At tomorrow’s 10 a.m. meeting of county board of supervisors in San Bernardino, the board will consider a temporary solution for properties in Little Morongo and Pioneertown where the piped water is unsafe to drink. Assignment reporter Mike Lipsitz has details …
On tomorrow’s consent agenda, county supervisors will likely authorize submittal of a grant application to the State Water Resources Control Board to cover the costs associated with providing bottled drinking water to 102 active connections in Pioneertown and 74 connections in Little Morongo. The move comes in response to tests that show both systems continue to exceed maximum contaminant levels – arsenic, fluoride and uranium in Pioneertown, and gross alpha and uranium in Little Morongo’s County Service Area W-4. All the contaminants are naturally occurring. If approved, weekly deliveries of bottled water are expected to reach affected customers the first week of August. The plan would provide a half gallon of drinking water per person daily for the next three years, or until County Special Districts can put into place a more permanent solution. Tomorrow’s meeting, and every board of supervisor’s meeting, streams online and to the first floor teleconferencing room in the County Government Center on White Feather Road where public comment can be made via live video link.
The county’s challenge to provide safe water to these communities has been stymied for years, in large part because the small number of service connections make the costs of providing water infrastructure unfeasible.
COUNTY SUPERVISORS TAKE UP UNSAFE WATER IN PIONEERTOWN AND LITTLE MORONGO
