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Funding could be biggest hurdle faced by the delta tunnel as water users weigh costs versus benefits of the $16 billion project

February 26, 2024

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

The controversial Delta Conveyance Project may have bigger problems than legal action over its recently approved environmental impact report. Who’s going to pay the estimated $16 billion price tag? The concept, a tunnel to take Sacramento River water beneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to thirsty towns and farms further south, relies on the end users…

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Water continues to be a driving force in Kern ag land values – and not in a good way

January 24, 2024

• by Lois Henry

The latest report on agricultural land valuations in Kern County shows water security continues to be a driving force and the direction is mostly downward. Alliance Ag Services LLC, a brokerage and appraisal firm, has been tracking the value of farmland in Kern County by water source, or sources, for nearly two decades. For about…

Groundwater

New groundwater fee aims to create “equity” among South San Joaquin Valley farmers but some say it will unfairly devalue their farms

July 12, 2023

• by Lois Henry

A new groundwater fee intended to create “financial equity” between farmers who pay for imported water and those who don’t has stirred anger and concerns about land valuation in the Wheeler Ridge-Maricopa Water Storage District. The new “groundwater service charge” was approved Wednesday by the Wheeler Ridge board of directors. While this particular issue only…

Federal System • State System

California’s water contractors get full supply from the state and federal systems

April 20, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Water users for both the State Water Project and Central Valley Project will get a 100% allocation, agencies announced Thursday. The string of storms that battered California over the past few months have inundated the state with water and built up a record-breaking snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The extraordinary amount of water is…

Drought

Some San Joaquin Valley towns pay hefty price to keep taps flowing

October 15, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

–California’s crippling three-year drought is revealing the unique water vulnerabilities of small towns across the San Joaquin Valley. And while the state has stepped in to help impoverished communities and residents whose wells have gone dry due to plummeting groundwater levels, the handful of towns on the valley’s west side that rely on surface supplies…

Drought

Bomb cylone? Thanks….what else ya got?

October 27, 2021

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water reporting intern

The west coast was slammed Oct. 24-25 by a bomb cyclone, a historic storm that dumped record breaking levels of precipitation on much of California. The rain came from long streams of moisture called atmospheric rivers. San Francisco recorded more than four inches of rain on October 24, the most for a single October day…

NEWS

Funding could be biggest hurdle faced by the delta tunnel as water users weigh costs versus benefits of the $16 billion project

Water continues to be a driving force in Kern ag land values – and not in a good way

New groundwater fee aims to create “equity” among South San Joaquin Valley farmers but some say it will unfairly devalue their farms

California’s water contractors get full supply from the state and federal systems

Some San Joaquin Valley towns pay hefty price to keep taps flowing

Bomb cylone? Thanks….what else ya got?

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