HomeMy WebLinkAbout61-236REQUESTING THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION TO
REQUIRE THE ~ETERING OF ALL WATER SERVICE
CONNECTIONS IN THE ORANGE COUNTY SANTA ANA RIVER
BASIN
WHEREAS, the Orange County Santa Ana River Basin is the area
of most rapid population growth in the State of California; is a
water-deficient area with a long history of overdrafting its under-
ground water reservoir; is an area that has pioneered the importation
of water for replenishment of its under ground basin, together with
importation of vast quantities for day to day consumption; and is an
area of uncontrolled growth,not only in the twenty-three cities, but
in districts and other unincorporated areas, resulting in multiple
water service entities in some instances under management that has
disregarded orderly development and has bled off cash revenue in
excessively high salaries and operated without regard for the present
or future welfare of said Basin area; and
~EREAS, this critically water-short area can no longer afford
to allow operation without reasonable regulation or in disregard of
reasonable regulations and can no longer afford to allow large numbers
of unmetered water connections which must be subsidized to a substan-
tial degree by the other water users of basin water.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City
of Santa Ana that said City Council hereby petitions and requests
the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California to require
and to enforce its requirement that all water utilities pumping water
from the underground basin in the Santa Ana River Valley in Orange
County, California, under the jurisdiction of said Public Utilities
Commission, forthwith provide and install approved recording water
meters on all service connections, and that said public utilities
deliver water through said meters only at rates approved by said
Commission upon the basis of the vol~e of water served as a means of
preventing the wasting of water extracted from said basin.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED: That the Clerk of the Council shall
send a Certified Copy of this Resolution to the Public Utilities
Commission o~ ~n~ ~c~ o~ ~alifornia.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana
at i=s regular meeting held on the 2nd day of October, 1961.
ATTEST:
~LER/< OF~ T~{E- dOm~CIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF SANTA A~A )
SS
I, 1,~RION SUTTNER, do hereby certify that I
am the Clerk of
the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the foregoing Resolution
was regularly introduced to said Council at its regular meeting held
on the 2nd day of October, 1961, and was at said meeting regularly
passed and adopted by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES,
NOES,
ABSENT,
COUNCILMEN:
COUNCI~4EN:
Royal E. Hubbard, Henry H. Schlue%er~
Dale H. Heinly, Bob Brewer, A. A. Hall
None
COUNCILMEN: None
dI~.RK OF T~E COUNCIL
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