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Fresno Aquarium

is being built on our 10 acres along
Hwy 99 overlooking the San Joaquin River

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Jun 10

Welcome

You have the power to make a significant impact!

Your generous donation today continues the building of the nonprofit Fresno Aquarium DEBT-FREE!

Will you join us?

Every gift, large and small, brings us that much closer to opening our very first building. You’re making Fresno a better place.

This is why the nonprofit 501(c)(3) Aquarius Aquarium Institute urgently needs your tax-deductible support right away to continue the progress donors just like you have already made toward building this exciting project.

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Dec 31

You Exceeded Our 2021 Goal – Surpassing 2,000 Blocks Sold!

December 31, 2021 – Generous year-end donors succeeded in surpassing our 2021 goal of having 2,000 blocks with names on them!

There is a counter on this website that is updated every time someone puts their name on a concrete block and we’re very grateful to all the generous donors who are continuing to support this nonprofit project for the benefit of our entire Valley ever since our long-time friend Lynn Hock-Napoli put her name on the very first block…

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Jan 12

$300,000 Milestone Reached

January 12, 2020 – As 2019 was coming to a close, we had our eyes on a pending milestone. Would our donors push us over the $300,000 mark in our From the Ground Up Capital Campaign?

Thanks to year-end gifts from some very generous people, we are happy to report that we exceeded our goal!

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Aug 31

A Place for our Community

August 31, 2019 – As donations both small and large come in, the nonprofit Aquarius Aquarium Institute is building the Fresno Aquarium to be not only our future home, but also to be a center of activity for the entire central San Joaquin Valley community.

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Sep 16

Roy Jura

Roy Richard Jura
JUNE 2, 1928 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

September 16, 2018 – It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of Roy Jura on September 5th, 2018. Along with his wife Betty and his three children, he made the decision to first donate five, then ten acres of the Jura family farmland along the San Joaquin River to Aquarius Aquarium Institute…

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Dec 8

A Year of Accomplishment

December 8, 2017 – Everyone who has donated to our 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization has brought us to the point where visible activity is now taking place on the Fresno Aquarium property donated to us in 2006 by the Roy and Betty Jura family. The giant fire protection water tank has already…

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Aug 27

Water Line and Fire Hydrant Constructed

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August 27, 2017 – A significant step is nearly complete as Jerico Fire Protection of Fresno finishes up the underground pipeline from our fire protection water tank (in the distance up the hill) to a brand new fire hydrant near the Aquarium building pad.

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May 17

Spring 2017 Construction Update


Donations to our nonprofit project are going right back into our local economy. This spring, Andrew Tuell Concrete, Inc. of Clovis poured a massive two-foot-thick concrete slab for our thirty-foot-tall fire protection water tank after our engineering plans were approved by Fresno County and the North Central Fire Protection District. This slab will provide a solid base for the tank, which will feed into a water main leading to a fire hydrant near the future aquarium building.

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