Westlands Water District

In his first podcast of "Tales of the Hydraulic Brotherhood" California water expert
Lloyd Carter talks about the Westlands Water District, at 942 square miles the largest and most politically powerful federal water district in America.

Westlands has a drainage problem caused by selenium, a trace element inherent in the soils of the western San Joaquin Valley in Central California, the nation's most productive farming region. Drainage water from Westlands poisoned ducks and shorebirds at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in the mid 1980s triggering national headlines.