{"id":18586,"date":"2023-06-09T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T22:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2023-06-10T09:54:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T16:54:03","slug":"drought-and-flooding-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/drought-and-flooding-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"California announces $288 million for drought and flood projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"$288<\/p>\n

The Governor Gavin Newsom<\/a> The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has announced an $8.5 billion investment to conserve, store and deliver more water to communities across the state, and announced $288 million for drought and flood projects in California to help meet water goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department of Water Resources (DWR), through its Urban Community Drought Relief Grant program, has awarded more than $217 million to 44 projects that will help communities strengthen their resilience to drought and better prepare for future dry conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n

That, the governor said, will help advance efforts outlined in the strategy to adapt California's water supply to the prospects of a warmer, drier future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Investments focus on flood risk management and groundwater recharge, improving water supply reliability, water recycling, and water conservation and landscape transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n

In San Joaquin County, the Stockton East Water District will receive $12.2 million to divert water from the New Hogan Reservoir for groundwater recharge and drinking water purposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in Fresno County, the City of Fresno will receive $5.2 million to make improvements to the existing Leaky Acres Basin to maximize surface water capture during flood events.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works will receive $10.5 million to strengthen and remove sediment from the Santa Anita Dam, providing additional storage capacity for groundwater recharge downstream at the Santa Anita Spreading Grounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The project will increase the county's stormwater recharge capacity by adding more than 2,000 acre-feet of new stormwater resources to the groundwater basin annually.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Ventura County, the Casitas Municipal Water District will receive $3.6 million to develop a deep extraction well to provide approximately 8,000 additional acre-feet per year of new water supply. Additionally, in Santa Clara County, the City of Morgan Hill will receive $4 million to construct a new 850,000-gallon above-ground steel water supply reservoir.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Santa Cruz County, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District will receive $4.5 million to replace nine leaking water storage tanks with six fire-rated steel tanks, significantly increasing the district's current storage capacity from 160,000 to 720,000 gallons.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Fresno County, the Fresno Unified School District will receive $540,000 to support two projects benefiting a local elementary and middle school to irrigate with recycled water. In Alameda County, the Zone 7 Water Agency will receive $300,000 to build an automated, self-serve recycled water filling station to provide a year-round, permanent water source for irrigation and other uses for many residents with extended business hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power will receive $4.5 million to upgrade the Dominguez Gap seawater intrusion barrier to use 100 percent recycled water.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, in San Bernardino County, the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District will receive $2.6 million to install water-efficient fixtures in single-family and multi-family homes in selected disadvantaged community areas to improve indoor water efficiency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The district will also replace turf with drought-tolerant landscaping in homeowner association areas and mobile home parks to reduce outdoor water use.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Stanislaus County, the City of Modesto will receive $2.3 million to replace 17.79 acres of nonfunctional turf with drought-tolerant landscaping in 21 parks for an estimated water savings of more than 54 acre-feet per year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California will receive $30 million to implement a turf replacement program available to all of its member agencies serving a total of 19 million Californians, and will save up to 4,050 acre-feet of water per year by converting approximately 30 million square feet of nonfunctional turf to water-efficient landscaping.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, in May, the Administration dedicated $71 million to address drinking water shortages, species protection, and populations particularly affected by drought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You may be interested in:<\/strong> California allocates about $200 million to protect people from extreme heat<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El gobernador Gavin Newsom ha adelantado una inversi\u00f3n por 8.5 mil millones de d\u00f3lares para conservar, almacenar y entregar m\u00e1s agua a las comunidades del estado, adem\u00e1s de anunciar 288 millones de d\u00f3lares para proyectos de sequ\u00eda e inundaciones en California que permitan alcanzar las metas h\u00eddricas. Y es que, el Departamento de Recursos H\u00eddricos […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-habitat"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18588,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions\/18588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}