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California First Snowpack Measures just 3 % of Average
BCVWD is Dependent on Purchasing Imported State Water for 2/3's of their Water Use, YVWD is Dependent for 1/2 of their Water from the State.
In 1993 the City of Beaumont was given permission to build 2,212 houses - provided that the City construct a Recycled Water Facility by 1995 to extend the water supply because THERE IS A LIMITED AMOUNT OF WATER IN THE PASS AREA.
The Pass Area continues to flood the housing market knowing that there is absolutely no water to sustain additional population growth.
Beaumont is so corrupt they no longer even pretend that they're going to build a Title 22 Recycled Water Facility - unless they're talking to the Morongo Tribe.
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If Beaumont is talking to the Morongo Tribe, then the Recycled Water will be ready in just a couple more days - hours even. Just keep holding your breath. The white man would never lie to you, they're your 'friends'.
Beaumont-Cherry Valley Water District has a new Manager that's an Engineer. Dan Jaggers can engineer a hundred ways to get water to the Pass area, but when it comes to paying millions to enact his ways to get water Jaggers proudly proclaims: "I know nothing about money."
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The San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency Manager Jeff Davis tells the Pass Area Water Boards fanciful stories of getting water from Northern California - and it will only cost the water Rate Payers billions of dollars.
Except that there is no water in Norcal to buy or trade or dream about.
Written by Dale Kasler, Reprinted from the Sacramento Bee.
Frank Gehrke, the Department of Water Resources employee who runs the survey, wore simple winter boots as he walked the 200-yard course off Highway 50 to complete the first official snow survey of the season.
When the measurements were done, Gehrke reported the dismal numbers: just 1.3 inches of snow on average, and a “snow water content” of 0.4 inches. That was 3 percent of average for early January.
Overall, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is about 24 percent of normal, based on electronic readings from “snow pillows” scattered throughout the mountains, and Davis and Gehrke expressed hope that the rest of the winter will bring better results.
Although state officials welcome precipitation in any form, they prefer lots of snow because the Sierra can act as a second set of reservoirs, holding water until summer and fall.
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