Reso 0014-01/1956 RESOLUTION NO. XIV
RESOLUTION OF tHE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE
SAN MARCOS COUNTY WATER DISTRICT REQUESTING
THAT THE BUENO COLORADO MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT
RECOMMEND THE IMMEDIATE CONSTRUCTION OF A SECOND
AQUEDUCT AND ADEQUATE STORAGE FACILITIES.
WHEREAS, the corporate area of the San Marcos County
Water District is located entirely within the Bueno Colorado
Municipal Water District and its sole source of water at the
present time is such water as it can purchase from the Bueno
Colorado Municipal 'Nater District, and
WHEREAS, the Buene Colorado Municipal Water District is a
Member agency of the San Diego Water Authority and as such is
entitled to purchase Colorado River water from the San Diego Water
Authority, and
WHEREAS, the transmission and storage facilities of the
San Diego County 'Water Authority are not adequate to meet the
present demands and needs of its member agencies, and it is going
to be necessary to construct additional facilities for the trans-
portation of Colorado River water from the West portal of the San
Jacinto tunnel to San Diego County, and
WHEREAS, the representatives of the Authority have publicly
stated that it will take at least five yeats to design, finance,
and construct a second aqueduct, and
WHEREAS, in June, 1954, the Authority staff submitted a
report to the Board of Directors of the San Diego Water Authority,
stating that the facilities of the Authority would be inadequate
to meet the needs of the Authority members in the year 1960, and
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WHEREAS, it is now evident that the present needs of the
Authority members for the first ten months of 1956 exceed the
estimated demands of the Authority for the year 1959, and
WHEREAS, Colorado River water in Northern San Diego County
up to the present time has only been delivered to a small portion
of the lands which are entitled to receive Colorado River water,
but by reason of the construction and installation of new facilities
capable of serving large areas with Colorado River water that hereto-
fore have not taken or used Colorado River water it is reasonable to
believe that the demands for 1957 and 1958 will far exceed those
estimated by the Authority staff for said years, and
WHEREAS, the San Marcos County Water District is going to
expend approximately one million dollars to construct water distri-
bution facilities in its area during the year 1956, and
WHEREAS, it is reported that because or the inadequacy of
the Authority's transmission facilities Bueno Colorado Municipal
Water District will not be able to obtain sufficient water to meet
the estimated demand of approximately 12,000 acres of its total
47,000-acre area,
NOW, THEREF0RE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Directors
of the Bueno Colorado Municipal Water District by appropriate
action recommend and urge the San Diego County Water Authority
(a) to immediately re-evaluate the report rendered to the Board
of the Authority in June of 1955 by its staff, and the report of
the Board of Engineers employed to review the staff's report,
(b) to immediately do any and all acts required to insure the
holding of an election not later than December of this year
authorizing the creation of a bonded indebtedness in an amount
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sufficient to defray the cost of constructing adequate water
transmission and storage facilities; (c) to instruct the staff
of the Authority to immediately commence the physical preparation
of plane and specifications for said facilities; (d) and to urge
the Bueno Colorado representative on the Board of Directors of the
Authority to do everything possible to insure the holding of an
early election, and the immediate preparation of plans and specifi-
cations by the Authority in time that actual work on the construction
of said facilities can be commenced not later than May of 1957, and
so that said facilities can be actually constructed prior to January
of 1959, and
The Secretary is hereby instructed to forward a certified
copy of this Resolution to the Board of Directors of the Bueno
Colorado Municipal Water District, and a copy thereof to the San
Diego Water Authority.
I, Anna D. Charitch, do hereby certify and state that
I am the duly appointed,acting and qualified Secretary of the
San Marcos County Water District and the Board of Directors thereof,
and that the foregoing Resolution is a true and correct copy of
the Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors of said San
Marcos County Mater District at an adjourned meeting held on
January 18th, 1956.
Secretary of the Board of
Directors and of the San Marcos
County Water District.