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June 18, 2008
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Water district warns: Cut back now: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is working on line that supplies water to most of Orange County.
The Orange County
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Water district warns: Cut back now: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is working on line that supplies water to most of Orange County.
The Orange County
By Eugene W. Fields
Repairs to an important regional pipeline serving 12 million people in Orange and Los Angeles counties has caused the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to ask consumers cut back on the amount of water they use for the next two weeks.
Metropolitan Assistant General Manager and Chief Operating Officer Debra Man said the water district is repairing its Sepulveda Feeder pipeline in
The 45-mile-long underground line of pipeline, stretching from Granada Hills in the
"We are asking that people be especially cautious with their water use beginning June 21 through July 2, when we expect to have the pipeline back in service," Man said.
Residents are asked to postpone washing vehicles (except at commercial car washes using recycled water); irrigate lawns and landscaping only on alternate days; take shorter showers and delay using dishwashers and washer machines until there is a full load.#
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/water-pipeline-district-2070567-orange-people
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A new plan the Merced Irrigation District recently put into effect limiting transfers of water from one grower to another met with resistance at the district's board meeting Tuesday morning.
"You are keeping water from growers when we need it the most," said Enzi Sansoni, a
The new plan will not allow a grower with land that has not been irrigated for the past four years to transfer his allotment to another grower. This change was made on top of cutbacks announced earlier this year.
Growers have been cut from 3 acre-feet per acre to 2.5 acre-feet because the district, like the rest of
Sansoni said that he and other growers, who were at the meeting but didn't address the board, are not happy with the new plan.
"I'm looking for water wherever I can find it. This is going to be a problem," Sansoni said.
Suzy Hultgren, a board member and a grower, said that water was allocated according to usage for the past four years. If a parcel of land hadn't been irrigated during that time, the district counted it as still having no water.
The district's policy is that growers can transfer water from one grower to another, but only if the land had been irrigated at some time during the past four years.
Sansoni also said the MID is running groundwater pumps 24 hours a day, and that is affecting the deep wells on which some farmers rely.
Growers also are worried about the fact that last year, the MID cut off water to farmers early, then turned around and sold water to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The MID sold 25,000 acre-feet for $3.5 million in 2007.#
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/332533.html
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