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Amador County Supervisors push for more Pardee meetings

Posted by: Maven on March 27, 2009 at 6:12 am

From the Amador County Ledger Dispatch:

Local elected officials will jump with both feet into a Pardee Reservoir fight building with Bay Area water authorities.

On the heels of dozens of loud protests lodged toward East Bay Municipal Utility District officials in a jam-packed March 17 meeting in Sutter Creek, county supervisors Tuesday called for a larger, more fully accommodating session to be held with EBMUD officials inside the board of supervisors chambers on Court Street in Jackson. At issue is a proposed raising of Pardee Dam, a move that would flood a scenic, public-access stretch of the Mokelumne River.

“I think we should go so far as to ask EBMUD to hold another meeting, in this facility,” said District 2 Supervisor Richard Forster. “For example, on AB 885, a meeting hall in Santa Rosa wouldn’t accommodate everybody, so they didn’t hold the meeting, because it was a violation of the public meeting law.”

Forster was referring to a controversial septic tank regulation bill.

EBMUD is looking at a range of projects to serve long-term water supply needs of its growing customer base. But local activists want the matter settled comparatively quickly. “The projects are 15 or 20 years down the road, true, but it’s our river,” said Debbie Dunn, an Amador Water Agency director.

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March 27, 2009 · Filed Under Bay Area

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