Turning to its back-up reservoir
Water officials said they’ve had to shut down some of the wells that supply water for home and businesses because they’re drying up.
CBS2/KCAL9’s Laurie Perez spoke to one company that’s turning to its back-up reservoir and warning customers that it can’t last forever.
Mauricio Guardado, the retail manager for the Santa Clarita Water Division, said the time to do more is now.
“We’re in drought conditions of epic proportions,” Guardado said.
SCWD is one of the Santa Clarita Valley’s three big water retailers. They get their water from local wells and imported from the California aqueduct via the Castaic Water Agency, and both sources are running low.
Guardado’s company has had to shut down one of its 15 wells. And they’ve drastically reduced the amount of water pumping into the others from about 900 gallons each a minute to roughly half that.
He said the company, for the first time in nearly a decade, has had to tap into a last-resort water supply: “Our second groundwater storage is rather full and that’s what we’re primarily extracting from to transfer to areas that don’t have enough.”