NCSD Conflicting Comments
11/15/1995 Item 5)Supplemental Water Item audio tape
Doug Jones: " will tell you one thing, We have a well site in Santa Maria basin if we went out and started drilling down there, you know the first thing they would cry, hey were in overdraft and we can't export water. That's the first thing they will do because we can export water if we are not overdrafted. And I know they will do that." audance: Why don't you do that, there is some water down there. " Doug Jones: "That's one of the options we have" Audio
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7/27/2005 E-3) Supplemental Water Policy Discussion Item audio tape
Mike Lebrun, Urban Pumping has caused this imbalance ... "we have as the board understands the right just to pump the excess water if these developments are done by the formation of mutual water companies, that can be done in a manner that puts their right above the districts right to pump groundwater .... the districts right is a junior right to landowners, but it is some right to pump groundwater" Audio
Mike Lebrun, "We are talking millions, six million to build this section of pipe to Santa Maria" Audio
Mike Winn: "I must protest, we are a planning agency, we are a planning agency, we are not simply a water supply agency. In the old model CSD's were not planning agencies, they were simply, you put in the pipes, you supply the water, shut up and we will make the plans. That's not the legal situation we are in today, the state legislator in 2000 changed the rules we don't plan what size houses, we don't plan density in some respects, but we are a water planning agency, and part of our powers, which we must exercise for the people here. We can regulate the pace of growth. Not just the fact that we have got enough water so everybody else can build. It's not in our interest to give up our planning powers to county planning and simply say, it's them, it's all them. It’s us too, we are equal partners with them, and the state law now runs parallel process for each of these, water planning and land use planning. And they run in parallel and they have to certify back and forth at each level. And I think we, we fought hard to get those powers and to get the ordnances here in place so we can exercise them, we don't sell out." Audio
Ed Eby: "I take exception to something that was said today about the, stipulation requires the purveyors to bring in supplemental water, The stipulation does not require us to do anything. The stipulation says we, the NCSD contemplates bring in water and therefore the purveyors will buy that water from NCSD. There is nothing in the stipulation or any court order that says we are required to buy supplemental water we are contemplating it, we are doing that on our own volition, we are not doing that on court order. There is no court order or decision that says we have to get supplemental water. We are contemplating it because it is in the best interest of our customers " Audio
Mike Lebrun, "It will be the basin management committee, there's no limitation of the amount of supplemental water we might actually have to bring in, in order to protect and maintain the basin health.In the stipulation there is a 2500 Af number then it's a more or less as the basin management committee defines or requires and that will be based on monitoring, actual water levels, It is important for us to understand that." Audio
5/15/02 Mike Winn: We know this basin is not in serious trouble. Audio
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10/16/07 SLO BS comment by Mike Winn on desal being the only long term option
Mike Winn: Video
“But the ocean for us represents the only long term sustainable drought proof water supply that we can get. State water allocations are iffy. You know the smelt decision have reduced the deliveries. We don’t know if those are going to be sustainable in the future. The others, where you take water and you sort of move it around, you have a finite amount within your basin and when its utilized to it’s full maximum it’s over.”
