County Largely Disagrees with Grand Jury’s Finding on Drought, Water Sources
As the Orange County Board of Supervisors looked to submit its responses to this year’s slate of Orange County Grand ...
Tag: South Coast Water District
OC Grand Jury Report on Drought Conditions Endorses Doheny Desalination Plant, Calls for New Water Sources
In the Orange County Grand Jury’s recent report on the state of water in California, the group called for new ...
OC Grand Jury Says County Needs Consolidated Approach to Water
Orange County needs a unified approach to water conservation, development of new supply and infrastructure and drought preparedness as California ...
A Day Without Water: SCWD Continues Push for Self-Reliant Water Sources, Desalination
By Lillian Boyd How long could you last if water supply was cut off in the event of an emergency? ...
Election 2020: Five Candidates Running for Three Seats on South Coast Water District Board
By Lillian Boyd This year could be the last at-large election for South Coast Water District (SCWD). The SCWD will ...
Guest Opinion: Partners Like You, in Times Like These
By Dennis Erdman Water is, of course, a most essential service. Daily, our teams continue to perform their duties of ...
Worth One’s Salt: Proposed Doheny Ocean Desalination Project Jumps EIR Hurdle
By Lillian Boyd South Coast Water District General Manager Rick Shintaku recalls the California drought from 1987 to 1992 as ...
SMWD Certifies San Juan Creek Watershed Project
By Shawn Raymundo Plans to capture stormwater runoff by installing rubber dams at San Juan Creek will move forward, as ...
Litigation against Moulton Niguel Comes to an End
By Lillian Boyd According to a settlement agreement released on Monday, May 20, Moulton Niguel Water District has agreed to ...
City Manager: Water Transfer Negotiations with SMWD Progressing
By Shawn Raymundo Ongoing negotiations with Santa Margarita Water District (SMWD) to potentially take over San Juan Capistrano’s water and ...
The Big Dig: Trampas Canyon Reservoir to Serve as South County’s Largest Water Project
By Fred Swegles On 177 acres situated between San Clemente’s Talega community and Ortega Highway, mountainous earthworks are taking shape. ...
City to Negotiate Water Transfer with Santa Margarita
The city of San Juan Capistrano will begin negotiating the transfer of its water utilities with Santa Margarita Water District. ...
Tapping Out: As the city draws closer to annexing its water utilities, community voices begin to ring louder in council’s ear
By Shawn Raymundo The San Juan Capistrano City Council on Tuesday, Feb. 5, opted to table a decision on which ...
City Council Expected to Select Water Agency for Negotiations
By Shawn Raymundo The City Council could make a decision to enter into exclusive negotiations with one of the agencies ...
Guest Opinion: California WaterFix Critical to South County
Megan Yoo Schneider By Megan Yoo Schneider The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is 435 miles from South Orange County, but the ...
