Residents of Mendocino, California hauling water, filling tanks
8/24/2021 12:00:00 AM
CATEGORIES:
Business & Industry
Relief, Response & Restrictions
Water Supply & Quality
AFFECTED AREAS:
Mendocino, CA
Start Date: 7/22/2021
- End Date: 8/10/2021
Signs around Mendocino plead with visitors to conserve water as its wells run dry. Nearby, Fort Bragg, Mendocino’s backup water supplier, is very low on water as the Noyo River barely flows. Residents and business owners were purchasing water from ever farther away to refill their tanks. Some restaurants were cutting their hours to reduce costs.
Since February, the cost of water has doubled.
Associated Press News (New York), Aug 10, 2021
Mendocino residents and business owners were purchasing water as the town’s groundwater wells ran low. Mendocino’s main water supplier, the City of Fort Bragg, stopped providing water for Mendocino as Fort Bragg had to guard supplies for its own citizens first.
Mendocino leaders have entertained a number of possible methods of bringing potable water into town—barge, railway or even by wine tankers.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat (Calif.), July 22, 2021
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