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YOUR COMMUNITY IN YOUR HANDS - YourBayNews.com
May 4 - 17, 2017
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Morro Bay Kite Festival was a delight for young and old last weekend. More photos on Page 8. Photo by Neil Farrell
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Dreadful Days of Dredging By Neil Farrell
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redging operations inside the Morro Bay Harbor Channel have been put on hiatus, after the contractor saw delays for weather, a major equipment failure, the death of one of their men to a heart attack, and ultimately bumping up against the annual snowy plover nesting season. The company, Ahtna Design-build Corporation of Irvine, Calif., got the $4.6 million contract with the Army Corps of Engineers to remove some 280,000 cubic yards of material and deposit it on Morro Strand Beach opposite the high school. That all sounded well and done except that the company had troubles from before it even started. Harbor Director Eric Endersby said they were given the “notice to proceed” from the Army Corps last November and should have gotten started in December. But that was pushed back to January and then it was early February when they finally got going. See Dredging, page 41
Council Balks At New Sewer Rates By Neil Farrell
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issention was in the air, as the Morro Bay City Council got the sobering news on how much its $167 million new sewer plant and water recycling facility will cost residents. A draft rate study indicates that a single family home using just 500 gallons of water a month, would have to pay more than $240 a month for 30 years (a total of about $88,000). That was apparently just too costly to continue down this path. Two motions were passed. The first made by Councilwoman Marlys McPherson directed the staff to assemble a team of “local experts” to review the costs being put out for the project by Black & Veatch, which is doing the more than $700,000 facilities master plan.
See Sewer Rates, page 42
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