San Jose Water Company has said that customers were strongly opposed to basing the monthly water allocation, on a user's actual historical use. So I decided to do a bit of research on the last drought 1988-1992 or so and try to find out what were the standards used and if they were different from their current filing. It was also said banking would cause weeks or months delays.
I found the following:
SAN JOSE WATER COMPANY CITY OF SAN JOSE 2040 GENERAL PLAN WATER SUPPLY ASSESSMENT June 2010
Appendix B, attached to the June 2010 document, SJWCs' Water Shortage Contingency Plan (January 1992) has some interesting information.
The highlighted section there was an allocation by customer, rather than the average use by all customers, as currently proposed. SJWC representatives indicated it would take weeks or months to implement?
The water banking if you used was again a difficult item to implement. Would also rebate penalties if you managed to meet the requirements.
It was also noted by SJWC that the public was strongly opposed, during the 1992 drought? So opposed that no one showed up for the Public Hearing. The recent Public Hearing had a reported 350 customers/ratepayers attending and speakers took 3 hours of Q&A time.
The attendees made many comments on the unfair basis of customers average vs. actual historical customer usage.
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