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Goleta Water District delves into details of agreement

Posted by: Maven on March 6, 2010 at 5:23 am

From Noozhawk:

“While the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District, Improvement District 1 — better known as ID1 — seemed recalcitrant at last week’s meeting of the Cachuma Operations and Maintenance Board, this week the agency quietly entered into a memorandum of understanding with COMB regarding a major construction project that it had refused to endorse.

Dubbed the Second Barrel project, COMB has touted the 8,200-foot-long section of pipeline as a key part of its partial revamp of the South Coast Conduit — the South Coast’s main water artery — and ID1’s vote on Cachuma’s board was needed for it to go ahead.

ID1 had taken issue with a jurisdictional transfer of a few fish habitat restoration projects it was involved with and refused to budge on Second Barrel — seemingly in retribution. It was enough for COMB representative and Santa Barbara City Councilman Das Williams — discouraged with the latest in a nearly yearlong series of complications to what had at first seemed like a straightforward plan by COMB to make needed repairs to the South Coast’s water delivery system — to call for a “divorce,” asking for ID1 to voluntarily remove itself from COMB. … “

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March 6, 2010 · Filed Under Southern California

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