Amador County – The Amador County Joint Water Committee last week discussed the availability of service capacity in the county, looking at “will-serve letters,” “conditional will serves,” and “letters of water availability.” Engineering Manager Gene Mancebo said a recent extension of current will-serve letters from 2 to 3 years, due to the recession, will add life to those projects. But he said the number of developments that have will-serve letters is constantly changing. Will-serves are promises to give water or wastewater services to properties, the commitments are measured in Equivalent Daily Units. Supervisor John Swift said wastewater rates being unknown is not helpful to getting businesses to locate in Amador County. Katherine Evatt of the Foothill Conservancy suggested that the agency put water and wastewater capacity information into an online data base. County Planner Susan Grijalva said the AWA could check with the county and see if service requests are “even a logical request,” due to costs to connect in some areas. Evatt said the agency “could put requests that comply with the county water element higher on an approval list.” AWA Director Debbie Dunn said the agency could fine-tune the system on “our end.” Grijalva has told people about problems getting water in the Camanche area. People respond to her by saying they should not have a problem, because they have a “notice of availability.” The notice, however, does not commit water service to the letter holder, but rather explains the process in getting a “will-serve” letter. Mancebo said the agency might put a standard comment in the notice that “notice of water availability” letter holders should check back in periodically to see what available capacity actually remains. Grijalva said: “You might want to say it is a race and you may not necessarily be winning.” A report from the county planning department showed Camanche District 11 in March had 3 EDUs committed with will-serve letters, zero conditional will-serves and 291 letters of availability. Camanche District 7 in March had 434 Equivalent Dwelling Units committed with will-serve letters, 53 units as conditional will-serves, and 888 letters of availability. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tuesday, 07 July 2009 00:16
Amador Water Agency
Amador County – The Amador County Joint Water Committee last week discussed the availability of service capacity in the county, looking at “will-serve letters,” “conditional will serves,” and “letters of water availability.” Engineering Manager Gene Mancebo said a recent extension of current will-serve letters from 2 to 3 years, due to the recession, will add life to those projects. But he said the number of developments that have will-serve letters is constantly changing. Will-serves are promises to give water or wastewater services to properties, the commitments are measured in Equivalent Daily Units. Supervisor John Swift said wastewater rates being unknown is not helpful to getting businesses to locate in Amador County. Katherine Evatt of the Foothill Conservancy suggested that the agency put water and wastewater capacity information into an online data base. County Planner Susan Grijalva said the AWA could check with the county and see if service requests are “even a logical request,” due to costs to connect in some areas. Evatt said the agency “could put requests that comply with the county water element higher on an approval list.” AWA Director Debbie Dunn said the agency could fine-tune the system on “our end.” Grijalva has told people about problems getting water in the Camanche area. People respond to her by saying they should not have a problem, because they have a “notice of availability.” The notice, however, does not commit water service to the letter holder, but rather explains the process in getting a “will-serve” letter. Mancebo said the agency might put a standard comment in the notice that “notice of water availability” letter holders should check back in periodically to see what available capacity actually remains. Grijalva said: “You might want to say it is a race and you may not necessarily be winning.” A report from the county planning department showed Camanche District 11 in March had 3 EDUs committed with will-serve letters, zero conditional will-serves and 291 letters of availability. Camanche District 7 in March had 434 Equivalent Dwelling Units committed with will-serve letters, 53 units as conditional will-serves, and 888 letters of availability. Story by Jim Reece This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
