Eastern Tule News Today

Two San Joaquin Valley water districts voted to break away from the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency this month, clearing a path for them to form their own agencies and groundwater plans in the next six months.

The California State Water Resources Control Board is in the midst of determining whether the Tule Subbasin should be placed on probationary status after claiming local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies submitted

Decades of land subsidence caused by unregulated and continued groundwater overdraft have caused the Friant-Kern Canal, which is a 152-mile gravity fed canal, to sink as much as 14 feet

The state is sending millions to farmers throughout the San Joaquin Valley to keep water in the ground.  The money, paid through the LandFlex program, goes to groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) and then directly to

Groundwater limits and fees netted $11 million in 2021 from Tulare Co. farmers. Most of that money will pay a share to fix the sagging Friant-Kern Canal. The rest will pay for projects to stem the groundwater free fall that sank the canal in the first place.

A critic of three Westlands Solar Park projects in Kings County ended up withdrawing an appeal from the Board of Supervisors recently that had claimed Westlands would not certify they

How hefty could be decided by their payment choice. A longer term payment option would be $200 million. But a lump sum option could cost only $125 million, a 37.5% discount, according to a proposed settlement agreement between the Eastern Tule Groundwater Sustainability Agency and the Friant Water Authority. The agreement was approved by Friant Dec. 11. It is expected to go to the Eastern Tule GSA board for final consideration on Jan. 7, 2021, according to Rogelio Caudillo, General Manager of E...

Christmas appeared to come early for California water interests with more than $1 billion in federal funding for a variety of projects packed into the recent federal funding bill that