WATER SOUGHT FOR COMPLEXES; CASTAIC LAKE AGENCY SAYS DEVELOPERS WILL PAY BILL.Byline: Jason Takenouchi Daily News Staff Writer 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, already embroiled em·broil tr.v. em·broiled, em·broil·ing, em·broils 1. To involve in argument, contention, or hostile actions: "Avoid . . . in a lawsuit over its last water purchase, has filed to buy more state water for housing developments here. The agency is seeking entitlements for about 9,500 acre-feet of imported State Water Project water for three developments, including part of Tesoro del Valle and a new section of Stevenson Ranch Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. being built by Lennar Homes Inc. The developments are required to have water entitlements for twice their projected demand before they can be annexed into the agency's service territory. The three annexations are the first to be affected by the agency's policy of requiring such entitlements. Agency General Manager Robert Sagehorn said developers will pay the bill for the water. ``The cost of the environmental work and bringing the water to the agency would be paid by the developers,'' Sagehorn said. William Cooper There are several people called William Cooper:
``The concern has been that areas that would annex an·nex tr.v. an·nexed, an·nex·ing, an·nex·es 1. To append or attach, especially to a larger or more significant thing. 2. into the agency would have an effect on water that's been paid for by the local community,'' Cooper said. ``The only fair method is that they bring water to the agency to support their project,'' he said. The largest proposed entitlement - about 7,000 acre-feet of water - is for Phase Five of the Stevenson Ranch development. Lennar Homes spokesman Jeff Stevenson said the roughly 3,500-home, 1,800-acre project is in its preliminary stages of county review. Tesoro del Valle, a project in the San Francisquito Canyon by Evans-Collins Community Builders, has been approved with 1,791 homes. Only a portion of the development will have to be annexed into the water agency's district, and the agency is requiring an entitlement of 2,000 acre-feet. The third proposed annexation annexation, in international law, formal act by which a state asserts its sovereignty over a territory previously outside its jurisdiction. Many kinds of territory have been subject to annexation, chief among them those inhabited by settlers of the annexing power, is Paradise Ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. , an existing mobile home park in Castaic. Sagehorn estimated the development would require entitlements for 500 acre-feet of water. An acre-foot is a little less than 326,000 gallons of water, enough to serve approximately two average-size families for a year. |
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