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Plymouth Pipeline Work To Begin This Month |
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009 |
 Amador County – The Amador Joint Water Committee went through about a dozen items Monday, among those hearing that the construction company for the Plymouth Pipeline is “on board.” Engineering Manager Gene Mancebo told committee members, Supervisors Ted Novelli and John Plasse, and Amador Water Agency board members Terence Moore and Bill Condrashoff, that the construction agreement had be initiated. Builder Mountain Cascade has a work office are identified and should start “brushing and grubbing” this month and should be putting parts of the pipeline into the ground by March. The work schedule plans for a December completion of the pipeline, which will link the AWA’s Tanner Water Treatment Plant on Ridge Road in Sutter Creek with the Plymouth water facility and storage tank on East Main Street in Plymouth. Mancebo said Mountain Cascade was not yet sure if it will have 1 or 2 crews laying pipe. Discussion included the “Moke River Water Forum,” which AWA General Manager Jim Abercrombie said was not active now, pending a reactivation of state funding. But the forum talks about waters concerns and supplies in Amador and Calaveras counties and with East Bay Municipal Utilities District interests. The committee touched on 1958 water agreements between Amador County and East Bay MUD, which predate formation of the AWA. Moore said “we’re the one’s who seem to roll it up and hit East Bay MUD over the head with it all the time.” He said the AWA should encourage the county to take the lead more in agreement disputes with East Bay. The committee talked about the Wild & Scenic Designation for the North Fork of the Mokelumne River. Pete Bell of the Foothill Conservancy to the committee that last he heard from AWA, its staff was preparing a presentation on the designation, but he said his organization and the agency should meet. Bell said there was still a lot of work for Foothill to do before the issue was taken to the federal level, including speaking about it with Pacific Gas & Electric Company. Bell said they want to “run it by them. The last thing we need is to have somebody like PG&E stand up and say, ‘now wait a minute.’” Story by Jim Reece (
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 27 January 2009 )
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