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Grant to pay for long-term solution ideas to fix recurring water problems in rural Tulare County communities

March 19, 2024

• by Lisa McEwen, SJV Water

Heads up to creative consultants interested in finding long-term solutions to stubborn drinking water problems in small, rural communities such as Teviston and Allensworth: Tulare County has a grant for you. Tulare County is offering a $371,000 contract for a consultant or consultants to use in finding long-term fixes to wells that routinely dry up…

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New administrator assigned to help with Teviston’s water woes

August 23, 2023

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

The state has assigned an engineering company to take control of, and improve, the water system in the small Tulare County town of Teviston. Teviston, a rural community of about 460 people, has been hard hit by water problems for years. The town well broke down in the drought of 2021, leaving families without water…

Drinking Water • Drought

Even emergency water suppliers are close to tapped out as more valley towns go dry

July 19, 2022

• by Jesse Vad, SJV Water

Groundwater levels are dropping and domestic wells throughout the San Joaquin Valley are going dry as California’s third year of drought grinds on. That includes entire towns, such as East Orosi and Tooleville in Tulare County, which both went dry last week. It’s bad. But it may get worse. Area water suppliers are “locking down”…

Drinking Water • Drought

Drought outpaces plans to fix failing drinking water systems

August 18, 2021

• by Jesse Vad and Lois Henry

This story was produced with funding and support from Fresnoland, for the Fresno Bee. Republishing is encouraged 48 hours after initial posting. A lot has happened over the past five years, but not much has changed in the tiny farmworker town of Okieville. Wells went dry enmasse in Tulare County, including in Okieville, during the last…

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Grant to pay for long-term solution ideas to fix recurring water problems in rural Tulare County communities

New administrator assigned to help with Teviston’s water woes

Even emergency water suppliers are close to tapped out as more valley towns go dry

Drought outpaces plans to fix failing drinking water systems

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