Friant Water Users Authority

The Central Valley Project’s Friant Division service area includes one million acres of the world’s richest farmland in portions of Merced, Madera, Fresno, Tulare and Kings counties which annually produces about $2.5 billion in gross agricultural production with a tremendous variety of crops and that amount turns over and expands as it passes through the economy. Numerous communities depend on Friant water supplies either directly ― such as the cities and towns of Fresno, Friant, Orange Cove, Lindsay, Strathmore and Terra Bella ― or indirectly from groundwater recharge from irrigation.

The 15,000 mostly small Friant Division family farmers have, largely thanks to the availability of Friant project water, accomplished what was asked of them by the federal government when the CVP was being developed. They have created the most productive agricultural region in the world.

Rocky Hill Check
Spring, 1999