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Cachuma Operations Board fights for water reliability

Posted by: Maven on February 25, 2010 at 6:41 am

From Noozhawk:

“What began as an expensive but run-of-the-mill list of maintenance projects for the South Coast’s water supply infrastructure has erupted into a full-blown battle as water policymakers struggle to look out for the interests of their respective customers while seeking — often unsuccessfully — to find common ground among one another.

For the past eight months, problems have arisen among the various water agencies, leading some South Coast water managers to worry that the region’s water supply may be in jeopardy from the inaction caused by constant conflict.

At a meeting Monday of the Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board — an organization made up of the city of Santa Barbara Public Works Department, the Goleta, Montecito and Carpinteria Valley water districts, and the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, Improvement District 1 (known simply as ID1) — board President Das Williams called for a “divorce” from ID1, citing irreconcilable differences and a need to confine Cachuma’s South Coast-specific water issues to South Coast agencies.

“You have held the South Coast’s water supply hostage over an arcane legal dispute no one really cares about,” he shot at ID1’s COMB representative. … “


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February 25, 2010 · Filed Under Southern California

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