Peter Rietkerk

South San Joaquin Irrigation District, General Manager

Peter Rietkerk is the General Manager of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District, where he manages water resources, financial, operations, maintenance, and customer services functions supporting agricultural irrigation for 56,000 acres and municipal water to over 193,000 residents. Peter has always gravitated toward water resources, growing up on a family farm in Corcoran, CA. He holds a B.S. in BioResource and Agricultural Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, a M.S. in Civil/Environmental Engineering from U.C. Davis, and is a licensed civil engineer. Peter has managed irrigation districts in the San Joaquin valley for over 11 years.