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Land Use and Water Planning
The San Joaquin River is at the center of the debate over how we grow into the future. Will the river and its wildlife resources survive as the centerpiece of a new development area? How will we adapt water plans to meet the changing needs of California's cities and agriculture?
Revive the San Joaquin Wins Court Battle!
With our legal partners the Dumna Tribal Council and Madera Oversight Coalition, Revive the San Joaquin just got word that we won our lawsuit against the poorly planned Tesoro Viejo Development along the river in Madera County. This State Appellate Court decision will reverse County approvals for a master planned community of 15,000 residents that would have dumped wastewater to the river, paved over impo
Opposes Friant Ranch
Posted at 12:03 AM on Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011
In the Jan. 15 Valley Voices, Dennis Bacopulus, spokesperson for Friant Ranch development, described the benefits of the project located adjacent to the town of Friant.
City, county in tug-of-war over proposed development
Posted at 08:25 PM on Saturday, Jan.
DENNIS BACOPULOS: The facts about Friant Ranch
Posted at 12:00 AM on Saturday, Jan.
CHRIS ACREE: Remove sprawl from plan
Posted at 12:00 AM on Saturday, Jan.
Friant Ranch development plan sets off debate
Friant residents see growth; opponents see sprawl, river threat.
Posted at 10:38 PM on Friday, Jan.
Madera Co. faces $500k fine for road project
Published online on Tuesday, Sep.
Auditor woes cost Madera County
Missed deadlines put at least $5.4 million at risk.
Published online on Tuesday, Feb. 03, 2009
In the rural, low-income community of Fairmead about 10 miles north of Madera, some 800 people rely on a decades-old water pump that could fail at any moment.
Madera County: Next frontier or next Fresno?
Published online on Wednesday, Sep. 30, 2009
I learned long ago to ignore marketers and social scientists declaring this place or that place "the last frontier."
There's always another frontier over the hill.
For San Joaquin River, a historic reawakening begins this week
By Mark Grossi
Fresno Bee
Published Monday, Sep. 28, 2009
It all starts Thursday with a gentle surge of water to be released from Friant Dam into the San Joaquin River.
A massive, unprecedented and unpredictable river restoration project will begin -- reawakening miles of dried riverbed and salmon runs that have been extinct for six decades.
Since the dam was built in the 1940s, long stretches of the river have been dry.