Next Special Public Information Meeting: Thursday, March 31
6:30 p.m. at the Frazier Mountain Park Community Center

Dan Palilla came to the regional water district public information preplanning meeting February 18 with a lot of questions. He has just retired from 30 years working with water supply, he said. It was the first meeting he had attended in this public process that began in 2013, so Palilla expressed concern about the question that most water customers of the Frazier Park Public Utility District consider top priority: How do we know there will be enough water to serve the region that includes both Frazier Park and Lake of the Woods if their water services are combined?

That is exactly the question that Bakersfield Civil Engineer Dee Jaspar was on hand to answer.

Jaspar whipped out his thumb drive to project a map of the Cuddy Canyon Groundwater Basin on the wall in front of…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Dan Palilla had many questions at the public information meeting February 18.

Civil Engineer Dee Jaspar illustrated his talk with a reminder that the Cuddy Canyon Groundwater Basin is divided roughly in to three parts, the west, middle and east sub-basins. The eastern end of the middle sub-basin is constricted by a meeting of the Garlock and San Andreas Faults, which means that water does not rapidly flow out of it into the East Sub-basin.

Even an ample water supply is not adequate for drinking if it has naturally occurring
contaminants (such as nitrates, uranium, fluoride or arsenic) which exceed the state health department’s standards. That can often occur in water from mountain wells. Such water must be treated. Treatment is expensive.

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This is part of the March 4, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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