At the Amador Water Agency meeting Thursday,
General Manager Jim
Abercrombie told Board members that the agency has received a letter from the
attorney for the Foothill Conservancy, threatening to sue the agency if
it moves forward with expanding the size of the pipe in the Plymouth Pipeline.
As is customary with matters of litigation, the board will discuss this in
closed session and no other details were provided. Chris Wright, director of
the Foothill Conservancy says that changing the size of the pipe expands the
capacity of the system from 1065 equivalent development units to 2730 units – more than doubling the amount of
growth possible in Plymouth,
at least as far as water is concerned. Wright says the addendum to the
pipeline EIR that the Water Agency approved does not address the impact of that
additional growth in Plymouth.
Wright told TSPN that the Conservancy is not opposed to the pipeline itself – Plymouth needs the water, he said, but – he says the letter is to let
the Agency know that they are serious about opposing the Plymouth pipeline unless there is additional
environmental review.
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