If it's a core piece of property, we prefer outright acquisition because we can manage it and it has public access. |
If you can reuse it, you're avoiding having to dispose it in the body of water. And you're saving drinking water, so there are added benefits. |
It goes from flooding its banks to getting very low. |
It will require more aggressive conservation and use of reclaimed water . . . |
Our normal watering restrictions were put in place during the severe water shortage of the early 1990s. But over time we have discovered that to water more than twice a week is wasteful and does no more good for the vegetation. So what once were water-shortage restrictions are now regular and in-place year round. |
That's not unusual for a project this size. You have wetlands being impacted. The process is designed [in such a way that] we continue to go back and forth with information until the district has enough information to make a decision on a permit. |
The modification application is under review. That process is sent back and forth until we have enough information to make a decision. |
We're still living off a couple of years of surplus rainfall. We can get through a continued dry spring, as long as the summer rains come when they're supposed to. |
Whatever activities are allowed, they would be fully compatible with protecting the resources. |