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The Rancho Bernardo Community Council has added its support to a local effort to get the water level in Lake Hodges raised by 13 feet above its current maximum to decrease the potential for wildfire.

A majority of the council agreed at its Sept. 4 meeting to send a letter to the San Diego County Water Authority board expressing strong support for not only restoring the Lake Hodges Dam, but maintaining the lake at a 293-foot operating level “to reduce wildfire risk.”

San Diego residents will soon be getting letters in the mail about a program that city officials say could save them thousands of dollars in pipe repair costs.

While the city is responsible for maintaining water and sewage systems in neighborhoods, the actual service lines that run to individual homes are the homeowner’s responsibility — a fact many residents only realize when problems arise.

Democrats flipped two seats on the eight-member board in charge of making and breaking San Diego’s boundaries, setting up the board for a lot of potential tie votes.

The San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO, is now split evenly between liberal and conservative members just as it’s about to take on two supremely hot topics in local politics: La Jolla’s secession from San Diego and an audit of the San Diego County Water Authority. If a commission vote ends in a tie, the issue fails.

Mum’s the word on the new leader of the country’s biggest water distributor, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.

Last week, Metropolitan’s governing board came out of a closed session to discuss their next leader with no decision to share. Its former leader, Adel Hagekhalil, was brought down by accusations of workplace discrimination.

 Monsoon season is in full swing across the parched Southwest, but it’s the remnants of what was once Tropical Storm Juliette in the Eastern Pacific Ocean that could cause some problems in the western U.S. on Thursday.

It’s been a wet and stormy week across the Southwest, and it’s looking like that trend will continue through at least the end of the week.