Douglas Deitch
Pogonip Foundation
501 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, California, 95060
(408) 476-7662
www.pogonip.org
JUNE 17, 1998

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
County Of Santa Cruz
701 Ocean Street
Santa Cruz, California, 95060

REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION 

Re: SETTING PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER DECLARATION OF GROUNDWATER EMERGENCY IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY 

June 16th, 1998
Board of Supervisors Meeting

Dear Members of the Board,

On June 16, you considered the matter of the setting of a public hearing on declaration of a water emergency, though only in the Pajaro district. This was in response to Supervisor Almquist's recommendation contained in his June 12th letter. By my letter to you of June 15, I recommended to you that a county-wide water emergency instead appropriately should be considered, in addition to other measures. Supervisors Wormhoudt, Symons, and Belgard joined in opposition to taking any action.

On behalf of my organization and the people of this community, I request that you reconsider your action on this matter. The setting of a public hearing to consider declaration of a groundwater emergency, according to county codes, must be accomplished in the present circumstances where there has been a prima facie demonstration of groundwater overdraft exceeding the safe yield, as has been presented to and accepted by you, as you did in your June 9 actions relative to the county water report.

What you choose to do as a result of the public hearing is your business. However, the fact that the public hearing occurs in these circumstances to give opportunity to the people of this community to hear and to air all their facts and opinions about this important matter is our business. That date in September would still work fine for me.

Thank you for your reconsideration of this matter.

Respectfully,

Doug Deitch