Jordan College hosts water management events during Ag Week

(March 13, 2015) – The Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology will host two water management events that are free to the public on campus this Thursday, March 19.

The International Center for Water Technology will sponsor its quarterly Water Cluster meeting from 9-11 a.m. at its office at 5370 North Chestnut Avenue. 

Topics covered include the future of irrigation and monitoring oil concentration in oil field-produced water and other sources for reuse.

The meeting features business innovators presenting products and services with the potential to revolutionize the water industry and is attended by industry representatives, government agencies, and Fresno State staff and students. 

Online registration for the event is available here.

Also on March 19, the Center for Irrigation Technology will co-host a workshop entitled “Challenges of the 2015 Drought: Water Project Operations”.

The event will be held from 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the Alice Peters Auditorium/room 191 in the Peters Business Building/University Business Center. The California Department of Water Resources and Water Education Foundation serve as co-sponsors of the event.

The area is coming off a record-dry three-year period from 2012-2014 that resulted in water allocation cutbacks last year to State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project contractors. 

This briefing will educate the public on this year’s water project operations, conditions in the California Delta and actions being taken to balance impacts to cities, farms and the environment.

More workshop information and a registration link is available here,and a workshop schedule follows: 

9:30 a.m. – Registration

10 a.m. – Hydrologic Conditions Overview and Drought Status – Jeanine Jones, Deputy Drought Manager and Interstate Resources Manager, California Department of Water Resources

10:30 a.m. - Institutional Constraints on Central Valley Project/State Water Project Operations - Paul Marshall, Chief of the Bay Delta Office, California Department of Water Resources

11:15 a.m. - State Water Project Operations in 2015 - John Leahigh, Chief of Water Operations Office, California Department of Water Resources

12:00 p.m. - Lunch

12:45 p.m. - Central Valley Project Operations in 2015 - Paul Fujitani, Deputy Operations Manager, Central Valley Operations Office, Water Operations Division, Bureau of Reclamation / Rufino Gonzales, South Central California Area Office, Bureau of Reclamation

1:30 p.m. - Activities of the State Water Resources Control Board - Les Grober, Assistant Deputy for the Division of Water Rights, California State Water Resources Control Board

2:00 p.m. - Groundwater conditions in the San Joaquin Valley - Dane Mathis, Chief, Groundwater & Regional Planning Section, California Department of Water Resources South Central Regional Office

2:30 p.m. - Drought Impacts: Estimating Land Fallowed in 2014 - Forrest Melton, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Ames

3:00 p.m. - Adjourn