The Santa Clara Valley Water District has joined the effort
opposing a multi-county tax on Pajaro River levee upkeep.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District has joined the effort opposing a multi-county tax on Pajaro River levee upkeep.
The Water District’s board of directors formally opposed a potential new tax Tuesday by sending a letter to Senator Bruce McPherson and State Assemblymembers John Laird and Simon Salinas. The letter explains why taxing Santa Clara Valley Water District customers for levee maintenance in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties would be unprecedented and unfair.
Santa Cruz County officials want the state to establish a much broader maintenance area that would include Santa Clara and San Benito counties, since water bodies in those eastern jurisdictions drain into the Pajaro. Santa Clara and San Benito counties, however, claim that their water bodies are not the contributing source of the increasingly common Pajaro River floods.
