Santa Clara Valley Water District vote set for Tuesday, other agencies also relaxing mandatory rules
First came a dozen soaking atmospheric river storms. Then a huge Sierra Nevada snowpack, which on Monday was 248% of normal. Now comes drought relief.
Aaron Baker, a chief operating officer of the district, said that the agency wants to make sure that it retains credibility with the public during the next drought by only declaring an emergency when one exists. “They don’t want to be ridiculed,” said Jay Lund, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis.
“We had an extraordinary year in terms of rainfall and snowpack,” said Andrea Pook, an East Bay MUD spokeswoman. “It’s appropriate for us to always be smart about how we use water. But we aren’t in emergency mode.” The largest, the San Jose Water Company, which serves 1 million people, plans to drop its drought surcharges Tuesday, and lift rules that limit watering to 2 days a week, said Liann Walborsky, a company spokeswoman.“We ask people to be water conscious regardless of the drought being declared over,” she said. “We don’t know what next winter will bring.”
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