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Valley Center Municipal Water District
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Prior to the early 1950s, Valley Center, and much of San Diego's North County, relied on limited local sources of water from surface streams and the underground. In periods of limited rainfall, these local sources were quickly exhausted.
Water is imported into the Southern California region by Metropolitan Water District of Southern California through an intricate system of pipelines, canals, reservoirs and pumps that extend north to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and east to the Colorado River. Water is delivered by the State Water Project from the Delta and through the 444-mile California Aqueduct. The 242-mile Colorado River Aqueduct brings water from the east. Completion of the 1st San Diego Aqueduct in the late 1940s, which crossed through what is now the western one-third of the District's service area, linked all of San Diego County to a then abundant supply of Colorado River water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California via the newly formed San Diego County Water Authority.
In 1954, local citizens took action to secure a more reliable source of water by forming the Valley Center Municipal Water District and joining the San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) thereby gaining access to imported water supplies. The role of the fledgling public agency was to build a water storage and transmission system to take imported water from MWD through the SDCWA's aqueducts and distribute the supply to properties within its service area.
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ADDRESS - View
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P.O. Box 67,
Valley Center,
California,
United States,
92082
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Kathy Stetson
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kathy@vcmwd.org
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(760) 749-1603 Ext. 244
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(760) 749-6343
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