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March 16, 2022- OMWD Safety Lunch
Posted on 16 Mar 2022, 11:01 - Category: News
March 16, 2022- OMWD Water Conservation Programs
Posted on 16 Mar 2022, 01:45 - Category: News
February 16, 2022 - Board Meeting
The February 16, 2022, Board meeting featured the Board’s adoption of its annual objectives ranging from initiating new high technology leak detection programs to strategies to minimize operational costs. One specific objective I requested and adopted was studying the District’s unfunded employee pension liabilities and setting specific policies to manage those costs. OMWD is partnered with nine other agencies forming North San Diego Water Reuse Coalition partners in other matters. This successful partnership has resulted in water reuse projects saving millions of gallons of potable water in our community. OMWD staff reported that the Coalition had recently been awarded a $6.1 million grant for North County water reuse projects and that additional grant applications are being submitted. We heard a staff presentation on the Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve and its continued success. The reserve averages almost 120,000 visitors per year. The board also approved a rate adjustment required by increased wholesale water rates. We must continue to press our wholesalers to keep their expenses under control and their rates down, so we don't have to pass them along to you. Finally, the Board held its final public hearing to adjust its Division boundary maps consistent with the 2020 census, and it adopted the new division boundary maps.
You can review past and present Board and committee meeting agendas and background materials online at https://www.olivenhain.com/about-us/governing-board/board-meetings/.
Read More...Posted on 17 Feb 2022, 16:10 - Category: News
January 22, 2022- Olivenhain Reservoir
Posted on 22 Jan 2022, 12:16 - Category: News
January 19, 2022- Board Meeting
At the OMWD’s December Board of Directors meeting, the most important agenda item was a preliminary economic feasibility presentation by consultant Doug Gillingham regarding OMWD’s San Dieguito Valley Brackish Groundwater Desalination Project. Since 2008 the OMWD has been studying the feasibility of this project, which would cost over $40 Million to build. Its purpose, if approved, is to provide OMWD with about 10% of its water from local groundwater found in the San Dieguito Valley. The groundwater is brackish (salty), so it would require desalination treatment and special pipelines before it can be consumed. Whether to proceed with this project is a HUGE Board decision, which likely will come to a decision point in the next 24 months. A full detailed workshop is scheduled for March 30, 2022. I will provide more detail at that time.
Among other meeting items, the Board unanimously supported a resolution directing staff to apply for grant funding to cover the costs to expand parking at the Elfin Forest Recreational Reserve. Due to the reserve’s popularity, especially on weekends, both the primary and overflow lots become full, limiting park use.
You can review past and present Board and committee meeting agendas and background materials online at https://www.olivenhain.com/about-us/governing-board/board-meetings/.
Read More...Posted on 19 Jan 2022, 17:36 - Category: News
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