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The Leaky Acres Recharge Facility is a groundwater recharge facility located in Fresno, California. The facility began as a joint research project by the City of Fresno water division and the US Department of Agriculture. It first began percolating water in 1971 and was subsequently expanded and duplicated in other areas of the city.
Brock Buche, director of public utilities for the city, told council members that Fresno has a standing contract for up to 60,000 acre-feet of water each year; the actual amount that the city gets ...
1983 Oct 2 - Republicans moves away from conservation on Central Valley water [472] ... Rank, 372 U.S. 609 (1963) Friant Dam Water Rights; 1963 City of Fresno v ...
As streams have dried up, farmers have turned to groundwater, [32] but this quickly depleted the aquifers that supply the city of Fresno, to the point where the land began to sag. [33] In the 80 years that the city of Fresno has used groundwater as a water source, the water level has dropped from 30 feet below the surface to 128 feet in 2009.
The city of Fresno in 2007 filed a lawsuit against several large oil and chemical companies alleging that their products were responsible for contaminating water wells with the toxic chemical TCP.
The bulk of the wells drying up in Central California, so far, are in the Fresno and Madera areas, according to an analysis. Extreme heat straining water wells in Fresno, Madera counties. ‘Not a ...
[3] In July 2016, the City expanded its investigation to up to 15,000 homes and determined the discolored water problem appeared related to galvanized pipe or fixture corrosion within the area served by the Northeast Fresno Surface Water Treatment Facility, either receiving treated surface water alone or some combination of surface water and ...
There is the Tranquillity project, spanning 3,500 acres on Fresno County’s west side and generating 400 megawatts. That much can power almost 300,000 homes. Not far away is the Scarlet Solar ...