SSJID explores remaking entire delivery system

The project involves “pressurizing” a system that has relied on gravity for the past century to get water to farmers around Ripon, Manteca and Escalon. Water from the main canal would go into six small reservoirs around the district, th

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South San Joaquin Irrigation District names new general manager

Rietkerk, 32, will succeed the retiring Jeff Shields at SSJID, which serves about 55,000 acres of farmland around Escalon, Ripon and Manteca with water from the Stanislaus River. The district also treats water for residents of Manteca, Lathrop