Congressman Jim Costa announced Friday that more than $131 million in federal funding is being awarded for major water infrastructure improvements across the San Joaquin Valley, including two main components of the federal water delivery system, the Friant-Kern Canal and the O’Neill Pumping Plant. … Groundwater overpumping had caused a 33-mile section of the canal in Tulare County to sink, crimping its carrying capacity by 60%. … The O’Neill Pumping Plant is 12 miles west of Los Banos and lifts water from the Delta-Mendota Canal into the O’Neill Forebay, where water then travels to contractors of the federal Central Valley Project.

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