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Commentary: Time for quick action on Monterey’s water

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 20, 2009 at 7:25 am

From the Monterey County Herald, this commentary by Libby Downey, member of the Monterey City Council, a member of the Monterey Regional Water Pollution Control Agency’s ad hoc committee and a participant in the Water for Monterey County Coalition:

“The clock is ticking for Monterey’s residents, businesses and customers of California American Water on the Peninsula.

It is incumbent upon the community to quickly get behind the Regional Water Project under consideration by the California Public Utilities Commission, or our water will virtually be shut off by another regulator, the State Water Resources Control Board, under its Cease and Desist Order 95-10.

Cal Am and its Peninsula customers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The PUC expects to choose a water supply project by early next year. But the Water Resources Control Board, over the objections of the PUC, has imposed Order WR 2009-0060 on Cal Am to reduce pumping from the Carmel River aquifer.

The order jeopardizes the health and safety of Peninsula residents by restricting individual water consumption to a level below the current 70 gallons per day, and well below the governor’s 2020 target of 123 gallons per day statewide. … “

Read more from the Monterey County Herald by clicking here.

November 20, 2009 · Filed Under Central Coast

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