Federal Funding Enables Friant Water Authority Improvements

It was pretty exciting to hear at the Friant Water Authority (FWA) board meeting this week about the huge and immediate impact the $200 million allocation from the Big Beautiful Bill Congress passed a few months ago is having on FWA. New pump stations will soon be under construction and right of way purchases will be commencing on the next phase of the parallel canal subsidence fix on Friant-Kern. The influx of federal funding also paved the way to remove a huge conflict within the Friant family over how to recover the costs of these subsidence fixes, hopefully eliminating a difficult legal dispute among the members. Many thanks in particular to Congressmen Valadao and Fong for their critical leadership in obtaining these critical federal funds.

Geoff Vanden Heuvel

Director of Regulatory and Economic Affairs