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The Zone 7 board of directors will make a presentation tonight to separate the agency from Alameda County control.
The proposed move is aimed at aligning Zone 7’s current scope of authority with the actual territory served by enacting a new enabling statute that would clearly establish Zone 7 Water Agency’s operations as separate from Alameda County.
Zone 7 Water Agency currently provides regional flood protection for eastern Alameda County, as well as providing wholesale water to retailers who deliver to over 200,000 people in the cities of Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin and the Dougherty Valley portion of San Ramon.
The realignment, one 7 representatives argue, would rectify this inequity and allow Zone 7 to adopt more streamlined business practices, potentially saving customers money and minimizing future water rate increases.
Zone 7 Water Agency, short for Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, is responsible for providing flood control and water resources to the Livermore-Amador Valley. The district was created by the California Legislature in 1947 and Zone 7, as it is known today, was formed by a vote of local residents in 1957.
Of Alameda County’s 10 active zones, only Zone 7 has its own elected seven-member board of directors.
As the Tri-Valley’s water “wholesaler,” Zone 7 sells treated water primarily to four retail water agencies – the California Water Service Company, the cities of Livermore and Pleasanton, and the Dublin San Ramon Services District. It also sells untreated water directly to agricultural and other customers.
Tonight’s meeting is open to the public and will start at 6 p.m. and the issue of realignment is the only item on the agenda. The meeting will be held at Alameda County Public Works Agency at 4825 Gleason Drive in Dublin, near the Santa Rita Jail.
For more information, visit the Zone 7 Water Agency’s website at http://www.zone7water.com.
Zone 7 Water Agency wants to separate from the county… The people of Pleasanton, Dublin, and Livermore really need to see what is going on here – go to the meeting tonight and be educated!!!Ask yourself why yet another government agency to be created? Is it a power-play of a few or is this good for the people of the valley? Learn, engage, voice your opinion. Water is Power in this age and it is nothing to play with.
Zone 7 is already created as a dependent special district. The agency already exists and has its own separately elected board of directors.
Roz looks to have a point that seams to be inline with what they are looking to do. I get that part of it and I would agree. Is there anything else in play on this that we are not looking at? Would this have anything to do with control of the water rights in our valleys aquifer? I know that they are working hard on reclaimed water systems and that one of the biggest hurdlers for them is the storage of the recycled water. I have a HUGE problem with the injection of recycled water into our aquifer. Water we know now as being safe for drinking could have something in it that we don’t test or know to test for. If we inject this “CLEAN” recycled water into our aquifer and find out later that it’s contaminated, then what do we do? All of our water in the aquifer would be tainted. Our property values and our health may suffer do to the act of one mistake. I’m not saying this is what’s going on but it may be part of the angel.
Although Pleasanton is part of DSRSD, we cannot vote for directors on it. Maybe we need to consolidate some of these districts. If not, we should fix DSRSD the same time as we ‘fix’ Zone 7.
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Zone 7 has a separately elected Board of Directors, but residents of Dougherty Valley, who get their water from Zone 7, cannot vote for those directors as long as Zone 7 remains part of the Alameda County Government. See my latest blog on this meeting in the San Ramon Express. http://www.sanramonexpress.com/square/index.php?i=3&d=&t=1536
Dougherty Valley residents can vote for directors of the Dublin San Ramon Services District (DSRSD) because it is a special district that operates across county lines. San Ramon residents, who get their water from Zone 7 via DSRSD, deserve the right to vote for and serve on the Zone 7 Board of Directors too.
Other cost savings could be realized for water users in San Ramon and Alameda County by making it easier for Zone 7 to hire new employees or make purchasing decisions without going through all the Alameda County bureaucracy that they are required to do now.
Roz Rogoff
San Ramon Observer
San Ramon Express