SJWC Monthly Allocation, water/banking roll-over and the long memory of the Internet!

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 shows 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, indicated SJWC. It seems the old methods would also rebate penalties, to the individual customer, if you managed to meet the conservation requirements.

It was also noted by SJWC that the public was strongly opposed? So opposed that no one showed up for the Public Hearing. The Internet seems to have a longer memory than SJWC appears to have.