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Valley governments receiving federal funds through the American Rescue Plan Act are taking different paths to use the money appropriately. The act, passed in March, includes $350 billion for state, local, territorial and tribal governments to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. There are four main objectives for the funds; urgent pandemic response to slow the spread of the disease, replace lost revenue for governments, urgent economic stability for households and business, and addressing systemic issues that have contributed to unequal impacts of the pandemic. Between Kings County, Hanford an...

The Lemoore City Council ratified an emergency declaration and got an update on an explosion which killed one and destroyed a water tank last week during a special session Monday. The June 21 explosion dumped 1.5 million gallons of water, threw a water tank 70 feet in the air, and caused a wave which took out solar panels, communication with the pump station and killed contractor Dion Jones, a 41-year-old father of three. The council passed the declaration 4-0, with Mayor Jared Lyons absent from the special session. The tank that ruptured in Lemoore held 1.5 million gallons of water. ...

I’m not going to pretend the Well Station 7 collapse is no big deal, even in comparison to COVID-19 and the cycles of drought. But I will say that the

Jun. 24—As the City of Lemoore reels from the West Hills tank explosion, City Manager Nathan Olson went over some of the work that needs to be done to get the well site back online — which he hopes to make happen by the end of next week. On Monday afternoon, contractors were attempting to weld a flange onto a water tank at the Station 7 Water Facility Complex (or Well Site 7) across the street ...

A mechanical failure led to the rupture of a 1.5 million-gallon water tank across the road West Hills College Lemoore, resulting in the death of a contractor and the injury of a city employee and has prompted the City to issue a state of emergency. According to Lemoore City Manager Nathan Olson, the contractor was trying to weld a new flange, on the tank at Well Site No.7 on Monday afternoon. The tank had about four to six feet of air inside of it at the top but had been vented. However, something inside the tank ignited, causing an explosion. “When the tank ignited, the tank literally l...