County supervisors have OK’d a development in northern Canyon Country that would include hundreds of homes across the freeway from the site of a proposed Cemex gravel mine, despite warnings that a local utility may not be able to supply water…
“It’s a little bit discouraging they keep ignoring us,” Newhall County Water District President Lynne Plambeck said Wednesday. “I’m really concerned as to how we’re going to provide people in that area.”
Between the large amounts of water that the planned Soledad Canyon open-pit Cemex mine would use, and the exceedingly low rainfall, groundwater supplies for the proposed Spring Canyon project aren’t likely to get better, Plambeck said.
In addition, environmentalists are saying such a development would ruin a wildlife corridor and cut animals off from the Santa Clara River, which itself could be damaged by the project.
The 542-home development approved by supervisors Tuesday would sit north of state Route 14 and Soledad Canyon Road, between Shadow Pines Boulevard and Agua Dulce Canyon Road. Its construction would require the removal of four oak trees, and it would accommodate two park lots, three open-space lots, and space for a sheriff’s substation and a fire station.
Plambeck said local groundwater supplies may not be sufficient.
Three of the four local wells owned by Newhall County Water District don’t work, and there isn’t enough pipeline capacity to provide state water to the community, Plambeck said.
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