Comments on: CEMEX Mine Drains Lemon Cove Wells

By: RMA Starts Peer Review of CEMEX’ Stillwell Project | Valley Voice

RMA Starts Peer Review of CEMEX’ Stillwell Project | Valley Voice — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 02:55:47 +0000

[…] This is part two of an ongoing series about CEMEX, water and wells going dry in Lemon Cove. Read part one here. […]

By: Vicky Casey

Vicky Casey — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:03:30 +0000

We have a different situation living north of Visalia all the wells are going dry because the farmers received 0 water so all the water they are using is from the ground. My neighbors well is dry, he is hooked up to our well, this is reduculous and unbelievable.

By: John Dofflemyer

John Dofflemyer — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:09:12 +0000

How terribly sad that nothing has been done to mitigate the impacts of the operation on what was 128 acres of pasture that I irrigated for twenty years while it maintained a standing water level of two feet in the summer and three feet in the winter. I also dug postholes and know first hand. Even the V-ditch, if it were functioning, does not completely mitigate the impacts of the mining.

But sadder yet is the typical inaction of the RMA and the Board of Supervisors while households go without water. There are many solutions and monies set aside in the form of finacial assurances to temporarily alleviate the impacts until our local government can complete its lethargic hand wringing. There is absolutely no excuse to let this situation get so far out of hand.

By: Joseph Oldenbourg

Joseph Oldenbourg — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 16:20:47 +0000

In reply to Exeterite.

You are correct–good call! And thank you. Both the Associate Editor and I failed to notice this. The writer says to convey that she is famous for this sort of thing and that it was my job, as the Editor, to rectify this. She’s right.

By: Exeterite

Exeterite — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 03:21:02 +0000

I believe the writer, in her otherwise excellent piece, intended the opposite of “obviate” in her remark about Martin Rodriguez’s comments to the Board of Supervisors regarding the conditional use permit and its stipulation regarding aquifer recharge trenches. Obviate does not mean “makes obvious” or supports – it means renders pointless, avoids, or prevents.