The Amador Water Agency received approval from the Amador County Board of Supervisors to rezone 80 acres of agency property in the Lake Camanche area. The property, about ¼ mile east of Curran Rd, is the former site for wastewater disposal, which the agency has ceased using for this purpose. The 80-acres, which are surrounded by residential properties, will be split into 2 40-acre parcels, rezoned R1A – single family residential and agricultural.

Neighbors of the property had protested the changes when the county notified them of several easements that the Planning Department had put in place to accommodate access to the new lots. Amador Water Agency General Manager Jim Abercrombie told the supervisors that the water agency did not need or want these easements, and agreed with neighbors that the easements should be abandoned. Abercrombie says that the new lots will go on the market very soon, and that the proceeds from the property sale of former wastewater system property will be used to augment the current wastewater system in the Camanche area.