![]() ![]() An IRW analysis of state records indicates that state agencies or state-backed bond grants helped support only about 10% of the consolidations.īecause Tooleville doesn’t qualify for mandatory consolidation, it can’t rely on the state for help in its battle with Exeter.īut as recently as three years ago, Tooleville would have been a candidate for the mandatory program, because its water contains high levels of a known carcinogen. ![]() There have been only about 100 consolidations statewide/ since California began monitoring voluntary consolidations in October 2016. But research by the Center for Regional Change at the University of California, Davis, suggests that nearly two-thirds of 450 DUCs in the Central Valley alone would be good candidates. ![]() Officials with the California Division of Drinking Water say they don’t yet know exactly how many of the state’s disadvantaged communities would benefit from consolidation it’s something they’re still in the process of studying. They think it’s OK that the poor people are going to end up paying more for their water so they don’t have to deal with a poor neighborhood.” “It’s that they’re worried that poor people don’t pay their water bills. “It’s not just money,” said Jennifer Clary, a water program manager at Clean Water Action in California, an environmental advocacy group. ![]()
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