The Water Bond hasn’t even passed yet and additional water storage is already in the works for Tulare County. A 4,000-acre-foot reservoir is being planned south of Woodlake and next to Lemon Cove where the St. Johns River and the Kaweah River split at a location known as McKay’s Point. An Indian village used to […]
This is part three of an ongoing series about CEMEX, water and wells going dry in Lemon Cove. The next article in the series will feature the arguments surrounding the construction of the McKay’s Point Reservoir. The following is a letter to the Tulare County Planning Commission dated February 8, 1970 concerning Kaweah River Rock […]
Only three members of the Tulare County Board of Supervisors attended their July 29th meeting, so the decision was made to delay a vote on the proposed Elderwood Heights development until their August 12th meeting in Tulare. The full board was in attendance at the August 12th meeting, where they decided to continue the matter […]
For the thirsty community of Seville, its water woes should soon be over. For several years, the community’s well and pump have had problems keeping up with the demands of local residents for water quantity, as well as water quality. Although the county wasn’t looking to get into the water business, the needs of its […]
Not all Tulare County rank-and-file employees got a signed contract at the end of negotiations July 21. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Bargaining Unit 2, comprised of more than 200 county maintenance, construction and custodial staff, is still working without a contract. SEIU bargaining units 1, 3, 6 and 7 just finished five months […]
This is part two of an ongoing series about CEMEX, water and wells going dry in Lemon Cove. Read part one here. At the end of 2013, a row of Lemon Cove homes along the Stillwell Mining Project, owned and operated by CEMEX, started to see the underground water levels drop. By January, several of […]
At the July 29th Tulare County Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisors Phil Cox, Pete Vander Poel and Mike Ennis heard arguments both for and against reversing the planning commission vote to deny the proposed 162-home Elderwood Heights development just west of the City of Woodlake. However, with Supervisors Allen Ishida and Steve Worthley not in […]
At the July 21st Visalia City Council Meeting, the council voted to levy a fine of $29,556 on Abigail Trevino’s residence in southwest Visalia for code and law enforcement violations. According to Tracy Robertshaw, neighborhood preservation manager, Trevino’s case is the exception. “Ninety-nine percent of the time, home owners comply when they get their first […]
On July 21st, the county’s negotiating team and the Tulare County employee’s union signed a tentative agreement for a one-year contract with a 3% raise. The agreement had to be approved by the union members and the Tulare County Board of Supervisors (TCBOS) before the new worker’s contract became official. About 350 county employees voted, […]
This is part one of a two-part series on CEMEX gravel mines drying up neighboring wells. Is anyone grateful for the drought? CEMEX is. Founded in Mexico in 1906, CEMEX, one of the world’s largest building material suppliers and cement producers, runs operations all across the globe. It is conveniently blaming the drought on the […]