Two items from the consent agenda of the September 1 meeting of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors have direct local impact. Reporter Dan Stork says one is about a trail project in Joshua Tree, and the other is about bringing water to Pioneertown…
The Board of Supervisors accepted a grant award of $200,000 from the Habitat Conservation Fund to develop a 3.1 mile trail in Joshua Tree. The project will build trails in the “Section Six” area of south Joshua Tree, off Quail Springs Road. The idea is to reduce habitat degradation and promote allowable activities by providing designated parking areas, restrooms, and establish routes of travel around the site. Informational kiosks will be placed along the trail to educate the public on the natural resources of the area, creating an interactive experience with the environment. The area was given over to Community Services Area 20 in Joshua Tree in the early 1960s with the intention of turning it into a community park.
The Board also approved the submittal of a grant application to the State Water Resources Control Board to request funding, in the amount of a bit over $5 million, for the installation of an inter-connection pipeline between County Service Area 70 in Pioneertown and the Hi-Desert Water District in Yucca Valley for the Pioneertown Water Improvement Project. The contamination of local water in Pioneertown by naturally occuring arsenic and uranium is a decades-old problem that the County has had on its fix-it list for many years.
SUPERVISORS OK TRAILS IN JOSHUA TREE’S SECTION 6, PIONEERTOWN WATER INTER-CONNECTION PIPELINE
