Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig plans to spend $100,000 of his own district funding to help Shaver Springs deal with its water quality issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The board unanimously approved Magsig\u2019s proposal on Tuesday to study solutions for the water quality issues and to potentially use money set aside for district projects to fund them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The backstory: Shaver Springs residents have reported discolored water, with some of them publicly sparring over the issue with Magsig.\u00a0<\/p>\n
State officials have told the county that the water is potable, but the county has issued water quality violation notices for high levels of gross alpha, uranium and manganese in the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During a board meeting last month, one Shaver Springs resident brought a cup of discolored water that he said was from a tap at Shaver Springs and asked Magsig to drink it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In response, Magsig showed a video of him drinking from four Shaver Springs wells and added that he believes some of the homes have issues with their pipes, leading to some discoloration.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we\u2019re watching: Fresno County staff will study some options for helping Shaver Springs and will bring back a proposal to use $100,000 from Magsig\u2019s district funds to provide immediate relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The four options being considered are distributing bottled water, funding initial engineering and design for a potential water treatment system, repayment of unpaid water related costs and repayment of unpaid sewer related costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next board meeting is scheduled for Oct. 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking further ahead, the county is hoping to come back with a study by the end of the year for a long-term solution for Shaver Spring\u2019s water quality issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
What they\u2019re saying: \u201cThe frustrations of residents are absolutely warranted,\u201d Magsig said, adding that he has heard from residents who have purchased homes in Shaver Springs in recent years and now have to pay back debt that they did not necessarily contribute to.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Magsig said he does not want to do anything that would jeopardize the roughly $1 million that is subsidized by state grants, which could potentially happen if the county starts to cover water costs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He added that providing relief on sewer related costs would be the most likely way to provide immediate relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig plans to spend $100,000 of his own district funding to help Shaver Springs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-488448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}