City of Cloverdale Well Replacement and Rehabilitation Project

Improving Water Supply Infrastructure to Support our Drought Response

Cloverdale is committed to increasing the City’s resiliency to cope with and respond to drought conditions. As part of the City’s continued and long-term drought response efforts, the City of Cloverdale was awarded a $3,005,000 grant from the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) in September 2022 as part of the Urban and Multi-benefit Drought Relief Grant Program to help fund water supply and distribution system projects across the city.

The DWR grant agreement includes funding for the following three projects:

1. Advanced Metering Infrastructure Upgrades
2. Well Replacement and Rehabilitation
3. Supervisorial Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Expansion

Improving Water Supply Wells

The City is beginning its second project funded under the Grant, which will rehabilitate and replace two of the City’s water supply wells. As part of the City’s continuing efforts, the new well equipment will improve vital infrastructure, conserve water, and optimize the City’s Water Treatment Plant operations.

Cloverdale’s water supply comes from several wells located in the Cloverdale River Park along the west bank of the Russian River at the City’s Water Treatment Plant. The wells are drilled into Cloverdale’s water-bearing porous rock layer, known as alluvium, which is a mix of gravel, sand, silt, and clay deposited in the last 3 million years. The wells pump groundwater influenced by Russian River water into the plant for treatment. After treatment, the water is then pumped to the City’s main reservoirs and distributed through 40 miles of water mains throughout the City system.

During drought conditions, lower groundwater levels and decreased flow from the river have created difficulties for two older water supply wells. When pumping from these wells during low water levels, air and debris become mixed with the water, in a process known as air entrainment, and is carried into the treatment plant. This debris can clog the plant’s filters, requiring City staff to restrict pumping and repeatedly use water to backwash the filters to clear them. This process uses valuable water and reduces supply well and plant efficiency – and is only expected to intensify as drought and extreme weather conditions continue.

Water Supply Wells Project

To address this issue, the project will replace Well #7 and rehabilitate Well #8, shown on the included map. At Well #7, this replacement work will include:

• drilling three exploratory borings up to approximately 200 feet deep,

• construction of a new well by the bucket-rig method,

• construction of a new well pump station, and

• existing well abandonment.

At Well #8, the rehabilitation will include:

• testing of the existing well and the well pump and motor,

• installing a new well casing to reduce or eliminate air entrainment, and

• improvements to the pump station equipment.

This picture of Courtney was taken at 8th grade promotion and was the last carefree day of her life. Her life fell apart a few days later with a cancer diagnosis…Ewing’s Sarcoma. Who had ever heard of such a thing?

On this 15th anniversary, we would like to share a few borrowed and slightly altered lines from Joni Mitchell….

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air

And feather canyons everywhere, we’ve looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun, they rain and snow on everyone

So many things we would have done, but clouds got in our way

Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say, “We love you” right out loud

Schemes and dreams and circus crowds, we’ve looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, they say we’ve changed

But something’s lost but something’s gained in living every day

We’ve looked at life from both sides now

From give and take and still somehow

It’s life’s illusions we recall, we really don’t know life at all.

To everyone who’s read this, we sincerely wish you a life filled with love, harmony, gratitude, peace, joy, mirth, kindness and awe. We will be planting a Coffee Berry at the Cloverdale River Park on January 5th, 2023. Please feel free to join us.

It has been a long fifteen years of missing you, Courtney Jade Davis

“Life is only as bad as you make it”

Love, Dad and Mom

by David Maciel
Sponsored by Ray’s Food Place, Furber Plaza
January is when the Chinese New Year is celebrated. I love Chinese food in general but a hardy simple noodle soup on cold winter night is belly warming. You can certainly add any meats or seafood to this soup if that’s your fancy.

“Gung Hay Fat Choy” which literally means “wishing you great happiness and prosperity”

Ingredients
•4 cups chicken stock
3 green onions, finely sliced into rounds
1 TBS Oyster Sauce
1 TBS low sodium Soy Sauce
1 TBS low sodium dark Soy Sauce (this can be held until the end and added if needed, by taste)
4 oz. dried Chinese noodles of your choice
4 leaves Bok Choy/Pak Choi, sliced

Ingredients

In a large saucepan, heat the chicken stock and bring to a boil.

Add the green onions, Bok Choy or Chinese greens, soy sauces, oyster sauce & the noodles

Reduce the heat and cook according to noodle

package instructions (just until tender).

Serve hot.

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