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Bone-dry Bolinas – barometer for state?

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on February 4, 2009 at 7:54 am

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

With California in a critical drought, every shower, load of laundry and glass of tap water counts. But only in Bolinas could those things cost you your water connection.

The oceanside enclave in Marin County has enacted some of the state’s toughest water restrictions. Each customer – with the exception of schools and some businesses – may use no more than 150 gallons a day, about 4,500 gallons each month. A third violation of the order would allow the Bolinas Community Public Utility District to cut off water.

Without drastic cutbacks, officials say, the community of 1,200 could run out of water by the end of April. The town on the southern end of the Point Reyes Peninsula already is drawing from two emergency reservoirs, one of which is effectively empty.

“People are worried,” said Jennifer Blackman, general manager of the utility district, which authorized the measures last week. “It’s unsettling to be informed that a resource which is necessary to life is limited in this way.”

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February 4, 2009 · Filed Under Conservation

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