping. The details are still being worked out and won’t be put in place for a while, said Semitropic…

Drinking Water

Program to replace nitrate-laden drinking water moving too slowly, advocates say

February 11, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Free water deliveries have started for some San Joaquin Valley residents with nitrate contaminated wells. But advocates worry that nine months into the state’s nitrate control program, outreach has been lacking and not enough wells have been tested. The nitrate control program launched in May of 2021. It offers free water deliveries for residents whose…

Groundwater • Personalities

Boswell bulldozers allowed to stay put, blocking Kings County pipeline project

February 11, 2022

• by Lois Henry

The water fight between Kings County’s two largest growers will continue with heavy equipment intended to block a pipeline project allowed to remain in place on the Tulare Lake Canal banks. The Tulare Lake Canal Company, controlled by JG Boswell Company, moved the equipment onto the canal banks in late January to block trenching for…

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VIDEO: Water is a hot topic at the World Ag Expo in Tulare County

February 9, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Tractors, irrigation technology, harvesting machines and more tractors lined the dirt roads of the World Ag Expo in Tulare this week. The world’s largest agriculture exposition took place from February 8-10th and included more than 1,200 exhibitors. Spread across a 2.6-million-square-foot lot, the expo not only hosted tents of exhibitors showing off their products…

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VIDEO: Tractors, vendors, demos and…well…lots of tractors mark return of the World Ag Expo

February 9, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

The World Ag Expo was held in Tulare County in person this year, Feb. 8-10, after a 2-year COVID hiatus. Our video tries to capture at least some of the sights, sounds and, yes, smells of this massive annual event. …

Groundwater • Personalities

Fight over Kings County pipeline just the latest clash between water titans

February 9, 2022

• by Lois Henry

Trucks and heavy equipment emblazoned with the distinctive diamond “B” logo parked on the banks of the Tulare Lake Canal late last month weren’t sending a subtle message. The giant JG Boswell Company has little love for Sandridge Partners. Nor for the man who runs it, John Vidovich, nor for his current pipeline project that…

Groundwater • SGMA

Gov.’s proposed $40 million for farmland retirement is welcome but more needed

February 3, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

More money could be coming to California’s new farmland repurposing program. But it’s still just a drop in the bucket, according experts. In his budget summary for 2022-2023, Governor Newsom proposed an additional $40 million for the Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program, a program approved last year to pay farmers incentives for taking irrigated land out…

Rivers • SGMA

River rights battles in the San Joaquin Valley stuck in eddy

February 1, 2022

• by Lois Henry

If you’re living in excited anticipation of the next batch of legal action on several San Joaquin Valley rivers now under scrutiny by the rights division of the State Water Resources Control Board, you may want to cool your jets. That doesn’t mean absolutely nothing has been happening on the Fresno, Kings and Kern rivers….

Drought

Monthly report on Kern River watershed shows underachieving snow pack, so far

February 1, 2022

• by Lois Henry

The monthly Kern River Snow and Water Report ,compiled by a Kern River Valley water watcher, was delivered to email inboxes Feb. 1 and the news was sub par. Scott Williams, of Kernville, compiles a monthly precipitation report for the Kern River watershed from numerous publicly available sources. The report shows a roller coaster water…

Drought

Dry January keeps California in drought territory

February 1, 2022

• by DWR PRESS RELEASE

The Department of Water Resources did its second snow survey of the season and while the news isn’t terrible, it isn’t great either. Here is DWR’s press release: The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the second snow survey of the season at Phillips Station. Following a dry January, the manual survey recorded 48.5…

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For some Kern County farmers, overpumping groundwater could get pricey

Program to replace nitrate-laden drinking water moving too slowly, advocates say

Boswell bulldozers allowed to stay put, blocking Kings County pipeline project

VIDEO: Water is a hot topic at the World Ag Expo in Tulare County

VIDEO: Tractors, vendors, demos and…well…lots of tractors mark return of the World Ag Expo

Fight over Kings County pipeline just the latest clash between water titans

Gov.’s proposed $40 million for farmland retirement is welcome but more needed

River rights battles in the San Joaquin Valley stuck in eddy

Monthly report on Kern River watershed shows underachieving snow pack, so far

Dry January keeps California in drought territory

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