The Ramona Municipal Water District board has a new director and has changed its meeting time.
Casey Lynch is replacing Jeff Lawler as the Division 1 director. Lawler served the water district from 2016 and was re-elected in 2020 and 2024. He resigned on Nov. 9 after after accepting a job in Texas, said Erica Wolski, the water district’s general manager.
As the cost of living rises from gasoline to groceries, some South Bay residents say even small savings can make a difference.
Laura and Roberto Leggs of Chula Vista recently enrolled in the Sweetwater Authority’s Water Affordability Program, which provides monthly bill credits to income-eligible customers and seniors. The couple said the savings have helped ease the strain of higher prices for essentials, like gas, food and medication.
If you’re the kind of person who keeps a sturdy umbrella and strong sunblock in your car, you’ve likely had an easy time dealing with our winter weather.
San Diego County has rhythmically moved from periods of heavy rain to stark sunshine and back again.
The Ramona Municipal Water District has created an ad hoc committee to explore the possibility of consolidating with the Ramona Cemetery District.
Erica Wolski, general manager of the water district, said San Diego County Supervisor Joel Anderson and the county’s Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) have expressed interest in a potential consolidation of the two special districts.
Water is a necessity, and one that’s costing San Diegans more over time. You may have already noticed it on your water bill. Rates went up 14.7% this year.
But it’s not going to stop there; another 14.5% increase is scheduled next year, 11.5% in 2028 and 11% in 2029, which adds up to a 62% hike over four years.
If there’s anyone bound to win a garden contest, it would certainly be Janet Chambers. Chambers is the 2025 Vista Irrigation District winner of the WaterSmart Landscape Contest for the design of her front yard. Now retired from her work as an office manager for a small printing broker, she has previously been a garden center manager in Oregon, worked for a landscaper, is a former master gardener and had her own landscape management business in the Bay Area. And, she has an associate degree in horticulture from junior college. But, mostly, she says, these days “I like to just play.”
Chambers and her husband Marc, a retired electrical inspector for the city of San Diego, bought their 1980s home in 2014. Back then, the 30-by-50-foot front yard space was pretty much a thick green lawn with a mature liquidambar tree. The original cement walkway from the garage and driveway leading to the small patio in front of the front door remains. In the squarish garden bed by the house that was created by an angled walkway, there was a seedling fan palm tree — since removed — along with still-intact rose bushes and a hibiscus, along with a collection of smaller flowering plants.
The ongoing anxiety throughout the West over the Colorado River water supply ratcheted up once again as negotiators last week blew through a second deadline in three months to reach agreement on how to divvy up the ever-diminishing flow.
The distance and tensions between the upper and lower river basin states, the latter of which includes California, seem as great as ever. Sounds bad.
Water from the 108-year-old Lake Hodges dam was released into the San Dieguito River to meet safety requirements, the city of San Diego said Wednesday.
The city said recent rain raised the levels of the Hodges Reservoir beyond the 280-foot-elevation threshold set by the Division of Safety of Dams, making the water release necessary. The 280-foot level is 35 feet below the dam’s spillway.
Late this year, drivers traveling westbound along Rancho Bernardo Road toward Interstate 15 might want to find alternative routes to avoid delays.
Up to two westbound lanes of RB Road, just east of the freeway and adjacent to The Mercado, will be closed for work on the Ramona Pipeline during at least a couple weeks between November and January 2027. The exact date is not yet known.
The third and final round of this week’s winter weather will move through on Thursday, bringing more rain, wind, and possible mountain snow.
This round may not have as much moisture, but it will be colder, NBC 7’s meteorologist Greg Bledsoe said. Light to moderate rain will move in on Thursday afternoon. Rain totals will range from about a quarter to a half inch for the coast and valleys, and then about a half inch to an inch for the foothills and mountains.
