Santa Barbaraâs Water Outlook Foresees Sufficient Supply to Meet Demands Through Fall 2022 – California Santa Barbaraâs water supplies are on the way to recovery followed by three average or above-average rainy seasons. The cityâs water-supply forecasting shows thereâs sufficient supply to meet demands through fall 2022, while allowing groundwater basins to slowly recover and rest, water supply analyst Dakota Corey told the cityâs Water Commission at Thursdayâs special meeting. The availability of water from Gibraltar Reservoir, upstream on the Santa Ynez River, in the past few years as well as Santa Barbaraâs desalination plant operation and water conservation have enabled [âŠ] Santa Barbaraâs Water Outlook Foresees Sufficient Supply to Meet Demands Through Fall 2022 – CaliforniaHIWI042020-05-25T14:57:14+02:00
As Groundwater Basins âRest,â Santa Barbara Looks to Reservoirs for Future Water Supplies – California This winter has started out as a wet one, but even if the rain tapers off, Santa Barbara can meet the water demands of its customers through 2022 with existing supplies, according to city staff. Itâs been more than eight years since Lake Cachuma filled up and spilled, and groundwater basins all over Santa Barbara County are at historically low levels after being heavily pumped during the long drought. Groundwater well pumps are off to help basins ârest,â and it will take an estimated [âŠ] As Groundwater Basins âRest,â Santa Barbara Looks to Reservoirs for Future Water Supplies – CaliforniaHIWI042019-12-28T14:54:48+01:00
Santa Barbara Close to 2020 Renewable Energy Goal – California With eight months left until the end of the year, the City of Santa Barbara is 8 percent shy of its goal to have half the power used by its municipal buildings come from renewable energy sources by 2020. Since the Santa Barbara City Council committed to the goal in 2017, the city started installing three small scale solar arrays, two at fire stations and the last at the Eastside Branch Library, which began going up only this past week, said Alelia Parenteau, Energy Program supervisor [âŠ] Santa Barbara Close to 2020 Renewable Energy Goal – CaliforniaHIWI042019-04-25T08:29:16+02:00