Shareholders Discussing Crestview Mutual Water Co.
President Frank Mezzatesta will be writing a message to shareholders on the back of every monthly invoice. In his first one, he writes about “optimal number of wells.” He explains that we need two working wells to produce enough water in the hot dry season to meet household and irrigation … Read more
Today we found the following notice on the Crestview website:
… Read moreOn January 30th Crestview’s Well #4 was taken offline due to an electro-mechanical problem with the pump. In the meantime, Well #6 is supplying water for all our shareholders with no issues. We will need to pull the pump that
The SAC will have its first meeting Friday afternoon to review the Ad Hoc Committee’s draft criteria for eliminating unsuitable sites from detailed evaluation and for more detailed evaluation of remaining sites. We hear there are 21 or 25 nominated sites, but the SAC will not get the list until … Read more
You can still vote for directors until July 7. You can vote even if you were not at the meeting, and it does not matter if you submitted a proxy. Without your ballot, there may be no quorum and no decision. To get your ballot, call 805-482-2001 or email crestviewwater@live.com… Read more
It is not true that any board candidate opposed Well #7. Crestview was not forced to import water because a County permit for Well #7 was denied in September 2021; the cause was the board’s bad decisions about Well #4, which went dry a month earlier.
Mr. Chooljian’s letter, which … Read more
The board has asked shareholders to reduce consumption by 20-25% immediately so that Crestview will not have to buy any imported water this year. By avoiding imported water, we will not have to comply with State-mandated conservation measures like watering only once weekly. However, the critical Well #4 pump-lowering project … Read more
The Crestview board delayed for four years lowering the pump in Well #4 just so they could say we needed Well #7 because Well #4 was “going dry.” That cost us about $365,000 extra in 2021 to buy imported water that Well #4 would have pumped with a lower pump.… Read more
A delay in the Well #4 project will probably require Crestview to start buying this month imported water that costs ten times as much as pumped water. This can be avoided only if shareholders immediately get on board with Crestview’s new mandatory conservation plan. Let’s all adjust our sprinklers … Read more
The general manager’s report for the March 31 board meeting says a supplier backlog has delayed the Well #4 project. Testing has been rescheduled to May 23. That may not be soon enough to avoid the need to switch to expensive Calleguas water.
Crestview has received a report on preliminary … Read more