Poll ballots go out to Frazier Park Public Utility District customers this week

Public Meeting on
Regional Water District
6:30 p.m. • March 31
Frazier Mountain Park
Community Center

Part Three
By Patric Hedlund, TME

On Tuesday, March 15 Frazier Park Public Utility District sent polling letters with self-addressed stamped envelopes to all its customers.

The very next day the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) said in a public notice: “While the early winter rain and snowpack are promising, this may yet prove to be a fifth consecutive year of drought in California.”

These two events are closely linked. It is because of the drought crisis that DWR, with Governor Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown and the state legislature have come together to allocate hundreds of millions of dollars in state and federal emergency funding to upgrade water infrastructure in the state and to provide incentives for small rural districts like those in the Mountain Communities to join together.

The state’s motive is that the small systems will not…
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Bill Wheeler, Shaun England and Dan Weiner took the FPPUD ballot letters into the post office for mailing on Tuesday.

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