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Water lifeline for Shafter Wasco grows with district history
Jeanette Wheeler recounts the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District’s pivotal role since 1957 in supplying area water. It notes near dissolution in 1941, the Friant Dam era, tax-rate changes to 1.30 per 100, and projected finances, plus groundwater decline, recharge efforts, and the 1955 contract with the Bureau of Reclamation for Central Valley Project water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette Wheeler
Shafter
Shafter-Wasco
Robert Diltz
Friant
Superior Court of
Kern County
District Board of Directors
Wasco
Calloway
Kern River
North Kern
Lerdo
Shafter- Wasco
James Burke
Visalia
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
Friant Dam
Diltz
Central Valley Project
Bureau of Reclamation
Friant- Ker
United States
Bureau of Relamation
Teal
Friant-Kern
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation