[env-trinity] Trinity Journal: WCSD board decides against limits on water hauling

[Tom Stokely]

http://www.trinityjournal.com/news/environment/article_b7fb2544-2807-11e4-a0ed-001a4bcf6878.html 

WCSD board decides against limits on water hauling
By AMY GITTELSOHN The Trinity Journal | Posted: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 6:15 am
Presented with varying viewpoints on its sales of water to haulers taking it outside the district, the Weaverville Community Services District Board has decided to essentially keep things as they are for now.
After hearing from the public on the topic Aug. 13, the only change is a new $50 monthly fee for managing the accounts of water haulers and improved tracking of those accounts, said WCSD General Manager Wes Scribner.
With the drought, there have been calls to limit or not provide water to haulers taking water outside the district where it could be used on marijuana gardens.
Directors of Trinity County Waterworks District #1 in Hayfork recently voted to limit sales outside the district to 1,000 gallons a week per parcel.
 But there were also people at the meeting in Weaverville who said the water is not just going to marijuana, Scribner said. “There are a lot of homes out of water.”
“Our board just felt the discretion of where the water was going or what it was being used for was not our jurisdiction,” Scribner said.
The district charges a rate of $2.25 per 100 cubic feet for any truck, water hauler or contractor who rents a meter. That is relatively inexpensive but is more than twice that charged to standard customers, Scribner said.
The trucks will not be restricted unless regular customers are, he said, and so far the district is still far from declaring a water shortage emergency. A Stage 1 emergency would be declared if treatment plants are operating at 80 percent of capacity for gallons per minute treated compared to available supply.
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