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How does drinking water get to the Santa Clarita Valley?

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 14, 2008 at 7:01 am

From the Santa Clarita Signal, Aquafornia’s home base, part one of a two-part series:

Snow falls on the rocky crest of Kettle Rock in Northern California, 500 miles from Santa Clarita. In this remote and rugged stretch of the Sierra Nevada, carpeted with coniferous trees and skirted with meadows, few hikers ever make it to the 7,300-foot summit or leave their footprints in the snow pack here. But, this is where our story begins - with a single drop of water, melting from the snow pack atop Kettle Rock.

Our story ends in Santa Clarita Valley, where that same drop of water drips from a tap. “This is your watershed. This is the state’s watershed. This is Santa Clarita’s watershed,” said a man who has devoted his life to holding back the forces of climate change threatening the state’s water supply and the supply of water to Santa Clarita. “This watershed is the watershed of the State Water Project, there is no other source.”

Jim Wilcox is the project manager for the Feather River Coordinated Resource Management team in Plumas County. For more than two decades, he and others on his team have been working steadily, and quietly, in the tranquil meadows of Plumas County, trying to reverse a disastrous trend in the changing profile of this landscape. The meadows are disappearing.

Read the rest of this story from the Santa Clarita Signal by clicking here.

July 14, 2008 · Filed Under Environment & Water, Uncategorized