HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL TO BRING CLEAN WATER TO PIONEERTOWN

Hope springs eternal for the 120 service connections desperate to see clean water piped into Pioneertown. A county board of supervisors’ decision at tomorrow’s 10 a.m. meeting may inch the plan a step closer. Reporter Mike Lipsitz has more…
Far from a done deal, county supervisors are expected to approve submittal of a $2.5 million grant application to the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the Pioneertown Pipeline and Water System Improvement Project. The resolution also authorizes a 20-year Water Exchange Agreement with the Hi-Desert Water District allowing Pioneertown access to groundwater within the Warren Valley Sub-basin. Supervisors are also expected to declare a County-owned Twentynine Palms property at 73658 Old Dale Road as surplus. The site of a former TV station, the property will go up for auction in the event no public agency or authorized non-profit organization offers to purchase the land and 800-square-foot building on it. Tomorrow’s meeting streams online and to the first-floor teleconferencing room in the County Government Center on White Feather Road in Joshua Tree, where public comment may be made via live video link.