At tomorrow’s (November 19, 2024) 10 o’clock meeting of county supervisors in San Bernardino, the board is expected to add funds for one project on the far east end of Morongo Basin, the other on the far west end.
When directors at the Bighorn-Desert View Water Agency meet at 6 p.m. today (October 12, 2024) they’ll be looking at writing off some bad debt.
Today's (November 6, 2024) water roundup features the Hi-Desert Water District's 4 p.m. board of director's meeting in Yucca Valley and the Joshua Basin Water District's 5:30 p.m. board of director's meeting in Joshua Tree.
Last month, the State Water Resources Control Board committed just over $100 million toward construction of the next phase of the Hi-Desert Water District’s sewer collection system. The funding will not need to be repaid, which is good news for Yucca Valley, where the question of how to pay for the next phase of the sewer collection system has remained an open issue.
An ambitious agenda is on tap tonight (October 16, 2024) for Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Water District and down the highway in Joshua Tree the agenda is much the same. The meeting in Yucca Valley begins promptly at 4:30 p.m. while the gavel in Joshua Tree comes down an hour later at 5:30.
Among other items in today's business at the Hi-Desert Water District, directors will hear an update on the expanded use loan program for eligible properties in the Phase 1 sewer program. It looks like those who enrolled in the program and received funds to help pay for their connections to the sewer line, and who have begun repaying those funds with their property taxes will be getting some of that funding reclassified from loans to grants with some money back. Today’s meeting takes place…
On last Friday’s Up Close Show, host Gary Daigneault mediated a forum with four candidates for Joshua Basin Water District’s board of directors. Joining Gary were Division 3 incumbent Jane Jarlsberg and her opponent Ryan Cherlin. And in the water district’s Division 5 incumbent Stacy Doolittle is running opposite challenger Debra Truncale. Joshua Basin Water District Division 3 incumbent Jane Jarlsberg was drawn to Morongo Basin by the lure of affordable housing, that was in 2017. She…
In San Bernardino tomorrow (September 24, 2024) County Supervisors hold their regular twice-monthly meeting at 10 o’clock. Tomorrow’s agenda carries one item of particular interest to anyone who drives Pioneertown Road between the community of the same name and Yucca Valley.
Your Wednesday Water Round-Up is here with agendas and meeting instructions for water meetings around the hi-desert.
Some 175 Yucca Valley properties continue to discharge wastewater on site in violation of the Regional Water Quality Control Board’s septic discharge prohibition. At a hearing in Palm Desert Tuesday, that board escalated enforcement efforts by issuing cease-and-desist orders to three of the noncompliant property owners. The three properties in question, (located in the 6400 block of Linda Lee Drive, the 58700 block of Natoma Trail, and the 6400 block of Ronald Drive) all in phase I of the Yucca…
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