Monthly Archives: January 2008

Rates Protest Number One Story of 2007!

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Amanda Rice

From last Thursday’s Cambrian: Rate increases: Cambria ratepayers made history in November when they defeated the services district’s proposed rate increase for water and sewage-treatment service. Cambria apparently was the first substantial community to defeat such an increase under provisions … Continue reading →

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Cambria Water Supply Opportunities

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Frank J. DeMicco

CCSD has for years fixated on desalination as the next, best opportunity for a new, supplemental water supply for Cambria. The decisions of this and prior Boards have jeopardized the future of Cambria. Their decisions have put us on a … Continue reading →

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Rates, Rates everywhere, but ne’er a drop to drink

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Amanda Rice

The Cambrians for a Fiscally Responsible CCSD began meeting at Moonstone Beach Bar and Grill in September 2007, just after the Cambria Community Services District (CCSD) proposed a rate hike and sent a letter to all ratepayers. Over the next … Continue reading →

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…And in other communities, new water isn’t desal, it’s old water

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Richard Hawley

From the LA Times: Note: This plant is remarkably important – but not for direct potable supply or population growth control.   Orange County sewage will soon be drinking water A $490-million plant will clean effluent to state standards, then … Continue reading →

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Master Plan?

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Amanda Rice

“I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take the power from them, but to inform them by education” – Thomas … Continue reading →

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2004 Article from Public Citizen – Demand Delay of Desal in Cambria

Posted on January 8, 2008 by Amanda Rice

Found in a google-fest about desal and Cambria. And article from April 2004 on Public Citizen, a National Non-Profit Public Interest Organization. Public Citizen Demands Delay in the Approval of Multi-Million Dollar Desalination Project in Cambria CAMBRIA, Calif.- Public Citizen … Continue reading →

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