Special Community meeting for water customers of Cuesta La Honda Guild

March 5, 2009          7:00  -  8:30 pm
Cuesta Clubhouse   -   120 Scenic Drive, La Honda

There will be a special community meeting for customers receiving water service from Cuesta La Honda Guild on March 5th.

Dear Guild Water Customer,

As you learned in previous mailings, we are tight on water supply this fall. The flow in Mindego Creek is too low for us to divert water from that source on October 1, which we typically do to recharge the reservoirs after the long summer. This means that the water remaining in the reservoirs, together with the flow we are able to divert from upper Woodhams Creek are our only sources of water until the winter rains restore flow to Mindego Creek. Based on historic patterns of water demand, Woodhams flow, and estimated evaporative losses, we predict that we will run through the reserves in the Upper and middle reservoirs in mid December.
 

The San Gregorio Environmental Resource Center will host a community meeting Thursday, September 25th, at 7 p.m. at the Cuesta La Honda Guild clubhouse.

This meeting will get into specifics of proposed field studies as part of the watershed assessment. Plan to attend this meeting to help direct the progress of this watershed project.

ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION

- Sediment and Water Quality Monitoring
- Hydrologic Modeling
- Research and Field Studies for this year
- Low Stream Flows - Potential for Offstream Storage

Please plan to attend!!

The Guild submitted formal written comments on the Clos Del La Tech Draft EIR to the county this afternoon. Two documents were submitted: A cover letter which summarizes the main issues of importance to the Guild, and a full set of comments based on legal and expert advice which provides detailed comments on the EIR.

The following statement was the basis of the oral statement presented to the San Mateo County Planning Commission at the public hearing on August 27th.

Cuesta La Honda Guild

Public Statement on Clos Del La Tech Draft EIR

Good morning. The Cuesta La Honda Guild would like to thank Lisa Grote, Mike Schaller, the county planning staff, and also Supervisor Rich Gordon for your hard work on this issue over the past four years.