Montara Water and Sanitary DistrictCandidate for Board Member

I started out volunteering to build the District's web site after working on the Tunnel campaign.  It wasn't long before I was on the board.  Members of the community and the board had been working for years to solve our water problems, and I joined in.  It seemed to take forever, but it's been a dozen years since Montara and Moss Beach took back our water system.  It was in bad shape, but we've rebuilt it to one of the finest in the state.  We've replaced lines, added fire hydrants, built tanks, drilled wells, and much more.  

Our water supply is now so secure that the Coastal Commission and the State Department of Water allowed us to end the practice of putting urban homes on domestic wells.  As further evidence, after four years of drought that forced other agencies into mandatory cutbacks, our all-local water supply remained strong and steady.

Working together we can get a lot done.  We can solve big problems if we put our minds together and stick to it through the difficult passages.  No other community I know has similar outsized accomplishments.  For example, the Tunnel, our water system, along with a number of less known accomplishments like our highly successful, innovate, and inexpensive anti-spill-during-storms efforts.

We've got more to do.  Requirements get stricter over time, and we've been successful at finding and adopting new technology and saving money at the same time.  There's more of that to do.

I've worked very hard to bring recycled water to the Sewer Authority.  It's a smart project, and we are close to being able to build it and finance it with money from the golf courses.  It's a good way to use the water we clean at SAM, it's good for the golf course to have a drought-resistant water supply, and it's good for Pilarcitos Creek to have less fresh-water demand on its sensitive habitat.

Now that our big projects are done and our water system is in tip-top shape, we are entering a new phase to ensure long-term sustainability, a low-turnover workforce, effective management, and cost containment.  I am committed to continue working for you, bringing fresh ideas and hard work to bear for the benefit of our Moss Beach and Montara community.