…The legislation advances efforts to provide common sense Congressional direction on the application of the Endangered Species Act to the operations of the CVP and SWP and a roadmap for…
State Water Project Allocation Boosted
…for the date. Shasta Lake north of Redding, California’s and the federal Central Valley Project’s (CVP) largest reservoir, was holding 2,138,566 acre-feet, 47 percent of its 4.5 million acre-foot capacity…
Snowpack’s Water Content Far Greater than One Year Ago
…its December 30 average. Lake Shasta north of Redding and the federal Central Valley Project’s (CVP) largest reservoir now holds 1.4 MAF, 31 percent of its 4.55 million acre-foot capacity…
Court Denies Motion to Enjoin Releases to the Klamath River
…disappointed. This began on Friday, August 21, 2015, when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced plans to release up to 88,000 acre-feet of CVP water from Trinity Reservoir in the…
Fresno County Farm Bureau Issues Statement on Water Supply for County’s Federal Water Contractors
…that bring back into balance water allocated for food production, municipal and rural communities, the economy and the environment.” Background: The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a federal water management…
CFBF Leader on Water Shortage, CVP Zero Allocation
…projects authorized by the Proposition 1 water bond and on congressional reform of environmental laws. “The CVP announcement is both saddening and maddening,” Wenger said. “It’s saddening because the continued…
Farm Bureau Encourages House and Senate to Work Together on Water Legislation
…protections for invasive fish species; restore certainty for Central Valley Project water supply contracts; facilitate water transfers; establish a stakeholder oversight panel for the CVP Restoration Fund; strengthen requirements to…
Statement of Westlands Water District on California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014
…Project (CVP) and the California State Water Project (SWP). The legislation introduced today would provide much needed relief for the public water agencies that receive water from these projects and…
FID Facilitates Emergency Banking To Provide Dry-Year Water For Small Valley Cities, Towns
…communities’ principal Central Valley Project supply source may largely dry up. FID was asked recently by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials to bank a small amount of CVP water –…
DWR Drops State Water Project Allocation to Zero, Seeks to Preserve Remaining Supplies
…(55 percent of its historical average for the date). Shasta Lake north of Redding, California’s and the federal Central Valley Project’s (CVP) largest reservoir, is at 36 percent of its…
CA Lawmakers Urge Reclamation to Maintain Rescheduled Water
…that the United States Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) is considering reversing its long-held policy related to the use of rescheduled water in order to meet other Central Valley Project (CVP)…
Water Series: CVP at 75 Percent
…when needed most, low water allocations for CVP contractors, challenges managing Delta salinity and early increases in reservoir releases. The CVP provides irrigation water critical to about 3 million acres…
Judge Says Water Right Fee is Invalid
…made available under CVP contracts, and that the board had charged “arbitrary” fees to other permit holders. Since the water right fee was first imposed, Farm Bureau has urged holders…
CA Farm Bureau On Water Shortage
…farm water supplies delivered through the CVP Friant Unit. “Our water prices have been steadily going up as supplies have become more uncertain,” said Cosyns, who is a Madera Irrigation…