Helix Water District customers can now go back to watering their lawns three days a week starting April 6. The Helix Water Board voted unanimously Wednesday to halt the two-days-only watering in effect since June 2015, when the state mandated that water districts require their customers reduce use by up to 25 percent. Helix customers […]
/in San Diego County/by Mike Lee /Pomerado News by By Mark Weston Mentioned: San Diego County Water Authority Quoted: Mark Weston
The MWD board is scheduled to vote April 12 on a rate proposal that would increase the cost of treated water for our region in 2017 by 62 percent and increase the cost of untreated water by 12 percent. The district’s public relation’s spin is that the “average” cost increase for its entire service area […]
Ventura County supervisors are opposing a proposed rate change by the giant Metropolitan Water District, saying the measure would undermine conservation and is unconstitutional. Metropolitan now bases rates for water treatment wholly on the volume purchased. The district’s board is set to act next week on separate charges to cover fixed costs of building, running […]
Only a close look at the Middle River revealed anything amiss in this part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Instead of flowing north toward San Francisco Bay, as nature intended, the Middle was headed south. On the other side of Bacon Island, the Old River was doing the same thing. The backward flow of these […]
Helix customers can water three days per week
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby By Karen PearlmanHelix Water District customers can now go back to watering their lawns three days a week starting April 6. The Helix Water Board voted unanimously Wednesday to halt the two-days-only watering in effect since June 2015, when the state mandated that water districts require their customers reduce use by up to 25 percent. Helix customers […]
OPINION: Help Stop Increases in Water Rates
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Pomerado News by By Mark Weston Mentioned: San Diego County Water AuthorityQuoted: Mark Weston
The MWD board is scheduled to vote April 12 on a rate proposal that would increase the cost of treated water for our region in 2017 by 62 percent and increase the cost of untreated water by 12 percent. The district’s public relation’s spin is that the “average” cost increase for its entire service area […]
Ventura County Supervisors Protest Water Rate Change, But Protest May be Moot
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Ventura County Star by By Kathleen WilsonVentura County supervisors are opposing a proposed rate change by the giant Metropolitan Water District, saying the measure would undermine conservation and is unconstitutional. Metropolitan now bases rates for water treatment wholly on the volume purchased. The district’s board is set to act next week on separate charges to cover fixed costs of building, running […]
A Delta Tunnel Project’s Lofty Ambitions Have Been Scaled Back
/in San Diego County /by Mike Lee /Los Angeles Times by By Bettina BoxallOnly a close look at the Middle River revealed anything amiss in this part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Instead of flowing north toward San Francisco Bay, as nature intended, the Middle was headed south. On the other side of Bacon Island, the Old River was doing the same thing. The backward flow of these […]