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City hopes Antelope-Valley East Kern Water Agency will help fund recharge project

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on March 17, 2008 at 12:54 pm

From the Antelope Valley Press:

City officials continue on their mission to lure partners for the design and construction of a water recharge project. In that quest, they hope help will come in the form of money. So Leon Swain, Palmdale’s director of Public Works, presented the city plans for the Upper Amargosa Recharge and Nature Park to the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency board of directors at their meeting Tuesday night.

That project carries a price tag of $14.5 million, and Palmdale has committed to paying $2.5 million of the cost. Swain said the city is seeking $3 million from Proposition 50 funds and hoping for another $350,00 in an Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Grant from the state for highway landscaping and urban forestry projects.

But an $8.6 million shortfall remains and the share sought from partners has not yet been determined.

Swain described the merits of the water recharge project. “It meets all five water management strategies” cited in the Antelope Valley Integrated Regional Water Management Plan, he said.

The plan involved a meeting of the minds of representatives from all Valley water suppliers, government agencies at city, county and state levels as well as members of the building industry.

Swain identified the following management strategies the Upper Amargosa project would satisfy: water supply management; water quality management; flood management; environmental resource management; and land use management. “This is exactly what the Valley needs,” Swain said.

The project could help close a deficit in between water supply and demand in the valley that, if nothing is done, could mean not enough water in the Antelope Valley in 2035. To read the rest of this story from the Antelope Valley Press, click here.

March 17, 2008 · Filed Under Antelope Valley, Groundwater

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