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The tract is 16,000 acres stretching west from Ione in far western Amador County. And, when East Bay Municipal Utility District officials pitched the dam idea April 23 to Amador Water Agency commissioners in Sutter Creek, Tom Swett, manager of the 16,000-acre tract near Ione, was there. "He just sat and listened," said AWA Commissioner Debbie Dunn. In addition, Amador County supervisors, in rejecting the dam idea, nevertheless agreed that "water for the west county" is needed and that EBMUD likely would play a part in bringing it. EBMUD's concept for an expanded Pardee has existed since the late 1990s. Greenrock Holdings LLC of El Dorado Hills bought the 25-square-mile ranch in 2006. However, Bill Bunce, managing partner in landowner Greenrock, said developers never tied together the two ideas - building on Rancho Arroyo Seco, with water to come from an expanded Pardee Reservoir. According to Bunce, the Pardee idea played no part in Greenrock's decision to buy the ranch, nor did company officials attempt to advance the dam idea within EBMUD decision-making. "We first learned of the Pardee expansion idea when the details started to emerge a couple of months ago," Bunce said. "We have not evaluated the merits of the Pardee expansion." EBMUD general manager Dennis Diemer and director of water and natural resources Alex Coate said they had never heard of Rancho Arroyo Seco, or Greenrock or Bunce. Some water sources are scattered around the ranch property. No projects are proposed for the property now. Bunce has said the partnership has no intention on building out the entire tract. But it is generally believed that, sooner or later, applications will be filed for substantial residential subdivisions on a significant amount of the property. "If we ever need more water, we plan to request it from the Amador Water Agency, since we are in their service area," Bunce said. "We would expect AWA to do everything it can to secure maximum water rights for the long term benefit of the county. Water rights are potentially very valuable and can be a benefit to the county, financially and otherwise, in the years ahead." AWA general manager Jim Abercrombie said the agency's tools to achieve greater service capacity are increased consumer conservation and efficiency of use, more use of recycled water and some yet-unspecified surface-water supply project. The AWA board opposes the latest Pardee proposal. Bunce said nothing should be read into the presence of Swett at the AWA meeting where EBMUD pitched the Pardee idea. "Tom grew up in Amador and is now our ranch manager," Bunce said. "He attends many public hearings in the county on a variety issues, from water hearings to city council meetings to county hearings." 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