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Cambria Continues
Water Conservation Streak With Another Record Low
by Jack McCurdy
Cambria, CA – The
Cambria Community Services District today reported water production
totals for July 2014, showing another sharp drop in usage from prior
years and historical averages.
Water production at CCSD wells during the month, normally the
highest-usage time of the year, totaled 42.82 acre-feet. This was the
lowest July total in CCSD records, which go back to 1988. Read More
Morro Bay Water Odor,
Taste Strike Out
by Jack McCurdy
Morro Bay was hit earlier last month with an upsurge of elevated bad
taste and odor in city water used to drink, wash, or irrigate.
But the "musty and/or earthy taste and odor" in the water reportedly
had "greatly diminished" by the middle of last week due to carbon
treatment of state water by the Central Coast Water Authority (DDWA),
which provides that water to Morro Bay and other local communities that
also may have experienced the same water problems. Read More
New MB Water/Sewage
Plant Delayed
by Jack McCurdy
Morro Bay is faced with urgency to create a new source of community
water as state water supplies are drying up fast, but it is taking time
to decide how, when and where to develop that invaluable new source as
a state drought spreads and the state calls for sharp reductions in
water use by cities like Morro Bay. The City Council is looking at a
range of options to get more water locally, but it is taking more time
than expected to fill the city's needs because alternatives now include
the city's own water reclamation facility as well as a regional project
that may save money but take longer to develop than can be afforded.
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Diablo Canyon Nuclear
Plant on the Brink
by Jack McCurdy
The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant may be on the brink of closure after a
top Nuclear Regulatory Commission executive, who has been lead
inspector at the plant, called for a shutdown of the plant until its
safety status can be determined. He did so in a report to the
Commission that had been kept secret by the agency for more than a year
until it was leaked and widely circulated last week, prompting calls
for the plant to cease operations and planned hearings on the status of
the plant by a Senate committee. Read
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