santa margarita water district and cadiz

The water district and San Bernardino County approved a comprehensive Groundwater Monitoring, Management and Mitigation Plan in addition to an extensive environmental review process to ensure the project operates as expected and protects desert resources, Miller said. “Independent scientific reviews and an extensive environmental review process determined the Cadiz Project can deliver a sustainable and reliable source of water and will have no significant impacts on plants, animals, surrounding streams and water sources or other natural resources,” said Santa Margarita Water District spokeswoman Michelle Miller in a statement.

The project has been fully reviewed and approved under the California Environmental Quality Act and will serve the water needs of 100,000 Southern California families and generate 5,900 jobs, according to a company statement. It would be a new source of water, officials say, for providers serving the region, and would benefit Claremont-based Three Valleys Municipal Water District, Covina-based Suburban Water Systems, San Dimas-based Golden State Water Co., the Jurupa Valley-based Jurupa Community Services District and the San Jose-based California Water Service Co.

The project would pump water from a remote desert aquifer and ultimately convey it by pipeline to Southern California cities. “Moreover,” Cook said in the letter, “the aggressive project pumping could harm the springs of the Mojave National Preserve and regional air quality, while exporting precious water resources out of San Bernardino County to ratepayers in Los Angeles and Orange counties.”Īccording to a statement from the Los Angeles-based Cadiz, which is heading up the project, “the call for a duplicative federal review is wasteful and unnecessarily undermines the serious efforts of Southern California water providers to safely and sustainably serve the region’s water needs and create local jobs.” Paul Cook, R-Apple Valley, wrote that Los Angeles-based Cadiz’s 50-year project to convey water from the desert is likely to negatively affect San Bernardino County, ranchers, rural communities and other local entities. interior secretary, released Thursday by the National Parks Conservation Association, Rep. held firm Friday in their support of the environmental studies behind a plan to pump Mojave Desert water to Southern California cities, despite a San Bernardino County congressman’s request for a federal environmental review. Officials from the Santa Margarita Water District in Orange County and Cadiz Inc.

Santa margarita water district and cadiz