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While I absolutely agree with Sen Runner about capturing rainfall, the projects should have been started years ago. Land use in water re-charge ares should have been curtailed to reduce flooding and promote ground water re-charge. Permeable pavement should have been required in parking lots, cisterns should have been required and slopped lots to capture rainfall. We asked for such things for many years. The response from the Council and Supervisors was that development was more important, permeable pavement cost the poor developers too much money, etc. Now everyone is hurting from lack of water and ir may be too late to institute these simple land use requirements in many areas. We’ll see if Vista Canyon, that builds completely in the flood plain and narrows the river will cause flooding. It will be interesting.
Actually, collection of rain runoff would be invaluable rectifying our present drought considering almost all is already lost to the ocean.
Why though do we turn to federal and state governments asking them for answers, when we should be presenting them with solutions?
Here are some of mine from a non-water engineer:
Re-direct water to the depleted underground aquifers. If we get some of our water from them, we must be able to put some back.
Make sure all reservoirs and lake receive runoffs and are filled to capacity. Castaic Lake, Van Norman Lakes Reservoir, San Luis Reservoir (where I believe Santa Clarita receives it’s water) can all use a few more drops.
Fill all water tanks (they’re all over our community on tops of hills) to the brink.
Tax incentivize home collection from gutters into barrels.
Use our collective ingenuity to bring ideas forward, and not just look to government for answers. Rain water going into the ocean is a waste, so let’s work together to reclaim Mother Nature’s essence of life.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
There are two policies that need to change. First is fire protection. Allowing forrests to burn creates heating od the soil and the dead olants can not reduce our carbon footprint. The second is water ownership. Rain water is not the governments property. If so, there needs to be accountability to the public