www.camrosa.com
WaterSmart Rebates
To encourage water conservation,
Camrosa continues to work with
Metropolitan
Water District to
distribute rebates
on a variety of indoor and outdoor
products, including high efficiency
washing machines, toilets and rotating sprinkler nozzles. Estimate your
potential rebates at www.SoCalWaterSmart.com.
Rate Increase/Bill Calculator
New rates based upon the recently
completed rate study will be
effective July
1st. Use the ‘Bill
Calculator’ under
Customer Services
at Camrosa.com to
estimate the cost
of water under the
new rate structure.
Save $ with Free Sprinkler Nozzles
While supplies last, save up to 30%
on your
outdoor
water use!
Camrosa is
one of four
local water
agencies participating at www.
freesprinklernozzles.com. Watch
a short video to determine which
sprinkler nozzles you need before
getting a voucher for up to 25
free nozzles.
Camrosa Board of Directors
Division 1
Al E. Fox
Summer 2013
Desalter Construction Marks Next Step In
Building Local Water Supply
Southern California’s water supply comes
in large part from the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta, which is fed by snowfall in
the Northern California Sierra Nevada.
Unfortunately, for reasons enumerated in
the news and past issues of the Camrosa
Independent, there is a great deal of
uncertainty about snowpack levels, rainfall
and the sustainability of
exporting Delta water to
Southern California. This
underlines the necessity for
Camrosa and other local
water districts to continue
to build local resources, an increasingly
important tenant of Southern California’s
water supply. This has been Camrosa’s
mantra for decades as we have focused on
transferring demand off the potable system
and developing drinking water sources.
dependence by nearly 1 million gallons a day
(MGD) – about 10% of the District’s potable
demand. Completion is expected around
February 2014.
Interagency Partnerships
The Round Mountain desalter will tie into
Calleguas’s $83-million Salinity Management
Pipeline. The SMP will stretch
from Simi Valley to Port Hueneme,
carrying the brine by-product of
the desalination process out to
sea. Camrosa may participate in
another desalination facility, the
interagency Regional Desalter, which would
also tie into the SMP. The Regional Desalter
will have the capacity to produce up to 5
MGD (7,300 AF/Y) of
drinking water, Camrosa’s
portion of which would
reduce imported demand
by another 10 percent. In
an agreement with Thousand Oaks, Camrosa
recently secured for a term of 40 years the
water in Conejo Creek, which provides 4,500
AF/Y of non-potable water for irrigation. “continue
to build local
resources”
Round Mountain Desalter on its Way!
Construction has started on Camrosa’s
Round Mountain Water Treatment Plant,
which will be capable of producing 1,000
acre-feet a year (AF/Y) of potable water.
The desalination facility will remove
chlorides and other salts from groundwater,
making it suitable for drinking and
irrigation. Initial estimates are the desalter
will reduce expensive imported water
Camrosa’s initiatives work toward increased
self-reliance in order to minimize the impact
of imported water rate increases and provide
our customers with an uninterrupted, safe,
and affordable water supply.
Division 2
Jeffrey C. Brown, VP
Division 3
Timothy H. Hoag
Division 4
Eugene F. West, President
Division 5
Terry L. Foreman
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Summer ‘13
Value
of Water
Tap water, an integral part of our lives, is not only valuable, but also inexpensive when
compared with bottled water:
Gallon of Bottled Water Case of Bottled Water
Your Tap Water
$1.39/gallon
$7.99 for 35 16.9 oz bottles
$.0036/gallon
At less than a penny per gallon, tap water is a bargain. This is especially true when you
consider the costs of maintaining infrastructure, electricity/energy, water quality testing
and treatment, and the delivery that goes into bringing a safe and reliable water supply to
your home – plus of course, the cost of developing new supplies.
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Dry Conditions Fuel Fires, Raise Question Of Drought
What happened to the rain, the snow in the Sierras, the lovely
green hills we enjoyed towards the end of 2012? The blackened
hills off the 101 are a stark and local reminder that we are
experiencing a very dry year; corroborated by the Department
of Water Resources May 2nd report that the snowpack water
content is only 17% of normal. Yes – seventeen percent. So while
it rained throughout November and December, the snowpack
was wiped out by an extremely dry January through March.
This underlines the importance of water conservation and the
need to protect and build local water resources. As detailed in
this issue’s main article, Camrosa is focused on developing local
alliances and resources to minimize our dependence on regulatory-restricted and expensive imported
water. In the meantime, we appreciate your water awareness and attempts at conservation.