irrigation district
WWD investment will pay... notice the inference that Westlands can sell water to So Cal
Submitted by Lloyd_Carter on Thu, 05/01/2008 - 16:06.Wednesday, Apr. 30, 2008
Fitch Rates Westlands Water District, California's $30.1MM 2008A COPs 'A'
SAN FRANCISCO — Fitch Ratings has assigned an 'A' rating to Westlands Water District, California's (WWD) $30 million adjustable-rate refunding revenue certificates of participation (COPs), series 2008A. Fitch has also assigned an 'A' rating to WWD's approximately $230 million outstanding parity certificates. The Rating Outlook is Stable.
READ MORE »Lloyd published in the Sacramento Bee
Submitted by Lloyd_Carter on Fri, 04/25/2008 - 19:22.From the Sacramento Bee...
Lloyd G. Carter: A California water story of individual tenacity
By Lloyd G. Carter - Special to The Bee
Published 12:00 am PDT Friday, April 25, 2008
Story appeared in EDITORIALS section, Page B7
You have to give 75-year-old Felix Smith of Carmichael credit for tenacity.
A quarter-century ago, Smith became the conscience of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when he blew the whistle on the selenium poisoning of the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in western Merced County.
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