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Westlands Water District is a water district in central California, a local-government entity formed in 1952, that holds long-term contracts for water supplied by the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project . It is the largest agricultural water district in the United States by irrigable acres and provides water primarily ...
The makeup of the Westlands Water District board will change this election — shifting power to a coalition of growers with a list of new actions, at the top of which appears to be ousting ...
Westlands itself has sold 15,000 acres of land due to water supply constraints. Instead of crops, solar projects have gone in. There is the Tranquillity project, spanning 3,500 acres on Fresno ...
The Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge was an artificial wetland environment, created using agricultural runoff from farmland in California 's Central Valley . The irrigation water is transported to the valley from sources in the Sierra Nevada via the California Aqueduct. Minerals from these sources are carried in the water and concentrated by ...
That will capture 130,000 acre-feet of new water — some of which will flow to Valley farmers as part of the Central Valley Project. Among those to get supplied is the Westlands Water District ...
The Westlands Solar Park is large-scale solar power project in Kings County south of Fresno, California. It intends to build many photovoltaic power plants with a capacity totaling upwards of 2,000 megawatts (MW), [1] [2] larger than the world's largest photovoltaic power plants operating as of 2017. It will be constructed on brownfield land ...
In 2015 Humboldt County won a lawsuit against the Westlands Water District for an extra 50,000 acre-feet (62,000,000 m 3) of water from the Trinity River for in-stream flows. Previously, the Bureau of Reclamation had included this sum in the water released for fishery management.
Jim Guy. November 23, 2022 at 10:20 PM. Fresno Bee file. Thomas Birmingham, general manager of the massive Westlands Water District since 2000, Wednesday announced plans to step down at the end of ...