Some San Diegans who got money from the San Diego County Water Authority for taking out their grass last year are now startled to find they owe taxes on those turf rebates.
And some homeowners only received those notifications a few weeks ago, after they had already filed their taxes.
About half the Sycuan Indian tribe relies heavily on a single groundwater well for water. The whole tribe now wants access to the same water most San Diegans enjoy – Colorado River water, Northern California water and desalinated Pacific Ocean water.
Most of San Diego’s state legislative delegation is pushing a bill that could make it happen. The water could secure the tribe’s supply and perhaps fuel future development, including a new 300-room hotel and possible casino expansion.
A war between the San Diego County Water Authority and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has put ratepayers in the crossfire.
Keith Lewinger, who represents the Carlsbad Municipal Water District on the SDCWA board and is also a representative of SDCWA and on the MWD board, reported Tuesday to the City Council about the ongoing litigation between the two districts.
The issue stems from illegal rate increases by MWD passed onto SDCWA’s customers, Lewinger added. Lewinger said state law is clear and public water agencies can charge no more than the cost of service for any service provided.
The San Diego County Water Authority files its fourth lawsuit against LA-based Metropolitan Water District.
The San Diego Water Authority files another lawsuit over water rates charged by Metropolitan Water District.
The San Diego County Water Authority announced Wednesday they would be filing another lawsuit over rates charged by the Metropolitan Water District, a Los Angeles-based water wholesaler.
According to the Water Authority’s complain in Los Angeles Superior Court, they said the rate structure approved by the MWD board for 2017 and 2018 used the same methodology as costs from 2011-14, which were previously ruled illegal by a Superior Court judge.
The San Diego County Water Authority on Wednesday announced the filing of another lawsuit over rates charged by the Metropolitan Water District, a Los Angeles-based water wholesaler.
In its complaint filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles, the water authority contends that the rate structure approved Tuesday by the MWD board for 2017 and 2018 used the same methodology as costs from 2011-14 that were previously ruled illegal by a Superior Court judge.
Carlsbad, home to one of the largest desalination plants in the world, will buy a bigger share of filtered seawater produced at the plant than other cities in San Diego County under an agreement approved this week.
The Carlsbad City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to sign a 30-year contract with the County Water Authority to purchase an additional 2,500 acre-feet of water annually from the $1 billion desalination plant, which was completed last year and began production in December.
The San Diego County Water Authority Wednesday announced the filing of another lawsuit over rates charged by the Metropolitan Water District, a Los Angeles-based water wholesaler.
In its complaint filed in Superior Court in Los Angeles, the Water Authority contends that the rate structure approved Tuesday by the MWD board for 2017 and 2018 used the same methodology as costs from 2011-14 that were previously ruled illegal by a Superior Court judge.
MWD was ordered to pay $243 million in damages to the SDCWA, which takes in water from various local and imported sources, and distributes it to local water districts and cities.
Twenty-five years ago, the San Diego County Water Authority, the organization that provides water to the region’s 24 water districts, decided its water supplies had become a bit too iffy during a severe drought and set about diversifying its sources of supply.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the county water authority’s main supplier, felt dissed when its largest customer publicly questioned the reliability of its services.
According to a San Diego Union-Tribune editorial, the water authority has been persona non grata with the MWD ever since.
