Joshua Basin Water District’s well 14 is the district’s primary pump, which when it was online, provided 60% of the district water supply. However, it has been offline since February 2016 following a positive test for coliform and the original contractor abandoned the job of trying to clean it up. Since then, the water district has spent about $1.6 million trying to rehabilitate the well. Ernest Figueroa has an update about Well 14…
Recent capital improvement and replacement project activity has shifted from the completed Saddleback Project to the Tilford area pipe and infrastructure replacement, and to the well 14 rehabilitation efforts. Well 14, Joshua Basin Water District’s largest water producer, has been off-line for several years. Efforts to bring it back on-line are now within reach, as state approvals to implement a “Four-Log” treatment system on well 14 have been granted. District crews have been at the site demolishing and removing the well’s outworn pump housing structure, disassembling and removing the well’s electrical panel, and removing other accessories in anticipation of installing new infrastructure.
Quarter million-dollar funding request for a plan to clean well 14. This is the district’s top-producing well that has been offline for almost two years during which time three separate efforts to clean a bacterial contamination have failed. District management remains optimistic that this fourth attempt to rehab the well will be successful.
Three-year, million-dollar effort to bring the district’s workhorse, Well 14, back online — cash continues to pour in, but no water flows out at least for now. (2019)
$442,000 on top of the $1.2 million already spent for continued rehabilitation of the area’s largest producing well. Well 14 was taken offline in the summer of 2016 following a positive test for coliform. Positive tests for the bacteria have continued despite efforts to control it through a variety of techniques, each more aggressive than the one prior. Hopes are that the funds for new treatment and infrastructure approved last night will be the last actions needed to bring well 14 back online. (2019)
