By Patric Hedlund

Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Company has been sent a funding agreement for a $250,000 emergency water supply grant. Water Operator Rafael Molina, Jr. said he believes there will be an announcement at the Thursday, Dec. 5, 7 p.m. board meeting.

A $10,000 emergency stipend was allocated earlier for trucking water to fill storage tanks for the virtually dry community. That leaves $240,000 for working with engineers to locate water sources, then develop new wells, said Dave Warner of Self Help Enterprises, who wrote the grant.

Warner confirmed on Wednesday, Dec. 4 that the California Department of Public Health has sent the agreement for Proposition 84 funds to LOWMWC for signing. “The application was submitted in October,” Warner said.

This is part of the December 6, 2013 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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