At last week’s meeting of the Landers Homestead Valley Association guest speaker Marina West, General Manager at the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency, gave the audience of nearly 50 people an overview of what the little water agency is doing with the more than $12 million in state grant funds that have come into the district in the last three years.
West said that ultimately, the grants will allow the water agency to realize some long-time goals by creating a number of efficiencies and securing long-term groundwater sustainability.
The first project – now three-quarters complete – is a new production well to replace a failed well near Goat Mountain.
Project two is the physical consolidation of the Goat Mountain Improvement District with the rest of the Agency’s infrastructure.
And project three will see roughly 4 miles of new pipe go in the ground to create an emergency intertie with High Desert Water District as well as facilitate the blending of water from different sources, a practice commonly used to reduce the levels of certain naturally occurring contaminants.
West explained that without the grant funds, the costs of the projects would ultimately fall on the shoulders of the district’s ratepayers in Landers and Flamingo Heights.
