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Overestimation of Ventura River/Foster Park Wellfield Water Supply
By Daniel Cormonde
Ventura Water admittedly continues to wrongly overestimate the 2020 and 2025 amount of water available from the Ventura River and Foster Park wellfield. Water rights do not equate to water availability. Plans and data are being based on 1993 information which has been overcome by events and has become outdated.
Foster Park Wellfield Restoration Project.
a. At 3:00 minutes into to discussion of the Water Commission 10/27/2015 Agenda Item 3, Slide 30 of Foster Park Improvements, the Assistant General Manager of Ventura Water, Joe McDermott states[1]:
“…..One of the main reasons why the Comp Plan, CM Master Plan and even the 2015 Comprehensive Water Resources Report, we do show the 4,200 and 6,700 acre-feet per year, we have to. We start showing those numbers as zero we basically ….. we are in the middle of a lawsuit., people want us out of there, you can imagine you know not only going in front of a judge and he looks at the Comprehensive you don’t lose water you only show about…..water so, we really have to show what we believe is our water rights so, whatever its optimistic or what you want to call it we can’t show numbers what are less than what we believe we are trying to get, if that makes sense? Umm, Back in time, can’t do it, at some time five years from now we give up and we’re to have to go to desal probably and its very expensive and if you’d rather not do it if we have the fight for what we believe are our water rights…..”
b. A summary of the elements of the $22.8M Proposed Foster Park Wellfield Production Restoration project is shown in Figure 1. Details of the $22.8M proposed project appear to be inconsistent with the $28M Foster Park Wellfield Restoration CIP Project which describes only one well and does not describe any embankment protection.
Figure 1- Proposed Foster Park Wellfield Production Restoration
Additional details (Water Commission 2015 10 27 Agenda Item 3 Slide 30) and audio
http://citizensjournal.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/102715MeetingRecording30.wma
are attached.
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Daniel Cormode
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Daniel Cormode is a Ventura resident
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