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FRIANT WATER AUTHORITY MEMBER DIRECTORY 1. CHOWCHILLA WATER DISTRICT 12. ORANGE COVE IRRIGATION DISTRICT 22. LINDMORE IRRIGATION DISTRICT www.aewsd.org www.orangecoveid.org www.lindmoreid.com F 85,000 acres | 400 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 C F 28,000 acres | 650 M&I, 400 ag. landowners | Class 1 C F 27,250 acres | 475 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 2. MADERA IRRIGATION DISTRICT 13. CITY OF ORANGE COVE 23. PORTERVILLE IRRIGATION DISTRICT The Friant Division www.madera-id.org www.cityoforangecove.com C F 16,900 acres | 90 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 F 131,612 acres | 473 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 C 1,000 acres | 9,100 residents | Class 1 24. TEA POT DOME WATER DISTRICT of the 3. GRAVELLY FORD WATER DISTRICT 14. STONE CORRAL IRRIGATION DISTRICT C 3,350 acres | 95 ag. landowners | Class 1 8,400 acres | 20 ag. landowners | Class 2 C 6,500 acres | 100 ag. landowners | Class 1 25. LOWER TULE RIVER IRRIGATION DISTRICT 4. MADERA COUNTY (HIDDEN LAKES ESTATE) 15. IVANHOE IRRIGATION DISTRICT www.ltrid.org Clifton Court Forebay 154 acres | 54 homes | Class 1 C 11,000 acres | 157 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 C 100,000 acres | 300 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 Central Valley Project Jones 5. FRESNO COUNTY WATERWORKS DISTRICT #18 16. EXETER IRRIGATION DISTRICT 26. TERRA BELLA IRRIGATION DISTRICT Pumping Plant www.waterworksdist18.com www.exeterid.org C F 14,000 acres | 1,800 M&I, 600 ag. landowners | Class 1 Banks 443 acres | 244 M&I connections | Class 1 C 15,000 acres | 332 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 Pumping 27. SAUCELITO IRRIGATION DISTRICT Plant Ca S 6. GARFIELD WATER DISTRICT 17. LEWIS CREEK WATER DISTRICT 21,000 acres | 80 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 li a C F fo n rn Jo ia a C 1,700 acres | 114 ag. landowners | Class 1 C 1,228 acres | 9 ag. landowners | Class 1 D q A e u q lt i 28. DELANO-EARLIMART IRRIGATION DISTRICT u a n e - R d i u M v 7. INTERNATIONAL WATER DISTRICT 18. KAWEAH DELTA WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT www.deid.org c e t e r n 700 acres | One family-owned farm | Class 1 www.kdwcd.com 56,600 acres | 400 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 d r C C e o v t i a R 340,000 acres | 4,500 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 C F C n a i u 8. CITY OF FRESNO SERVICE AREA 29. KERN-TULARE WATER DISTRICT n q a a l MC www.fresno.gov 19. CITY OF LINDSAY WATER SERVICE AREA www.wakc.com 4 o J n 90,000 acres | 135,000 M&I connections | Class 1 www.lindsay.ca.us 20,082 acres | 91 ag. landowners | Class 2 CWD Sa C F C F 1 Ma Millerton de C 1,500 acres | 11,800 residents & businesses | Class 1 ra Lake Ca 9. FRESNO IRRIGATION DISTRICT 30. SOUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT na l 5 FCW #18 S www.fresnoirrigation.com 20. LINDSAY — STRATHMORE IRRIGATION DISTRICT www.ssjmud.org a n C F 245,000 acres | 8,000 ag. landowners | Class 2 www.lsid.org C 61,00 acres | 225 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 Lu is MID 6 GWD C 2 a C F 15,400 acres | 650 ag. landowners | Class 1 n a GFWD 10. TRI-VALLEY WATER DISTRICT 31. SHAFTER-WASCO IRRIGATION DISTRICT l / 3 7 IWD C F a r 1 21. TULARE IRRIGATION DISTRICT www.swid.org li ia C | 1,800 acres | 6 ag. landowners | Class 1 fo CFSA n 10 TVWD rn 8 t - www.tulareid.org 34,000 acres | 235 M&I and ag. landowners | Class 1&2 ia K C A e q rn 11. HILLS VALLEY IRRIGATION DISTRICT C F 74,000 acres | 240 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 u Mendota Pool C 11 HVID ed an 32. ARVIN-EDISON WATER STORAGE DISTRICT uc al C F 3,500 acres | 30 ag. landowners | Class 1 t 12 OCID www.aewsd.org All districts identified on back page 13 COC 1 Irrigable land of total 4,500 acres within district C F 131,660 acres | 180 ag. landowners | Class 1&2 9 FID 14 SCID F - Friant Water Authority member agency | C - Friant-Kern Canal operation and maintenance contractor 15 IID 16 EID FRIANT WATER AUTHORITY 17 LCWD KDWCD FWA STAFF DIRECTORY FWA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 18 19 CLWSA Policy Office Home Office 20 LSID Jason Phillips, Chief Executive Officer Edwin A. Camp Clifford R. Loeffler 1121 L St, Ste. 610 854 N. Harvard Ave 21 TID Sacramento, CA 95814 Lindsay, CA 93247 22 LID [email protected] Arvin-Edison Water Storage District Lindsay - Strathmore Irrigation District 23 PID Doug DeFlitch, Chief Operating Officer Kole Upton Jim Erickson 25 LTRID 24 TBDWD [email protected] Chowchilla Water District Madera Irrigation District Sacramento 26 TBID 27 SID Don Willard, Chief Financial Officer Tim Orman, Alternate Director for Lee Brand Harvey A. Bailey C [email protected] City of Fresno Orange Cove Irrigation District a DEID li 28 Stockton fo rn 29 KTWD ia Jeff Payne, Director of Water Policy George Porter Eric Borba San Francisco A Modesto q u SSJMUD e 30 [email protected] Fresno Irrigation District Porterville Irrigation District d u c San Jose Merced t Alexandra Biering, Loren Booth Steven G. Kisling Government Affairs and Communications Manager Hills Valley Irrigation District Saucelito Irrigation District Fresno 31 SWID [email protected] Christopher Tantau, Vice Chair Edwin L. Wheaton Don Davis, General Counsel Kaweah Delta Water Conservation District Terra Bella Irrigation District 32 AEWSD [email protected] Kent H. Stephens, Chair Richard S. Borges, Jr John Bezdek, Special Counsel Kern-Tulare Water District Tulare Irrigation District [email protected] Michael Brownfield Bakersfield Steve Ottemoeller, Water Resources Manager Lindmore Irrigation District [email protected] Friant Division of the Central Valley Project San Joaquin Valley Information & media inquiry: [email protected] | Download this PDF: http://bit.ly/About-FWA FRIANTWATER.ORG FRIANT WATER AUTHORITY APRIL 2018 FRIANT WATER AUTHORITY APRIL 2018 FWA’S ROLE FRIANT-KERN CANAL OPERATION & MAINTENANCE AT-A-GLANCE • Satisfying a 25-year contract with Reclamation to perform THE FRIANT DIVISION all operation, maintenance, and repairs on the canal • Delivering water to all contractors on the Friant-Kern Canal • Constructed as a mid-20th century conjunctive use • Approximately 2.2 million acre-feet of water is contracted strategy to manage groundwater and subsidence in to 34 agencies, districts and municipalities within the • Repairing and replacing panels, structures, and irrigated lands along the San Joaquin Valley’s eastside. Friant Division. The City of Fresno and several other cities other water delivery and control features and towns along the eastern rim of the San Joaquin Valley • Control and removal of aquatic weeds count on Friant supplies as their primary water source. • Supplied by San Joaquin River water stored behind • Clearing debris to allow proper conveyance Friant Dam at Millerton Lake northeast of Fresno. • Addressing all issues or problems arising on the canal • Five counties served • Implementing canal improvements, including capacity by the Friant Division 2015 CALIFORNIA CROP correction and reverse flow pump-back capability • The Bureau of Reclamation acquired water rights for the are among the nation’s VALUE RANKINGS* Friant Division in 1939 through purchase and exchange most productive and RANK COUNTY VALUE agreements with original San Joaquin River water rights account for more ABOUT FRIANT WATER AUTHORITY holders (Exchange Contractors). Under the exchange, than half California’s 1 Tulare $6,980,772,000 Reclamation delivers Delta water to the Exchange 2015 crop values. 2 Kern $6,879,644,000 The Friant Water Authority (FWA) is a public FRIANT DIVISION WATER Contractors, allowing the Friant Division access to the SUPPLY PROTECTION San Joaquin’s most reliable supply. Friant contractors 3 Fresno $6,608,943,000 agency established in 2004 under California’s Joint pay for the operation and maintenance of all facilities. • FWA’s fifteen-member 5 Merced $3,589,900,000 Powers Agreement Act to represent its member • Protecting reliable delivery of water under the Board of Directors San Joaquin River Exchange Contract account for 78% of 10 Madera $2,016,726,000 agencies in federal and state policy, regulatory and • Implementing the San Joaquin River • The 152-mile Friant-Kern Canal and 36-mile Madera Canal irrigated lands and Total: $26,075,985,000 political matters that affect water supplies within serve more than 15,000 individual farms cultivating more than 64% of Federal water Restoration Settlement California: $47,071,513,000 1 million acres — a quarter of the Valley’s agricultural land. supply contracts in Friant Division of the Central Valley Project (CVP). • Participating in other state and federal activities the Friant Division. % 55.40% FWA is additionally responsible for all operation, that may affect water supply, including WaterFix, Coordinated Long-Term Operations of the CVP/SWP, *California Agricultural Statistics Review, 2015-2016, California Department of Food and Agriculture. maintenance and repair functions for the Friant- the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, and Kern Canal and other associated works of the State Water Resources Control Board proceedings CVP WATER DELIVERIES TO THE FRIANT DIVISION KEPT REGIONAL Friant Division under contract with the Bureau of GROUNDWATER STABLE THROUGH MULTIPLE CYCLES OF DROUGHT Reclamation (Reclamation). FWA is the successor 0 1,500 to the Friant Water Users Authority, which held REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE PERIODS OF DROUGHT CVP FRIANT DIVISION DELIVERIES* contracts for OMR on the canal beginning in 1986. IMPROVEMENT (THOUSAND ACRE-FEET) • Supporting new storage, such as at Temperance Flat • Restoring Friant-Kern Canal and Madera -2 1,000 Canal conveyance capacity Deliveries to the CVP Friant 2016 STRATEGIC Division increased through the completion of the Friant-Kern and Madera canals in 1951.
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