Last week we blogged that Navy and Irvine Ranch Water District (IRWD) officials had declared Irvine's drinking water safe at a presentation before the Orange County Great Park board--despite an acknowledged polluted plume under parts of the city and its source, the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station base that will become the Great Park. The Navy is in charge of cleaning up that plume, coordinating with the IRWD.Resident Marsha Taylor was watching that presentation from home on the loca
The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board today fined Orange County's Santa Margarita Water District $133,190 for two spills that flushed 857,934 gallons of shit into San Juan Creek and Cristianitos Creek.
The water district - Orange County's second largest, serving more than 150,000 residents and businesses in Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Coto de Caza, Las Flores, Ladera Ranch, and Talega - falls within the northern part of the San Diego region's boundaries, whi
Terry Teri Sforza blogs on the Register's OC Watchdog that the cities of Laguna Beach, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano, as well as the El Toro, South Coast, Irvine Ranch, Moulton Niguel, Trabuco Canyon and Santa Margarita water districts, may secede from its northern partners in the water-importing Municipal Water District of Orange County to form its own South Orange County water authority. The confederacy claims the mega-district spends too much money, does not pay enough attention to
