The East Bay Municipal Utility District is asking for public input from residents of Alameda and Contra Costa counties for an update of its water supply plan, which is updated every five years.
The plan assesses water supplies against expected water needs for a 30-year planning horizon.
A virtual public comment meeting will be held April 29 and a virtual public hearing on May 11, during the regularly scheduled EBMUD board of directors meeting.
The public can submit comments by May 12 by email to uwmp2020@ebmud.com.
The draft of the plan is available for public review and comment at www.ebmud.com/uwmp. Final versions of these plans will be submitted to the California Department of Water Resources by July 1.
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Your plan should include a desalination plant running all year to keep the reservoirs filled all year. If you count on the weather as you are doing we could all go thirsty.
Would require significant dedicated power source, and the environmentalists would never allow it.
There are also other problems with desalination plants. Like where does the salt go? Where does the water (and power) come from. Too complicated maybe.
Bob & Jojo-
There are currently 11 desalination plants in
California with 10 more in the planning stage.
The Carlsbad Desalination Plant north of
San Diego is producing 50 million gallons of
drinkable water per day. See the attached article.
They say that as technology is advancing the
costs for producing clean water are coming down.
As for the question of what to do with the salt,
we already have salt producing evaporation
ponds on the South San Francisco Bay.
Environmentalists are complaining about them.
We all need salt. A desalination plant would be
another source.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-water-scarcity-increases-desalination-plants-are-on-the-rise
“Too complicated maybe.”
NAW, . . . This is CA, the perfect liberal’ world, there’s solar and wind.
On a calm summer night . . . . . . well, you’ll just have to wait for the sun to come up or the wind to blow to have water to drink.
UNLESS, state legislature passes a law to make the sun shine at night.
The Saudis have run desalination plants for years. If they can do it, California can certainly… well, maybe not.
I always get a bang out of the naysayers who know nothing. I know how to stop forest fire too but there are too many naysayers. Newsom just wasted a billion dollars and it will do nothing. He could hire twenty five thousand firefighters and they still would have to wait until the fire ran out of fuel. Remember last year when Cal Fire would say. “Well we should have this fire under control in three weeks”. Well nothing changes with more firefighters.
Here’s your input: deport illegals who are using and wasting our resources.
Develop a viable greywater reclamation program for agriculture and household irrigation.
Bob-
Central San has had a recycled water program
since the 70’s. They also offer free recycled water
for home irrigation use. You have to pick up the
water at one of their locations. I use a 275
gallon tank to haul water for our trees and plants.
I see many folks picking up smaller amounts too.
https://www.centralsan.org/recycledwater
Stop building more houses!
And having babies!
Illegal aliens: just reproducing the babies Americans won’t.
Stop building more houses…. Cause when you have a limited vital resource you need to encourage growth that requires the use of that resource. Yes, that was sarcasm. This isn’t : building moratorium.
I will only conserve water when all the illegal aliens that are using our resources are escorted back to where they came from.
Outlaw grass lawns for houses within 5 years.
I will not turn my front yard into something that looks like Arizona. I have the greenest lawn in the neighborhood and plan to keep it that way.
I have a theory that turning your lawn into an Arizona landscape actually contributes to producing arid conditions.
Lawns and plants in general expire moisture and oxygen. This is important for the Eco system. I like a naturalized garden, but enjoy all kinds of landscape. Lawns are lovely. Not mine but, he keeps it mowed and weed kindafree. I don’t mind a few tuffets here and there. Just mow over them for that Monet effect. Water in July and August to reduce crunchiness.
Novel idea share: Water less for slower growth.
There is no water shortage, the people up hill from us water their driveway every day. There is always water in front of our drive that I get to drive through.
Sounds to me like their trying to create a forum to ultimately tell everyone they are going to greatly increase your rates under the guise of the need to upgrade the system. The age old bait and switch system still works….
Build less homes? LOL! You think the bulk of our water goes to residential use? Think again.
https://bit.ly/3mLGhUS
And for all the fans of solar power. LOL again.
https://bit.ly/3dhCag8
like others here have said, deport illegal aliens, stop building more homes
A large amount of water is released from the dams every spring to make space for new snowmelt
In drought years they need to not do that……
Unfortunately the goal of EBMUD and PGE and state gov is to drive Marxist policy of forced resource scarcity and higher prices to destroy middle-class
They can’t manage resources and deliver cost-effective services because they don’t want to manage resources and deliver services
They want to control people
Look for “racial equity” measures in the new plan
These will be the excuse given to raise prices
How much water is loss from leaky pipes. Of course instead of updating those they spend their money on this per current job openings:
Special Assistant (Diversity, Equity & Culture)
The annual salary is $150,084 up to $216,780. Initial placement within the range is based upon qualifications. Appointment is typically made at or below the control point ($195,108 per year).
Just don’t touch our reservoir.
Public input ?What a joke .They already have their plan up and running .They don’t care what the public thinks or want . They tells us what we have to do and we obey, as usual .
Mutts April 14, 2021 at 4:32 PM
Here’s your input: deport illegals who are using and wasting our resources.
someone who obviously knows whats happening in the state
thanks mutts for being a free thinking soul with an eye for american citizens and their families …..
unlike the weiner and de slacker and newscum and his aunt and what did harris do for the state ….oh yeah willy brown ….that helped us all how
stop letting dems run us and the country into the ground and with no water to boot
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