She’s been a resident of Frazier Park for 50 years and is proud of that fact. Between the two of them, Kitty Jo and Keith Nelson served on the school board, the water board, the South West Healthcare District board and more. Kitty Jo knows how things work.
The Nelsons raised their children here and hold the championship as the longest-running publisher-editor team of The Mountain Enterprise. As it happened, Kitty Jo Nelson sent a letter to the editor this week as we were working on our story about the structural issues of a water system annexation.
She asked what kinds of organizational changes could occur if Frazier Park Public Utility District and Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Company were to merge into a regional water district.
An extraordinary opportunity has been triggered by California’s drought-driven water crisis. This week World Water Day was marked around the globe with declarations of concern about the growing scarcity of clean drinking water and the need for smart, “resilient” infrastructure planning.
World Water Day at home
In the U.S. and California, rhetoric was matched by the budgeting of money to invest in smarter groundwater management.
In our own Mountain Communities, that is exactly what has been going on since 2013.
Preplanning Committee
A preplanning committee was funded by the state to research ways to come to grips with drought through (1) upgrading aging infrastructure to eliminate chronic leaks; (2) putting meters…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)
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Kitty Jo Nelson of Frazier Park
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This is part of the March 25, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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