Porterville Irrigation District - PID

04/04/2024

RSVP Now!!! Friant Water Authority 2024 Annual Meeting at the San Joaquin Winery (Madera), May 16th.
https://friantwater.org/meetings-events/2022/12/9/friant-water-authority-board-of-directors-meeting-shxlb-8b3gf-yt59z-3hkf8-3ymfj-rszgb-tyf7c-4fm3w-s92pa-ymxh4-cez2s-pkac2-mh7z4-8lalm

04/04/2024

The Bureau of Reclamation announced earlier this week that the Class 1 allocation for Friant Division contractors was increased to 95%. With this announcement, PID has plans to start an irrigation/recharge run on Monday, 04/08/24.

Food Grows Where Water Flows

03/03/2024

FWA Annual Meeting May 16, 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/friantwater.org/fwa-annual-meeting-april-13-2023-see-you-there-13729330

02/09/2024

⚠ More Impactful Weather Is Coming ⚠

Feb 17-19: 60% chance (high risk) of hazardous, heavy precipitation across our entire service area. This includes heavy rain and heavy snow in the mountains. This is highlighted below in red box and map (a).

Feb 16-21: Overall, a 40% chance (moderate risk) of hazardous, heavy precipitation, including heavy rain and heavy snow (mountains), as well as strong winds across our service area. This is also depicted in map (b).

01/30/2024

01/30/2024

A Winter Storm Watch has been issued, in effect from 4 PM Wednesday afternoon until 4 PM Friday afternoon for the Sierra Nevada. Moderate to heavy snowfall is possible as a result of a system moving through Central California this week. Travel may be extremely difficult to almost impossible. Plan on road closures due to snowfall.

01/25/2024

💦 District staff measured 0.87” at the office so far this week to bring January’s total to 1.62” and the total this rainfall year since Oct 1st to 2.77”. And there’s more in the forecast after a warm spell.

01/05/2024

Effective 12/29/23, Porterville Irrigation District has new phone numbers due to circumstances out of our control:

Phone: 559-782-6321
Fax: 559-782-6327

08/18/2023

At 5 AM PDT Friday, August 18th, 2023, Hilary is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Hurricane Hilary will weaken this weekend as it moves northward over cooler waters. Hilary is expected to be a tropical storm Sunday afternoon, before it reaches Southern California. There is a moderate risk (40-70%) of excessive rainfall in the Kern County desert Sunday afternoon through Monday. There is a slight risk (15-40%) of excessive rainfall in the remainder of Kern County, the Sierra Nevada, and adjacent foothills Sunday night and Monday.

05/29/2023

We would like to remind everyone that the office will be closed on Monday, May 29th in observance of Memorial Day (a solemn day of remembrance for everyone who has died serving in the American armed forces).

05/10/2023

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The Sierra Nevada snowpack acts as a natural reservoir for winter precipitation storage until it melts in the spring and summer. California’s average runoff is about 71 million acre-feet of water per year.

03/22/2023

💦 District staff measured 0.55” at the office this morning to bring March’s total to 4.62” and the total this rainfall year since Oct 1st to a whopping 16.74”! And there’s more in the forecast.

There is a marginal risk of excessive rainfall in the Sierra Nevada foothills, eastern San Joaquin Valley, and Kern County mountains, which could lead to flooding or worsen ongoing flooding. The heaviest rainfall is expected this afternoon.