The
Community of Yucca Mesa will receive no benefit from the water treatment
plant or sewers. Ames Basin residents should not be forced to pay for
the construction and/or services for a facility benefitting only the
Town of Yucca Valley.
HDWD's Sewer Master Plan, Section 2.1, page 2-1,
submitted to LAFCO under #3140 says:
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"The District is divided topographically into the Yucca Valley area in
the south and the Yucca Mesa area in the north. The Yucca Valley and Yucca Mesa
areas are separated by the Sawtooth Mountains which lay generally east-west
through the center of the District."
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Section 2.2 says:
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"The District’s service area covers two distinct
drainage areas. Of these, groundwater quality is currently a concern only in the
more populated Yucca Valley drainage area. Due to the low density of development
and minimal use of groundwater for potable purposes in Yucca Mesa. A sewer
system is not proposed there. If in the future groundwater quality impacts arise
due to the use of septic tanks, a separate sewer system and treatment facility
would be constructed. This Master Plan, therefore, addresses the wastewater
collection requirements only for the Yucca Valley drainage area."
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So, you see, the HDWD acknowledges the Mesa really is a separate community. The
HDWD Board is strongly
encouraged to create two separate billing/accounting areas within the District:
Yucca Valley Area and Yucca Mesa Area. In this way each area would pay the costs
associated with their area. It is only fair.
Yucca Mesa and a portion of Yucca Valley
have their
own water source ... the Ames Basin, while Yucca Valley’s water source is the
Warren Basin. Accordingly, the Ames Basin should not have to pay for the water
treatment plant or sewers in Yucca Valley.
Further, we are satisfied with the Hi-Desert Water District supplying our
water needs and do not want the District to be municipalized by the Town of
Yucca Valley.
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