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Metropolitan OKs WaterFix funding

/in /by /Lodi News-Sentinelby Brian Melley

The large and influential Metropolitan Water District in Southern California has voted to go forward with the WaterFix tunnels plan. The powerful Metropolitan Water District voted Tuesday to pay its share of the $16 billion project to build two massive tunnels to pipe water from Northern California to Southern California cities. The 28-6 vote gives Gov. Jerry Brown’s ambitious project an important boost of support after an influential agricultural group withdrew its backing last month.

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Giant Water District Support Boosts Chances Of Bay Delta Tunnels

/in /by /Courthouse News (As published by SCVNews (Santa Clarita))by Nick Cahill Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority

The Los Angeles-based Metropolitan Water District, the country’s largest water district, on Tuesday cemented support for California Governor Jerry Brown’s contentious Bay Delta water project, agreeing to pay an estimated $4.3 billion, primarily through rate hikes on millions of Southern Californians. The MWD’s decision to fund up to 25.9 percent of the $17 billion California WaterFix, which would divert water from the West Coast’s largest estuary through two 40-foot-wide 35-mile-long tunnels, comes as a boost to a project beset by environmental and financial uncertainties.

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Council Members Urge Action to Stop Hepatitis A Amid Concerns Over Water Quality

/in /by /KUSIby Sasha Foo

The Hepatitis A outbreak is an obvious public health emergency, but what is less obvious to some; it’s also an environmental one. As documented by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Board, many of the county’s waterways show fecal contamination and the presence of Hepatitis A. According to the board, human waste that originates from homeless encampments along creeks and rivers is a major source of the fecal contamination. Two San Diego City Council members recently wrote a joint letter expressing their concern about the effects of the outdoor camps on the San Diego River.

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Support From Giant Water District Boosts Chances of Bay Delta Tunnels

/in /by /Courthouse News Service (Pasadena)

The country’s largest water district on Tuesday cemented support for Governor Jerry Brown’s contentious Bay Delta water project, agreeing to pay an estimated $4.3 billion, primarily through rate hikes on millions of Southern Californians. The Metropolitan Water District’s decision to fund up to 25.9 percent of the $17 billion California WaterFix, which would divert water from the West Coast’s largest estuary through two 40-foot-wide 35-mile-long tunnels, comes as a boost to a project beset by environmental and financial uncertainties.

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OPINION: Opposing the California Water Fix Is Courting Disaster

/in /by /Fox and Hounds Daily

During the recent five-year drought, residents and businesses in Los Angeles were saved from disaster by water that was imported to Southern California from the mountains and rivers of Northern California via the State Water Project and the Metropolitan Water District (MWD). In fact, imported water from MWD is the reason we have averted disaster twice during the last 10 years.

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Downsizing Raised as Possibility as Governor’s Delta Plan Clears Hurdle

/in /by /NBC Los Angeles

Overcoming opposition from representatives of the state’s two largest cities, Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan for a multi-billion dollar fix to the weak link of California’s aqueduct system passed a major hurdle Tuesday when Southern California’s largest water wholesaler formally voted to participate. The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) would provide more than a quarter of the total $17 billion cost projected for what has been dubbed California WaterFix.

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The Water Authority’s Latest Fight Is in Its Own Backyard

/in /by /Voice Of San Diegoby Ry Rivard Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority
Quoted: Mark Muir

Over the past two decades, the fight between the Metropolitan Water District and the San Diego County Water Authority has eaten up the time and energy of countless water bureaucrats and cost water customers across Southern California tens of millions of dollars. Now that fight has led to a rebellion in the Water Authority’s own backyard. As a result, the Water Authority may no longer be able to count on a phalanx of its board members to publicly support the anti-Metropolitan rhetoric and policies that have been the cornerstone of the agency’s ethos for much of recent history.

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Despite Some Opposition from Los Angeles, Giant Southern California Water Agency Approves Delta Tunnels Project

/in /by /The Sacramento Bee

Southern California’s powerful water agency committed more than $4 billion to the Delta tunnels Tuesday, giving the troubled plan a desperately needed vote of confidence. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s board voted to pay for about a quarter of the tunnels project, Gov. Jerry Brown’s $17.1 billion effort to re-engineer the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and improve water deliveries to south state cities and farms. The vote was 69 percent to 22 percent under Metropolitan’s voting system, which gives more weight to the largest cities, with the rest abstaining.

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County Supervisors Join Brewing Legal Battle Against Feds Over Tijuana Sewage Spills

/in /by /Los Angeles Times

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to join the growing legal campaign to force the federal government to do more to stop sewage from spilling over the border from Tijuana that routinely fouls South Bay beaches. “Enough is enough,” Supervisor Greg Cox, whose district includes border region with Mexico, said in a statement. “We’ve exhausted all our efforts to resolve this terrible situation and it’s time we force those responsible to once and for all fix this problem.”

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Effort to Plug Tijuana Sewage Flows Gets $2.1 Million Bump From State Bill

/in /by /The San Diego Union-Tribune

The effort to prevent sewage from flowing from Tijuana into San Diego County got a small boost Monday when Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation to provide about $2.1 million in funds for the effort. Senate Bill 507, authored by state Sen. Ben Hueso, D-San Diego, and Assembly member Todd Gloria, D-San Diego, reallocates one-time funds previously designated for use by San Diego County under the Wildlife, Coastal and Park Land Conservation Act.

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