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California to Friant-Kern Canal: “No $ for you!”

August 24, 2020

• by Lois Henry

Any hope that California might kick in money to fix the sagging Friant-Kern Canal was killed Thursday when a bill that would have provided $400 million toward the effort was stripped of all funding. The bill, SB 559 by State Sen. Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, had been stuck in the suspense file (a kind of legislative…

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SoCal water managers want to know who – exactly – is sinking the California Aqueduct

February 21, 2020

• by Lois Henry

A state report released in December pinned blame for sinking along the California Aqueduct on excessive nearby groundwater pumping to irrigate vineyards and nut orchards. That was a pretty pointed finger, but not pointed enough for some committee directors in the large and powerful Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They wanted names. The issue…

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Nuts getting a bad rap for sinking the California Aqueduct

February 6, 2020

• by Lois Henry

State water officials are blaming almond and pistachio orchards for sinking the California Aqueduct before all the evidence is in, according to one western Kern County water district manager. “They need to do more homework,” said Jason Gianquinto, General Manager of the Semitropic Water Storage District. “It’s easy to say, ‘Hey, this area is subsiding…

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California to Friant-Kern Canal: “No $ for you!”

SoCal water managers want to know who – exactly – is sinking the California Aqueduct

Nuts getting a bad rap for sinking the California Aqueduct

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