willytinawin wrote:From their website:
Local Supply Facts
About 95 percent of DWA water is pumped from deep wells located throughout the service area. The other 5 percent is mountain stream water from Snow Creek, Falls Creek and Chino Creek.
DWA pumps using 25 active wells into the water system with six pressure zones—which includes about 22,000 active services throughout 369 miles of pipeline and serves about 71,000 people. The agency utilizes 28 reservoirs with the capacity to store 59 million gallons.
Annual production for DWA is about 43,000 acre feet (more than 14 billion gallons) annually.
The agency replenishes the groundwater with water from the State Water Project. Because there is no direct pipeline from the SWP to Palm Springs, the agency exchanges water with Metropolitan Water District. Replenishment water comes from the Colorado River Aqueduct. DWA uses the water from two connections to fill recharge basins, located at Whitewater and Mission Creek.
From 1973 to 2008, DWA and CVWD have replenished the groundwater basins with more than 2.1 million acre feet of water at Whitewater River and Mission Creek subbasins.
The agency also gets water from mountain streams including Chino Creek, Snow Creek and Falls Creek.
DWA gets about 3 million gallons a day from stream supply and about 78 million gallons per day in well capacity.
DWA works hard to ensure the purity of this water by carefully monitoring and controlling the quality of water that we supply to our customers.
Well-trained DWA employees provide information, service hook ups and emergency assistance in the case of accidents or other problems affecting service to our customers.
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It's pretty much what I thought, the main source of their water supply IS the aquifier. That means that those houses at the end of Snow Creek Road are haveing a far greater impact on their water supply, and that their response to hikers is greatly exaggerated, ie "over the top". Furthermore, they DO utilize Chino Creek, which means that every time someone parks at the Tram lot and takes a long piss over the edge before going up to the valley station, well, thier piss is going into the DWA water supply. Why no uproar about the Tram parking lot and all their trash, piss, etc.?
Like I said, this is all a moot point.
What part of Private Property do you and others not get.... regardless what, why, when, where, how etc.
All the above and any other sematical debates are completely moot to the point.... stay off their land. It only makes things worse for those that may start communicating with senior DWA officials and attempt to work something out.
This issue touches home as this same semantic bending attitude pretty much screwed away all in process ACCESS contingency efforts by local ACCESS and Climber orgs, of which I was spearheading last fall, in a local Inyo County PP area. The owner got sick and tired of chasing off climbers etc and repairing damaged signs and fences. He finally said enough is enough and told the BLM and myself, NO more. Stay off my land. The local County Sheriff is well aware of the situ, will arrest and prosecute to the fullest extent, all trespassers.