Water District Consolidation Plan Nabs Research Grants
Advocates are using nearly $420,000 in state grants to study the feasibility of a plan to combine Tulare County's Allensworth and Alpaugh Community Services Districts with the Angiola Water District to provide safe drinking water to residents. Elevated levels of arsenic have been found in the well water in the two rural unincorporated communities. Water policy experts say that such consolidations of rural community water districts could serve as a model for other rural communities.
- "Rural Towns Devise Unique Plan To Solve Water Problems" (Yeung, California Watch, 5/14).