Board Member Nichole Morgan addresses Niles Garden community at its ribbon cutting on July 29. Photo courtesy of State Water Resource Control
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, CA (MPG) – The State Water Resources Control Board this past week joined two small, disadvantaged communities with longstanding water infrastructure problems, the town of Robbins in Sutter County and Nile Garden Elementary School in San Joaquin County, to celebrate major milestones on their journeys to a sustainable supply of safe and affordable drinking water.
For the first time since 2017, Nile Garden School will have a reliable supply of safe drinking water when its 800 students and faculty return in August. After resolving multiple project complications since the pandemic, laying over a mile of new transmission line and building a new treatment facility, the City of Manteca completed the consolidation of the school’s water system this summer…