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October 30, 2009
October 30, 2009 - November 5, 2009
Volume XII, Issue 32
In This Issue...
State Park Budget Cuts Hit Home
Capitola Says No to Another Rispin Extension Request
Capitola City Manager To Retire
Planning the New Scotts Valley Library
Surfing Comes Home to Boulder Creek
More Trouble at the Brookdale Inn
Loma Fire Contained
VCUM Kicks Off Thanksgiving Food Drive
SV's Red Ribbon Week Promotes Drug-Free Lives
Plaque Commemorates Lime Works
Bounty of Pjs
Water Manager Praises Conservation Efforts
Wells Fargo Gives $24K to Local Schools
Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries
Thirty-Meter Telescope Discussion
Crimebeat
Crime Beat 10/30/09
No Charges in High School Sports Fundraising Money Theft
Environment
Rain or No Rain? Forecasters Don't Know
The Weather Twins
Mark Stone Advocates Banning Single-Use Bags
Newsmakers
Scotts Valley High Haunted Hospital Raises Money to Fight Cancer
New Boulder Creek Business Board Continuing Most Seasonal Events
Monning Holds Office Hours
Redwoods League Announces Grants
People
Scotts Valley Chamber Announces 2009 Honorees
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Water Manager Praises Conservation Efforts
Toby Goddard, water conservation manager of the City of Santa Cruz Water Department, is taking a conservative position regarding what seems to be shaping up as an El Niño winter this year. Winters which have seen the warming central Pacific waters that characterize an El Niño also have statistically higher probabilities of rain in California.

"Weatherwise, there's just no way of telling what this winter will bring," he said. "Our whole approach is to prepare in case there's another dry year."

While much of the torrential Oct. 13 rainfall went into surface runoff, Goddard said that it helped his department in that it brought the Loch Lomond reservoir up to about 97 percent capacity.

However, he cautioned that that reservoir constituted only 20 percent of his department's supply, with most of the rest coming from North Coast stream sources and the San Lorenzo River (about 5 percent comes from underground aquifers, which take months of steady rain to replenish).

To get back to normal, he said it would take 30 inches in town and 50 inches of rainfall in the watershed area around Ben Lomond this winter. However, he was upbeat about the cooperative efforts of residents so far.

"I'd like to offer a big thanks from the Water Department for all the people who complied with the water restrictions and made efforts to conserve water this year," he said.
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