CHALLENGERS LOSE BIDS FOR AREA WATER BOARD : INCUMBENTS UNITED ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.Byline: Daily News A team of challengers united by their ties to local environmental issues failed to shake the incumbents from their three seats on the Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency's board. Final election results tallied Wednesday showed incumbent board members Bill Cooper, Jerry Gladbach and Jim Gates soundly defeating challengers Joan Dunn, Lynne Plambeck and Merry Farmer in Divisions 1, 2 and 3. The challengers' charges of poor fiscal management apparently went unheard by voters, who in the case of Gates vs. Farmer, favored the incumbent with more than two-thirds of the vote. Gladbach vs. Plambeck was similarly a landslide landslide, rapid slipping of a mass of earth or rock from a higher elevation to a lower level under the influence of gravity and water lubrication. More specifically, rockslides are the rapid downhill movement of large masses of rock with little or no hydraulic flow, . Cooper vs. Dunn was the closest race, with Cooper winning only 19 percent more of the vote than his challenger. The 11-member board runs an agency that imports, stores and distributes state water to four water companies in the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . The Castaic agency has come under fire in recent months for cost overruns Noun 1. cost overrun - excess of cost over budget; "the cost overrun necessitated an additional allocation of funds in the budget" cost - the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor in building the multimillion-dollar Rio Vista Rio Vista may refer to:
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