San Diego city council approves water rate increase
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 19, 2008 at 6:34 amFrom La Jolla Light:
The San Diego City Council today approved two water rate increases to cover the higher cost of imported water and to fund a sewage recycling study.
With no discussion, the council voted 5-3 in favor of the rate increases.
Councilmen Kevin Faulconer, Tony Young and Brain Maienschein cast the dissenting votes.
A public hearing on the water rate hikes was held Monday, but a vote was put off until today to give Councilwoman Donna Frye, who had been out sick, a chance to weigh in.
The city council also approved a one-year recycled water test project. More from La Jolla Light by clicking here.
Escondido: Drought prompts city crackdown on water usage; New ordinance restricts sprinkler usage, backyard fountains
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 16, 2008 at 6:15 amFrom the North County Times:
City residents might soon be forced to cover their swimming pools every night, water their lawns only two days a week and turn off their backyard fountains.
A statewide drought has prompted the Escondido City Council to replace its water conservation ordinance with a much stricter version that includes stern usage regulations if drought conditions don’t improve. Escondido is one of the first cities in the county to adopt such an ordinance, but other cities are expected to follow suit quickly. The San Diego County Water Authority has provided each city with a “model” ordinance to use as a blueprint.
When the council adopted its ordinance last month, it also launched an aggressive public relations campaign aimed at encouraging city residents to conserve enough water to stave off the tighter restrictions. But officials said last week that it is highly probable the city will still have to trigger many of the new restrictions early next year by declaring a “Level 2″ water shortage.
“It’s not time for people to tear all their grass out and replace it with rock, but people need to start doing the little things that really make a difference,” Councilman Sam Abed said last week. “This is a serious situation.”
Read more from the North County Times by clicking here.
San Diego’s North County: Farmers’ water rates to rise, supplies to fall, officials say
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 13, 2008 at 5:58 amFrom the North County Times:
As the state deals with a growing water shortage crisis, local farmers will have to make some tough decisions in the near future: keep taking water at a discounted rate in exchange for reducing usage, decline the discount and try to absorb the extra costs, or discontinue farming.
Whether growers continue to take the fee reduction or not, they are likely to pay higher water rates in the coming years, officials with the San Diego County Farm Bureau said during a meeting Wednesday in Escondido.
The 15 percent discount, which amounts to about $155 per acre-foot of water, will be phased out starting next year and will disappear completely by Jan. 1, 2013. Officials said the loss of the discount was the result of a statewide water shortage due to drought.
“I don’t think there’s any going back,” said Michael Hurley, an environmental consultant for the Farm Bureau.
More than 500 farmers attended the Ag Water Summit at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Some farmers said the rate increases, along with new runoff water regulations due to take effect in 2010, may drive them out of business.
“They are trying to get rid of agriculture in California,” said Rosalie Caso, who owns a 20-acre avocado grove in Fallbrook.
Read more from the North County Times by clicking here.
San Diego City Council votes to tighten water restrictions effective January 1st
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 11, 2008 at 5:49 amFrom the Voice of San Diego:
Time to put the hose away and bring out the broom. If you’re going to clean the sidewalk, and you live or work in the city of San Diego, you’re now prohibited from using a hose to do it (unless it’s a power washer). If you’re staying in a hotel here, you should have the option of eschewing clean linens and towels each day. If you’re eating out, you should have to request water. And no more over-watering your yard to the point that water runs into the street.
The City Council voted Monday 6-0 to tighten its water-use regulations as of Jan. 1, including all of those water-waste fighting tactics. (Councilmen Brian Maienschein and Tony Young were absent.)
The steps reflect the growing seriousness of San Diego’s water supply problems and come as the region steadily marches toward the first potential mandatory restrictions for water consumption in almost two decades. In adopting permanent restrictions — some regardless of whether supplies are crimped — council members said they felt it was important to send a message to residents about the tenuousness of the city’s water supply.
Read more from the Voice of San Diego by clicking here.
San Diego: OK of water mandates expected; Council likely to approve upgrade to drought alert
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 9, 2008 at 6:58 amFrom the San Diego Union Tribune:
Mandatory water-saving measures for all San Diego businesses and residents will start to take shape Monday, when the City Council likely will approve an emergency conservation plan. Most of the rules won’t begin immediately because it’s not clear how much water the city or the region must save in 2009.
Barring heavy mountain snowfall this winter, water agencies statewide are widely expected by spring to step up conservation with new rules and stronger enforcement amid a prolonged drought. San Diego’s role is particularly important because it is by far the largest water user in this county, accounting for more than one-third of the overall consumption.
The city’s proposal includes year-round regulations against water waste, such as a ban on landscape irrigation runoff. It also establishes a system of progressively stricter mandates that includes outdoor watering schedules, a ban on the use of most ornamental fountains and restrictions on car washing.
The biggest potential change for customers is a property-by-property water “budget” that would impose dramatically higher rates for those who go over their allotted limit.
San Diego also is preparing to stop issuing water permits for most new development projects unless builders can offset their water demand through conservation or other measures. That provision would start only if the drought becomes more severe, but it already has sparked concerns about the lack of details.
Read more from the San Diego Union Tribune by clicking here.
San Diego’s Valley Center: District may face 50 percent water rationing in 2009
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 4, 2008 at 6:25 amFrom the North County Times:
Metropolitan Water District General Manager Jeff Kightlinger on Monday warned Valley Center authorities of a 50 percent chance of water rationing next year. If rationing is implemented, Valley Center residents could face possible penalties for exceeding their water limit, under a plan Valley Center Water District board members discussed during the meeting.
Preparing people now for a cutback in January is a better strategy than surprising customers with large changes that may fluctuate during the year, Kightlinger told district board members.
“We want to ‘measure twice and cut once,’ ” Kightlinger said about how to deal with a dry 2009. He also said the district does not want to repeat its actions of 1991, when it cut 30 percent of its customers’ allocations, only to return later with an additional 50 percent cut. “This time around, we want to move into it a little more thoughtfully,” he said about the district, which is considering reducing allocations by 5 percent to 10 percent in January.
Read more from the North County Times by clicking here.
San Diego County: One ag water discount will remain as other is phased out
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on November 3, 2008 at 6:36 amFrom the North County Times:
Farmers who get water through the San Diego County Water Authority will continue to receive a 15 percent discount after the regional water board voted unanimously to extend the program, officials said last week. As with current discounts, one of which is being phased out, the catch is that growers who want the rate reduction will have to agree to be the first ones to cut back when drought conditions or something more catastrophic, such as an earthquake, occurs.
Keith Lewinger, general manager of the Fallbrook Public Utility District, said the Oct. 23 decision to keep the discount program in place could save Fallbrook growers an estimated $800,000 per year. But the program is voluntary, and growers may choose to pay full price and have the level of service as a residential customer during water shortages, Lewinger said.
Read more from the North County Times by clicking here.
Flushed: Commentary makes the case for “Indirect Potable Reuse” in San Diego
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 30, 2008 at 5:44 amFrom the Voice of San Diego:
No one is arguing that we can conserve our way out of the water crisis — although that is where we must start. But if we move to the next tier, what does that look like? Call it water reuse, recycling, indirect potable reuse (IPR), reservoir augmentation, even the rather simplistic but catchy toilet-to-tap.
However you label it, the concept is simple: treating sewage to a level that’s cleaner than our current drinking supplies, using the same technology as desalination plus a few steps to make the result even more pure. There has been a huge outpouring of support for taking water out of the ocean and treating it to a level suitable for drinking. But that’s exactly where our slightly treated sewage is currently being disposed of — in the ocean. And make no mistake; our sewage is not treated to federal standards before disposal.
Read more of this opinion piece from the Voice of San Diego by clicking here.
San Diego: Water conservation lags; Rural usage spikes offset urban savings
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 28, 2008 at 10:09 pmFrom the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Water districts in more urban areas of the county such as San Diego, Encinitas and Del Mar made big strides to reduce their use of tap water over the summer. But increased conservation by residents and businesses in those communities was essentially offset by rural districts, where farmers didn’t conserve as heavily from July through September as they had during the first half of 2008.
Overall, the county’s 23 main water districts continue to save more water than they did last year, but their combined conservation rate fell slightly during the summer from 12.8 percent to about 12 percent. And less than half the districts are meeting the regional goal of trimming water consumption at least 10 percent.
The data, provided by the San Diego County Water Authority, compare January through September with the same period in 2007.
The uptick in non-farm conservation gave water officials reason for mild optimism heading into the winter, but it doesn’t change the perilous situation the county faces next year. Water district officials countywide said 2009 is likely to bring mandatory water-use restrictions and higher rates meant to decrease demand.
More from the San Diego Union-Tribune by clicking here.
There is no San Diego River … or is there?
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 23, 2008 at 6:42 amFrom the San Diego Weekly Reader:
San Diego River? “There is no San Diego River,” says Pete Cuthbert. “What you’re dangling your toes in is the Colorado River, the Sacramento River, the Feather River — but not the San Diego River.”
“Not the San Diego River…?”
“No. This San Diego river water is basically runoff from the lawns and cisterns and radiators and factories and gas stations of San Diego, via polluted tributaries like Forester Creek in El Cajon. And we get most of that water from Northern California. Without runoff there would be no river, period. Not at this time of year.”
Pete and I are sitting at an idyllic pond above the Old Mission Dam. It’s a June morning. The day is just warming up. Around us the trees and scrub grow wild and messy, pretty much as they did in Kumeyaay times, I’m guessing. Ten yards to our left, a blue heron stands statue-still on a spit of sand, looking for fish movement. Wouldn’t mind tossing in a line myself. This fresh morning, you feel a bit like Huck Finn heading out for an adventure up the river.
And, actually, that’s what we’re having. We’re setting out to see if this 52-mile-long ribbon of life still has life in it. Or if it has been dammed and developed and poisoned to death by us — the three million people who’ve come here to a semi-desert and expect water whenever we turn the taps on.
Read more of this comprehensive article from the San Diego Weekly Reader by clicking here.
Carlsbad plans water conservation
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 21, 2008 at 6:01 amFrom the North County Voice:
“Without the massive quantities of water that flow daily southward via aqueducts from northern California and the Colorado River, most of southern California would be a dry, brown desert covered in scrub and sagebrush just like it was 100 years ago,” said General Manager Mark Stone of the Carlsbad Municipal Water District.
With southland populations continuing to grow and water coming from the Sacramento region beginning to dwindle in recent years, Carlsbad and other San Diego area cities are searching for ways to reduce water consumption. Recently, the Carlsbad City Council held workshops toward drafting a new water conservation ordinance.
“Our water board staff has been putting together new guidelines on how to reduce our water usage during drought months, and we are in the middle of a drought right now,” said Stone.
“If you look at history, this area was all a desert before it was developed. Carlsbad doesn’t draw water off any local reservoirs. We are 100 percent dependant on water shipped down from upstate. The price of water is going up statewide for everyone,” said Stone.
Read more from the North County Voice by clicking here.
San Diego County facing water rationing
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on October 9, 2008 at 7:30 amFrom San Diego’s Channel 8:
For the first time since the early 1990s, San Diego County is facing the possibility of water rationing, and the threat is expected to loom for years. When you turn on your spigot the water is always there, but water officials say look at their reservoirs across the state and you’ll see we are facing a shortage. Although your water supply seems never ending, looks can be deceiving.
“This is going to be the most serious water issue that we faced in Southern California,” Helix Water District General Manager Mark Weston said. He says severe drought has left Lake Powell and Lake Mead only 50 percent full, Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville are only 25 percent full, which means less water is flowing towards Southern California.
“We have to understand we live at the end of the pipelines and there isn’t enough water,” Weston said.
More from San Diego’s Channel 8 by clicking here.
If mandatory rationing occurs, it will be implemented differently, depending upon the water supplier. More from the Voice of San Diego:
If the call for conservation continues being unsuccessful and mandatory restrictions are put in place, agencies’ strategies for enforcing those measures will vary. Many will turn to financial penalties for excessive use. Homeowners who use water excessively will see a bigger increase in their bills than those who don’t. Rates that would double or triple a users’ typical bill are possible.
“When the rates go way up because we have to use way less, that’s when we’ll see a noted reduction in the use of water,” said Mark Weston, general manager of the Helix Water District, which supplies La Mesa.
Some agencies are planning tougher steps. Mark Rogers, general manager of the Sweetwater Authority, which supplies National City and parts of Chula Vista, said his agency’s board will consider a proposal in December to cap the amount of water it delivers to customers based on their historic consumption levels.
Deliveries would vary from home-to-home and business-to-business, Rogers said. Homeowners and businesses would be allowed 20 percent of the water they used based on a three-year average from 2004-2006. Instead of fining violators, flow restrictors on water pipes would halt deliveries to scofflaws.
Rogers calls it “the adult approach.” He said the agency fears financial penalties won’t dissuade some homeowners from keeping green lawns if they can simply pay nominal fines to continue excessive use.
“We don’t want people to be able to pay their way out,” he said. “I’m not going to tell you how to use your water. I am going to tell you how much you can use.”
Read more from the Voice of San Diego by clicking here.
New Tijuana Sewage treatment plant praised; Flow to river channel to drop; irrigation uses seen
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on September 26, 2008 at 6:29 amFrom the San Diego Union Tribune:
It sits on a hillside miles from San Diego, rising above tightly packed colonias in Tijuana’s fast-growing eastern end. Despite its distance from the border, the new Monte de Los Olivos sewage treatment plant has been drawing applause in California.
Expected to begin operation within a month, the $9 million plant will at full capacity treat the waste of some 265,000 residents to a tertiary level, clean enough for irrigation. Together with a smaller but similar plant, La Morita, set to open this year, Monte de Los Olivos will dramatically decrease the flow of untreated sewage down the Tijuana River channel that leads to the border.
The operation of the two plants also will relieve Tijuana’s main sewage treatment plant, the over-burdened Punta Bandera facility south of Playas de Tijuana. By the middle of next year, officials hope the operation of the new plants will largely eliminate the coastal discharges of untreated sewage at Punta Bandera.
“This project puts Baja California at the vanguard of sewage treatment in Mexico,” Baja California Gov. José Guadalupe Osuna Millán told a crowd of more than 300 gathered for yesterday’s inauguration ceremony at Monte de los Olivos.
Read the rest of this story from the San Diego Union Tribune by clicking here.
Sewage plant likely to be exempt from federal standards, official says
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on September 20, 2008 at 6:42 amFrom the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Although the official announcement is weeks away, California’s top water-quality official for this region said San Diego seems poised to receive a waiver that will allow it to keep running its main sewage treatment plant below federal standards.
The Clean Water Act requires sewage to be processed at the “secondary” level, which removes more solids and other pollutants. In the entire nation, no facility as big as the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant still operates without at least a plan to attain the secondary threshold. San Diego has received two previous exemptions for its Point Loma complex, and it applied for a five-year renewal late last year.
Environmental groups are pressuring San Diego to upgrade the facility so it doesn’t continue to spew what they say are unacceptable amounts of pollutants into the Pacific Ocean.
But Mayor Jerry Sanders said the retrofitting cost – which city officials said could reach $1.5 billion – is unnecessary because the current plant doesn’t harm the marine ecosystem. San Diego probably would have to raise residents’ water bills to improve the facility.
“My assumption is that the city is likely going to operate with the waiver for the next five years and the reissued permit will reflect that. I haven’t heard anything . . . to cause me to think otherwise,” said John Robertus, head of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, which is part of a statewide regulatory system.
Read more from the San Diego Union-Tribune by clicking here.
Farmers prepare for termination of water program
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on September 17, 2008 at 6:22 amFrom the California Farm Bureau Federation:
In a move that will affect crop production across much of the region, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California plans to end its discount program for agricultural irrigation water. The move, expected to be approved in October, will open the door to increased water costs for many Southland farmers. If adopted by the MWD board of directors, the proposal could reduce food production, as farmers struggle to pay higher water costs on top of soaring costs for fuel, fertilizer and other supplies.
Under the discount program, participating farmers now save about $100 an acre-foot of water in exchange for agreeing to cutbacks of as much as 30 percent when MWD water supplies are low. MWD imposed the 30-percent cuts for the first time this year. Non-discount water sells for about $700 an acre-foot through MWD member water agencies.
Discussion about eliminating the program has been going on since the beginning of 2008. “We got grower reaction before this proposal was announced,” said Eric Larson, San Diego County Farm Bureau executive director. “Some of our county Farm Bureau members sat on a committee with MWD staff to help craft this program’s exit strategy. Before the proposed phaseout was sent for review to the MWD board, our own Farm Bureau board considered and approved the proposal.”
Two San Diego water districts plan $200 million aquifer project
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on September 14, 2008 at 7:06 amFrom the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Squeezed by the most severe drought in at least two decades, a pair of water districts in East County is accelerating an unusual plan to generate more drinking water and restore habitat along the San Diego River.
The idea, modeled after a much larger project in Orange County, is to pump purified wastewater from the Padre Dam Municipal Water District into percolation ponds along a portion of the floodplain owned by the Helix Water District. Helix would store the water underground for later use, creating a drought-proof supply of about 5,000 acre-feet a year, equal to about 10 percent of the district’s deliveries. The aquifer also would provide water for trees and shrubs in a stretch of the river that usually is dry.
The Helix board is expected to authorize an environmental review of the roughly $200 million project at its meeting Wednesday. It will probably take 10 years to complete all aspects of the proposal – assuming it passes the review and survives opposition from residents who would have to endure several years of sand mining related to the project.
“Not only are we helping our own district, but we are helping the statewide reliability of the water supply,” said Charles Muse, president of the Helix board. “If we can provide the district with new water, that is water we don’t have to buy from” wholesalers such as the Metropolitan Water District and the San Diego County Water Authority.
Read more from the San Diego Union-Tribune by clicking here.
Temecula farmers water rates to rise; Cost-savings plan to be eliminated in next five years
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on September 14, 2008 at 6:58 amFrom the North County Times:
After 50 years of providing agricultural customers with reduced rates, changes are coming down the pipeline that will likely force growers to pay rates that most homeowners experience.
About 30 farming customers of the Rancho California Water District received news this week that their reduced water rates likely will be phased out by the main supplier of regional water —- Metropolitan Water District —- in the next five years. The change will almost certainly mean customers will see higher prices for regional produce, or a reduction of farming operations.
From 1958 to 1994, Metropolitan Water District provided a 25 percent discount for agricultural customers. Then in 1994, the Interim Agricultural Water Program was established. That program extended lower rates to growers with the understanding that their water supply would come from “surplus” water and could be interrupted when the supplies tightened.
Under the program, agricultural customers pay $394 per acre-foot of water —- $132 less than municipal, industrial and residential customers for the same quantity and quality of water. One acre-foot is the volume of water sufficient to cover an acre of land to a depth of 1 foot —- 325,851 gallons. On average, one acre-foot of water is enough to meet the needs of four people for a year.
Metropolitan Water District provides the Rancho California district with 70 percent of its water. In 2006, more than 7 billion gallons of the lower-cost water were delivered to the local district’s agricultural customers. That “surplus” water is dwindling, however, as Southern California water supplies continue to tighten due to drought and legislative decisions that will restrict the importation of water to regional customers
Read more from the North County Times by clicking here.
Water agency may kill growers’ discount: Metropolitan plan could curb harvest
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on September 10, 2008 at 6:40 amFrom the San Diego Union-Tribune:
The Metropolitan Water District plans to end a 14-year-old program that gives discounted rates to farmers in Southern California. The move is likely to reduce the amount of food produced in the region.
Growers in San Diego County account for about two-thirds of the water sold through the program, which offers lower prices in exchange for supply cutbacks during dry years.
Some growers are willing to pay higher rates for a more reliable water supply, while others – particularly avocado farmers – said losing the discounts will make it hard to stay in business in an era of quickly rising costs for fuel and fertilizer. “I just don’t see how the avocado industry can make it. I have been doing this for 34 years and it looks like this is the end of the road to me,” said Russ Hatfield, an avocado farmer in Fallbrook.
Metropolitan’s board of directors discussed phasing out the program over five years to provide a soft-landing; however a final decision isn’t expected until October:
Jeffrey Kightlinger, Metropolitan’s general manager, said the program for farmers no longer makes sense because the agency would have to impose restrictions almost every year given the drought and other water-supply constraints across California. He said there’s still a future for agriculture in Southern California, but that farmers will have to select only high-value crops – such as flowers and strawberries – to cover their full-price water costs.
Avocado growers face the toughest challenge because they have thin profit margins and typically lack other crop options, Larson said. “When you look at the kind of ground (avocados) grow on – the real steep hillsides – that land will never convert to another ag use,” he said.
Read more from the San Diego Union-Tribune by clicking here.
San Vicente Reservoir’s renovation: San Diego, water agency officials work to resolve concerns
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on August 30, 2008 at 7:24 amFrom the San Diego Union-Tribune:
A massive project to increase water storage at East County’s San Vicente Reservoir has taken on added importance as the region copes with tightening water supplies. Starting Tuesday, the reservoir will close to the public for up to nine years so crews can complete what the San Diego County Water Authority is calling the largest dam raise in the country.
The reservoir will continue to supply water to San Diego residents during construction, though boaters, wake-boarders and water-skiers will have to find somewhere else to go. San Diego city officials have questioned whether the region will have enough storage during the project and whether plans are adequate for maintaining water quality.
City officials say they are working with the water authority to resolve the concerns, and officials from both agencies say having the extra storage will benefit the region. “Once we get past this, these projects will add a great deal of reliability to the city of San Diego but also to the region,” said Jesus Meda, operations and engineering program manager for the city’s water department.
The $568 million effort is part of a $1 billion-plus project by the water authority to create new emergency storage and pipeline connections if the region’s imported water supply is cut off.
Read more from the San Diego Union-Tribune by clicking here.
San Juan Water District announces potential pilot program to transfer water – otherwise unavailable to customers – to pay for infrastructure
Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on August 15, 2008 at 10:20 amFrom the San Juan Water District, this press release:
The San Juan Water District is seeking benefits from dry-year surface water supplies that are otherwise unavailable for customer use. As a party to the Sacramento Water Forum Agreement
(2000), the District will forgo some Folsom Lake water during dry years to benefit American River fisheries, wildlife and recreation. During those periods, the District taps into groundwater supplies and implements conservation measures to address local water needs.Once downstream of the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the District has the right to transfer forgone water for the benefit of its wholesale ratepayers. “We have two choices in dealing with that water,” said Shauna Lorance, the District’s general manager. “We can just let it go with no benefit to our customers, or we can transfer it to other agencies in exchange for resources to fund facilities for dry year water supply reliability.”
Toward that end, the District is entering into preliminary talks with two California water agencies to discuss concepts for a multi-regional water management pilot program. Yesterday, the district’s Board of Directors voted to pursue partnership discussions with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, a Central Valley Project and State Water Project Contractor, and the San Diego County Water Authority.
In concept, up to 7,000 acre feet of forgone water could be transferred by the District to partnering water agencies.Proceeds from those transfers would be used to build dry-year facilities, such as groundwater wells and pump stations, which are needed to enact provisions of the Sacramento Water Forum Agreement. In absence of other revenues, the costs for new dry-year facilities would be passed on to customers through future rate increases.
“It’s still very conceptual, but we think a multi-regional approach will benefit our customers,” said Lorance. “We gain revenues to pay for much-needed infrastructure, and participating agencies increase their ability to meet water demands in dry years.”
The pilot program is consistent with statewide policy that encourages water transfers, conjunctive use and conservation measures to mitigate impacts of drought conditions. State policy also promotes cooperation between water districts to address water shortages. As such, multi-regional collaboration could boost local efforts in securing state bond dollars for infrastructure and system improvements.
“We have a very real need to offset costs for dry-year infrastructure projects,” said Dave Peterson, a
member of the District’s Board. “But, we’re also doing the right thing by helping other regions. The health of Bay-Area and San Diego economies are directly related to the health of our local, state and national economies. We can and must be a part of the solution.”Staff from the three agencies will meet in coming weeks to discuss development of the pilot program and talk with interested stakeholders. If approved, the program could be implemented as early as March 2009 for a one-year period, with options for a longer-term agreement if proven successful.
For more information, visit the District’s Web site at www.sjwd.org.
San Juan Water District is a community services district that provides drinking water to more than 265,000 people in portions of Sacramento and Placer counties. In addition to serving retail customers in Granite Bay, east Roseville, and the northeast portion of Sacramento County, the district wholesales water to Citrus Heights and Fair Oaks water districts, Orange Vale Water Company and the city of Folsom (north of the American River) and periodically to Sacramento Suburban Water District.
For a FAQ Sheet on the program, click here.
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