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A moratorium on disconnections is set to expire on July 1. (Renee Schiavone/Patch)
CALIFORNIA If there s any measure of additional pain inflicted upon Californians by the coronavirus pandemic beyond unemployment and untimely deaths, it can be partially reflected in the number of unpaid utility bills. As the pandemic intensified so did the number of customers unable to pay for electric, gas, water and services provided by the state s investor-owned, publicly-owned and private utility companies. A moratorium imposed last year by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates many electric and gas utilities, has prohibited the companies from pulling the plug or shutting off gas to customers unable to pay – both residential and commercial.
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors sent a letter to the California Water Resources Control Board on May 4 formally opposing the Shandon-San Juan Water District s (SSJWD) two recent applications for water from Lake Nacimiento and Santa Margarita Lake a move that puts two partners on the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin at odds with one another. click to enlarge File Photo By Jayson Mellom
PRIVATE OR PUBLIC WATER? SLO County sent a letter to the state opposing the Shandon-San Juan Water District s efforts to secure water from Lake Nacimiento and Santa Margarita Lake. In January, the SSJWD, which represents about 135,000 acres of irrigated agriculture east of Paso Robles, applied to the state for up to 28,000 acre-feet per year of mostly overspill flood water from the two reservoirs, wh
Officials in the Golden State have drafted a cease-and-desist order against Nestle for allegedly stealing millions of gallons of water from the forests of San Bernardino. Nestle, which bottles [.]