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In June 2022, the County GSA held Proposition 218 elections to set fees in the Madera, Delta-Mendota and Chowchilla subbasins. Chowchilla landowners voted them down.
July 24 - The Madera Irrigation District starts the Madera dam project on San Joaquin River which later becomes Friant Dam [67] July 27 - California representative protests Nevada's plan to take Lake Tahoe water [68] July 28 - 800,000 acres of Miller-Lux land and water rights to be subdivided and sold to small farmers [69]
The Madera Canal is a 35.9 mi (57.8 km)-long aqueduct in the U.S. state of California. It is part of the Central Valley Project managed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation to convey water north to augment irrigation capacity in Madera County .
In the United States an irrigation district is a cooperative, self-governing public corporation set up as a subdivision of the State government, with definite geographic boundaries, organized, and having taxing power to obtain and distribute water for irrigation of lands within the district; created under the authority of a State legislature with the consent of a designated fraction of the ...
South San Joaquin Irrigation District; Swalley Irrigation District; T. Truckee–Carson Irrigation District; W. Westlands Water District
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 ...
California made an amendment to the Wright Act in 1897, which stopped new irrigation districts from being formed. [2] The Irrigation District Bond Certification Commission, which was created in 1913, is now responsible for forming new irrigation districts. [3] These irrigation districts are public entities. [4]
New Exchequer Dam is a concrete–faced, rock-fill dam on the Merced River in central California in the United States.It forms Lake McClure, which impounds the river for irrigation and hydroelectric power production and has a capacity of more than 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3).