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Tennant water project likely put off for another year

Posted by: Maven on June 15, 2009 at 2:45 pm

From the Siskiyou Daily News:

It looks like the people of Tennant will be boiling their drinking and cooking water for another year. This was disappointing news for those people, many of whom packed the county administrator’s conference room Wednesday for a special board of supervisors meeting to discuss the construction project for a renovated water system for the Tennant Community Services District.

The project has run into snags and misunderstandings. Money from a Community Development Block Grant was being used to get the project going.

According to supervisor Jim Cook, the state has “drawn a hard line.” “If the project is not ‘shovel ready’ by this Friday, you won’t be able to start,” he asserted. He explained that the deadlines keep moving up closer and closer to assure that the project can take advantage of the economic stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

And there’s still the matter of California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) work to be done. The board looked briefly at the possibility of a “Cat X” (or categorical exemption) for the project, but that was rejected by a vote of 1-4 with supervisor Cook voting in the affirmative.

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June 15, 2009 · Filed Under Northern California

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