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Allen Peterson <aspfarms@yahoo.com> Friday, May 29, 2020 1:54 PM Josh M. Weimer Recycled water
Hello Josh, I am responding to the plan of putting recycled water from the city of Turlock In the Ceres main canal. I have several concerns about this. My first concern is related to overall water quality and testing of this water. Do we have complete testing of this water for all contaminants that may be present in this water, how often will it be tested and what happens when something goes wrong and we have a discharge that doesn’t meet the proper standards. Another aspect of the water transfer is the additional 13,000 acre feet of well water that will be pumped into the canal’s. What will the quality of that water be and has TID identified what canals will be impacted by that water, will there be more well water with possible salts adding to this recycled water? There are crops that have already had damage from salts on the lower ends of these canals from pump water, especially in the drought years. I think this recycled water should be diluted as much as possible and I would recommend if this moves forward that we pipe part of this recycled water to lateral 5 and divide it proportionately to the amount of water that is flowing in these canals. Because well and recycled water will be put into the lower ends of these canals it is not equitable across the district. We pay fees that are equal across all of the TID acres and what is received in return is not. I do not feel that there is enough benefit from this small amount of water to offset the liabilities unless we are in severe drought conditions. The other option for dealing with this recycled water would be to sell it out of the district. I feel that this could be a slippery slope in the future. It is so important to keep our district water in district because this water producers income for our farmers which in return supports the city and county. If we did sell this recycled water I would want to see safeguards in place so that additional water was not in jeopardy of being sold. Thank you for considering my ideas and let me know if there’s anything I can do, Allen Peterson Sent from my iPhone
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